December 16, 1974 | Volume 41, Issue 25

DOUBLE CROSS COUNTRY

•Jack Mildren, New England defensive back, on his familiarity with the offensive tendencies of his old team, the Colts: "They know I know and I know they know I know, but I don't know how much I...

The game began in the afternoon and looked as if it might continue through the night, but Howard finally edged hometown St. Louis in the fourth extra period to win the NCAA soccer championship

The sportsman of the Year is unveiled—and extolled by George Plimpton—in an issue that also celebrates our 20th anniversary and the last 20 years in sport, an era of unprecedented change and...

I took my 7-year-old daughter to the place where my mother once scouted my Christmas games, which was a neighborhood store where the proprietor capped paregoric and topped cheeseburgers from...

As Lindsey Nelson walked off National Flight 6 from Miami and into New York's LaGuardia Airport on a recent Tuesday afternoon, sports broadcasting's most peripatetic play-by-play announcer finally...

Big timber in Oregon, Ron has shot himself into obscurity on the road

WEST

With 86% of the regular season over, Bud Goode's computer shows what the changes did to the game

Into the fast company at the hustlers' tournament came Buddy Hall from Shreveport and soon the question was, would he ever lose?

At a time when publishers, like almost everyone, are concerned about an uncertain economy, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is happy to point out a silver lining in the sports-book marketplace. Along with the...

Rodney has got it all and won't mind if you'd like to play with his bat and ball and mitt, for, you see, Mr. Gott heads AMF, the largest maker of equipment in the whole wide world of sports

For a while the Missouri Valley Conference had perhaps the best basketball in the country. In the late '50s and early '60s, during the post-cold-war and pre-UCLA days, it couldn't be beat.

BASEBALL—TRADES: Baltimore sent Pitcher Dave McNally to Montreal, received Outfielder Ken Singleton and Pitcher Mike Torrez; Houston sent First Baseman Lee May to Baltimore, received Enos Cabell...

4—illustration by Arnold Roth7—Jerry Cooke20, 21—Lane Stewart, John Iacono23—John Iacono, Lane Stewart26, 27—Sheedy & Long, Walter Iooss Jr.28—Walter Iooss Jr.54—Drew B. Leviton-Leviton...

Joe Duren, a senior placekicker at Arkansas State University, booted a modern NCAA record field goal of 63 yards and later kicked a 56-yarder to defeat McNeese State 22-20. Earlier he connected...

Sir:A big bow to SI's basketball research (Scouting Reports, Dec 2). Louisville Coach Denny Crum has finally gotten the big man he's needed, and should Ricky Gallon live up to his potential the...