I'M just your typical, over-the-hill jock," he insists. Yet typical is hardly the word to describe Ray Kennedy, TIME's Sport editor and author of this week's cover story on Lee Trevino, golf's new superstar.

A native Cincinnatian, Kennedy graduated from Notre Dame in 1955, was soon drafted and sent to Japan. An "entertainment specialist," he directed his Army buddies in such plays as Inherit the Wind and Stalag 17 and after leaving the service, he joined a summer-stock cast of Mr. Roberts. Kennedy next appeared in Chicago as a real-life police reporter with the City News Bureau. "They would have paid me $35 a week," he said, "but I had a college degree, so I got $40."

In 1962 Kennedy joined TIME's Chicago bureau, later came to New York to become one of our most prolific "entertainment specialists," writing a dozen covers including those on rock 'n' roll, Rowan and Martin, Rudolf Nureyev, and the Frazier-Ali championship bout. Not long after he wrote our cover on television commercials, Kennedy, his wife Patsy and their eight children made a few commercials themselves.

Patsy now has a new extracurricular scheme. Accustomed to chauffeuring her kids to and from their West Side Manhattan apartment, she has applied to become a licensed cabbie as soon as her ninth child is born in December. Says Patsy: "I'm looking forward to the fun part of driving a taxi--bawling out the customers."

When Kennedy started writing Sport, he brought with him a lifelong obsession with competitive play. He was considered the TIME softball team's ace pitcher till the squad opened its ranks to women players. "I hung up my sneakers," says Kennedy, "because when it comes to softball, I'm a real male chauvinist pig. Somehow I cannot see myself hook-sliding into a lovely second baselady."

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