Hugh McIlvanney

THE JOYNERSKenny Moore's story on Jackie and Al Joyner (Ties That Bind, April 27) is a keeper. I intend to save it so my boys can read it when they are older—to reinforce the idea that success is not something you...

Hugh McIlvanney, who writes about British heavyweight boxers in this issue (page 26), is undeniably a heavyweight himself among British journalists. This year the 52-year-old Scot was voted Britain's Sports Writer of...

Playoff payoffs are a cinch for Brooks and Vida, and Ron Fimrite assesses their confrontation, while in the stormier National League William Leggett surveys the battlefield.

In his book The Unquiet Grave, British Author Cyril Connolly looks briefly at his own mind and compares it to a temperamental automobile that has to be "revved up, slowed down, choked, fed various types of fuel"...

Division leaders, those Knicks and Bucks are also likely NBA playoff finalists. Peter Carry covers a week in which they meet each other as well as some mutual opponents.