January 18, 1971 | Volume 34, Issue 3

Dr. Del Meriwether, a 27-year-old hematologist, came to this conclusion last year while watching a televised track meet. So he took up the sport and last week whipped some of the world's best...

Who was watching the friendly skies last week? Was there nobody to dispense coffee, tea or milk? Nobody to fluff up pillows or serve that plastic chicken and steak? No. It seemed that every...

Two teams with similar motivations meet in the Super Bowl this Sunday. The Baltimore Colts are bent on avenging their humiliating defeat by the Jets two years ago; the Dallas Cowboys want to prove...

There is this one slow, sad truth about pro quarterbacks: almost to a man they are deadly dull. It is as if the game they dominate, with its brute violence and constant pain, has leeched them of...

On Jan. 12, 1969. with 25 seconds remaining in the first half of the Super Bowl and the New York Jets leading 7-0, Baltimore Quarterback Earl Morrall handed off to Halfback Tom Matte, took a...

Fishermen are dreamers—big dreamers—and one of the visions that makes a saltwater fisherman's workaday life bearable is the one that transports him to Baja California, dropping him gently on the...

The resorts on the Baja side of the Sea of Cortez are completely devoted to fishing. The best way to get to them is to fly to La Paz—either from Los Angeles via Aeronaves de Mexico or from Phoenix...

Corral the colts? To do it the Cowboys will have to head them off at the pass—the ones Johnny Unitas will be throwing. Tex Maule reports the fifth annual Super Bowl.

Athletes who never quite make it to the big time tend to keep their egos alive by blaming it all on some visitation of vindictive fate: a fly ball lost in the sun, a coach afflicted with idiocy, a...

Australia has established a review board to deal with appeals against the government's official film censors, and former distance runner Ron Clarke is one of the five appointees. Clarke reports...

Three University of Pennsylvania basketball players went to see Coach Dick Harter one day last week—separately and on their own. They wanted to know what they could do—what sacrifice they could...

WEST

By the time they got to Rancho, the pros found the venerable tournament had taken on a bright new celebrity image, and burly Bob Lunn found himself winning a sudden-death playoff with Billy Casper

GOING LIKE 60

•Bill Fitch, coach of the hapless Cleveland Cavaliers: "Going into a game against Lew Alcindor is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle."

BASKETBALL—NBA: Portland, which holds the dubious honor of being the best of the league's three expansion teams, highlighted a fine week by knocking off East Division leader New York 114-96....

Charlie Chochrek of Hellenic College made an 84-foot shot with one second remaining in the second overtime to tie the score, but his team lost 125-121 to Emerson College in Boston. The 6'5"...

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FIGHTING GAMECOCKSSirs:Congratulations on your article The Toughest Kid on Anybody's Block (Jan. 4). You couldn't have picked a better man to feature than John Roche or a better team than the...