William Oscar Johnson

After 18 years as a globe-trotting SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writer, William Oscar Johnson has come in from the cold. Trading his trench coat and portable typewriter for a desk, a swivel chair and a row of newly sharpened...

When Julia Lamb signed on as a copy girl at SI in 1962, she could have had no way of knowing that, two decades later, we'd be sending her back whence she'd come.

HEROESSir:In his article What's Happened to Our Heroes? (Aug. 15), William Oscar Johnson wrote, "The American sports fan really does not care very much whether jocks misbehave," as long as he has his tickets. Not...

Senior Writer William Oscar Johnson has a line in his piece on the Sunfish, which begins on page 74, that the boat was designed "to do nothing but make people happy." The craft has succeeded beyond its creators'...