Les Richter

As a member of a nowhere team settling for mediocrity, was Gretzky wrong to want to play for a contender?CHRIS LAUGHMAN, SHIPPENSBURG, PA.

No longer content to let prize pupil Denis Hulme lead their blitz of the Canadian-American racing series, New Zealand's Bruce McLaren took charge of the season's biggest event before a swinging California crowd

•Steve Belko, Oregon basketball coach, discussing 7-foot sophomore center Mel Counts of Oregon State: "He's a real good center, and you could cut him in two and he wouldn't make a bad pair of guards."