October 18, 1971 | Volume 35, Issue 16

BASEBALL—To reach the World Series (page 20), the Orioles defeated the Oakland Athletics 5-1 and 5-3 to complete their third straight three-game sweep of the American League playoffs. The Pirates,...

Lynn (The Mouse) Elbert, 10, of River Forest, Ill., won both the 10-and 12-and-under titles in the Illinois State Junior Open tennis tournament in Winnetka. She won both the semifinal and final...

21—Walter Iooss Jr.22—James Drake23—Herb Scharfman27—H. Lane Stewart28—Bruce Roberts (Rapho Guillumette)36—John F. Jaqua37—Stuart Aegler, Dick Raphael66—John F. Jaqua81—Gerry Cranham

SEEING REDSirs:As an impartial observer from Los Angeles, I am amazed how you can deny Nebraska the No. 1 spot in your football ratings (THE WEEK, Oct. 4), continually putting Notre Dame above the...

Fred Schnell begins his book on rodeo misleadingly but enticingly, with a scene in a Phoenix barroom. Carrying his camera and tape recorder, the author has a run-in with a drunken saddle bronc...

OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEBPoor old NBC. It originally had TV rights to two pro football games last Sunday as well as the World Series. Because of a time conflict, it had to let another network take...

•Larry Lacewell, assistant football coach at Oklahoma, on the Sooners' successive games with Southern California, Texas and Colorado: "I can't figure how we missed scheduling Russia."

The Bucs were keelhauled and hung out to dry as the Orioles, in their most relentless fashion, ran off to a two-game Series lead

Stan Smith, although only a Pfc., brought a lot of heavy artillery to bear against those two tenacious Rumanians, Ilie Nastase and Ion Tiriac, to lead the U.S. Davis Cup team to victory in North...

Players are richer—and becoming more civilized under new antibrawl rules

Montreal's Habitants are behaving dynastically again as Boston seeks redemption for its cup debacle and New York tries to muscle its way in

Chicago is teaching the game to the new kids on the block, who would probably find it fun if they could just play it all by themselves

Danger, Explosive! Will the precision pitching and play of the Orioles continue to nullify Pittsburgh power? Bill Leggett reports on the final games of the World Series.

This time last year Coach Bob Blackman had 250 offensive formations and was sitting pretty. This year he has 250 problems and is flat on his back.

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THE LINEMAN: Stanford Defensive Guard Pete Lazetich spilled Washington's heralded quarterback, Sonny Sixkiller, four times, either solo or with help, and turned one completed Sixkiller screen pass...

By beating a squad of young Precision System experts led by Joel Stuart in the semifinal of the U.S. team playoffs in New York last month, Lew Mathe's team avenged an earlier defeat and moved a...

In long, penetential practice sessions Gary Player whipped his game into shape and then flogged the field in the World Match Play

In a switch on the beloved hick flick story line, wonder trotter and kindly underdog owners show up at big Kentucky race with hearts high—and have them broken as a crafty rival driver blind-sides...

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When SPORTS ILLUSTRATED asked me to buck heads with Odd Lot and the horses by playing the stock market, I readily agreed. I was fascinated by the notion. I have been around horses all my life, and...