December 19, 1960 | Volume 13, Issue 25

Bobby Allen, junior at Miami's Jackson H.S., using plenty of body English, spun unsprung Xterminator kart through 100-lap race without a pit stop, averaged 31.374 mph to win Nassau's World...

The sordid details of the Jim Norris-Frankie Carbo alliance that ruled boxing for a decade were verified in Washington

When the American League decided to expand to 10 teams it interviewed various persons and groups who wanted to obtain the two new franchises. One of the men interviewed was 42-year-old Charles...

The team that wins the Western Conference title will have to face the Philadelphia Eagles, and that will not be the easy assignment it may at first appear to be. While few winning teams in...

This is our special holiday issue, a double magazine for Christmas. It offers, as the nation awaits a new President, a perceptive look at the coming years and what may be asked of sport in...

Little but loneliness awaits the men who serve as living targets defending hockey's outmost isolated bastions

On a court divided, the pros and amateurs are playing each other to a standstill

In the words of the famous 'Stein Song,' loyal Maine men stand and shout as a smart new coach leads the team into winning ways

Once a skier has learned to make a series of parallel turns on difficult terrain (SI, Dec. 5) he can consider himself an expert. But there is one thing that even the expert can do to improve his...

The top stables ignored Chicago's Court of Final Judgment, and the show lost its quality

In these paintings, which appear on the card announcing Christmas gift subscriptions to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Russell Hoban has illuminated the high points of sport in the year now drawing to a close.

BASEBALL—The major leagues finally solved the drawn-out debate on expansion in their meeting at St. Louis, agreed that the American League will add Los Angeles and St. Paul-Minneapolis in 1961,...

6, 7—Herb Orth9—sketch by Bill Charmatz11—William Roberts-Bahamas News Bureau, A. B. Westerbeek, McDermid Studios Ltd.14, 15—Robert Phillips17—A.P.18—Art Shay20—Hy Peskin35-41—John G....

Although the season was barely two weeks old, the casualty list resembled a roster of the nation's top 10. Kentucky, Wake Forest, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Indiana, Kansas, Kansas State, Utah and...

"ARETE" (CONT.)Sirs:I wish to nominate the following three athletes to share this year's award as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year:

'Hopp! Hopp! Allez, Hopp!'

National Basketball Association games through January 11

In 1865 a welterweight and a heavyweight fought 185 gory bare-fisted rounds to a draw