January 04, 1971 | Volume 34, Issue 1

A wild week of football showdowns will settle who is No. 1 in the college bowl games and produce the Super Bowl contestants. SI's experts and the color camera report.

The way it started, the idea was to get from one place to another in wintertime without floundering in snow, maybe even enjoying the frozen scenery along the way. Then someone made a sport out of...

Down the dusty main street of Livingston, Mont. (pop. 6,783) one high noon not so long ago—or so the story is told—marched grimly the man whose byline appears on page 40 of this issue of SI. He...

So much for old 1970. On to the Sporting New Year with this selected sampler of 1971 resolutions—

Jim McDaniels is an improbable giant. He plays center, naturally, but also forward and sometimes guard. He is, says Coach John Oldham of Western Kentucky, a "roamer," meaning that McDaniels would...

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THE FORESTS' PRIME EVIL

•Mercury Morris of the Miami Dolphins: "In practice I try to play it like a game. Other guys run 10 to 15 yards. I score every time. I run away from guys that aren't there, but they're going to be...

Readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic—and baseball. That is the curriculum at a revolutionary school in Florida where the Kansas City Royals are striving to turn good football and tennis players into...

If you didn't get an armadillo for Christmas, just relax. You might wake up tomorrow morning and discover one in your backyard

Unlike the Kings and the Seals, Bob Breitbard's Gulls are not West Coast major-leaguers. But they have made San Diego's hockey fans...

BASKETBALL—ABA: It was Mel Daniels of the Indiana Pacers and Mike Maloy of Virginia who squared off, but it was Coach Al Bianchi and two of his Squires, Charlie Scott and Jim Eakins, who landed in...

4—Ron Shuman11—Heinz Kluetmeier12—H. Lane Stewart, Neil Leifer (2)13—Walter Iooss Jr.14—Sheedy & Long30, 31—Jim Annan35-38—Neil Leifer40-43—Rich Clarkson44—Rich Clarkson, AP (2), Arthur Shay,...

Tony Rosetti Jr. of Biloxi, Miss. captured the World All-Around Skeet Shooting championship in Savannah, Ga., the Grand Prix of Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany and the Golden Bear Shoot in Bern,...

BOBBYSirs:You have made, in my opinion, the only conceivable choice for Sportsman of the Year: Bobby Orr (Dec. 21). I would certainly like to congratulate you on your excellent article on him....

College football's top award might bear another name if the man it commemorates had had a kinder ancestor