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Pro basketball begins its season with newness everywhere, from executive offices to playing courts. A look at the NBA's new faces and its new image, plus scouting reports.

From the grandeur of a private reserve in the Bavarian Alps, a former U.S. diplomat offers America an age-old European solution to the problems of game, land and men.

Playful Pittsburgh, the top college football team in the East, runs and passes as never before—on orders of the school's president. John Underwood tells how it all works.