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Pure gold nuggets have turned up in Denver, where the ABA entry has a new name, a new front office, two new coaches, two fine draft picks and two first-rate guards. Barry McDermott reports on a 24-carat team.

Big Bill Tilden was the greatest tennis player of his time but his life was flawed and tragic. Frank Deford begins a profile which follows him from Philadelphia's Main Line to a lonely death 60 years later in Los Angeles.