Shane Gould

BOATING—The 62-foot sloop RAGTIME edged defending champion Windward Passage to win the 27th Transpacific Yacht Race by the closest margin in the history of the event. Ragtime crossed the finish line at Diamond Head,...

COLLEGE BASKETBALL—The U.S. college all-star men won three games in China, and the women from John F. Kennedy College dropped three as West met East in Peking (page 12).

The Munich tabloid referred to Mark Spitz last week as Mark , which may not have any special ring in the original but translates into the well-nigh perfect nickname of Mark the Shark. As Spitz emerged the hero of...

Two-Time champ Nebraska hopes to make it three—and who will prevent it? The college football issue answers with its Top 20, plus the roundups and a new look at an old Bear.