October 29, 1973 | Volume 39, Issue 18

This summer English cricket suffered its most disastrous defeat. At the same time the game reached its highest level of popularity since World War II. The visiting West Indian test (international)...

5—Manny Millan22—Neil Leifer23—Walter Iooss Jr.24—Neil Leifer (2), Fred Kaplan-Black Star25—Fred Kaplan-Black Star (2), Walter Iooss Jr.26—Fred Kaplan-Black Star, Neil Leifer (2), Herb...

Bonnie Bolognese, 17, a senior at St. Pius X High in Pottstown, Pa., bowled a 665 series of 285, 166 and 214 in a sanctioned league at Jay Lanes and set two women's house records. Her 665 series...

PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: The defending champion Knicks were grossly guilty of inconsistency in Madison Square Garden, walloping the Buffalo Braves 117-91 on Tuesday, then being bulled over 85-69 by...

Sirs:Barry McDermott's article (Oct. 15) was about as together as Nate Archibald is in his life—on and off whatever court, an NBA floor or a playground in the Bronx. In the world of pro...

THE GREATEST MONTH"There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir," wrote Poet Bliss Carman, and his words most surely apply to the sporting scene. Of all the months of the year, none...

•Phil DeLucca, associate warden at Colorado State Reformatory, after five inmates disappeared from the cafeteria of Colorado College and two other prisoners failed to make the bus back to jail...

It was a raucous affair, the Crimson Tide and Tennessee, both unbeaten, locked in a 21-21 tie as the fourth quarter began. Then Bear Bryant's boys scored three quick touchdowns and the party was over

Hot toes haven't made the six-point play obsolete, but in the NFL they are booting more field goals and scoring fewer touchdowns. Tex Maule feels the fans have a kick coming.

The last time Jeannette Bruce's picture appeared in these pages (Jan. 19, 1970) she was perched on a cardboard crescent of a moon, 30 feet above the ice in Madison Square Garden. After all, what...

Wherever thoroughbreds race, two worlds exist side by side, the big, blowsy public life of the afternoons on the main track and the quiet, earthy and mostly unseen routine that begins in early...

Bernie Ulman, an NFL referee for 11 years, may now be addressed as professor by any player wishing to do so. Next term he will teach a course at Essex Community College near Baltimore entitled Pro...

After a careful analysis of games lost, points yielded and yards not gained, here is one man's ranking of the country's biggest losers

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THE BACK: LSU Cornerback Mike Williams scored on an end-zone fumble recovery in his team's 28-21 win over Kentucky, then stopped late Wildcat attacks as he forced a second fumble, intercepted a...

Little Annapolis, Md. awoke last week and shook itself with relief. Not since they burned the brig Peggy Stewart to protest tea taxes in 1774 had the town been rocking to such an uproar. On one...

To arrest its ignominious backward slide, Toronto has daringly reached out to Europe for fresh talent—and has discovered that its imports not only can take the NHL's punishment but can dish it out...