May 05, 1975 | Volume 42, Issue 18

Even in spring a football game is the surest way to attract a crowd at the University of Oklahoma. More than 20,000 fans, hungry for a repeat of last year's AP national championship, came out...

The goalposts, that is, which deflected many a shot as Chico Resch sparked the Islanders to an amazin' comeback

Saturday is Derby Day, and the field gathering at Churchill Downs is blooming with fine young colts, any one of whom could burst through to win

Semifinals wholly tough begin in the NBA. Pat Putnam reports as the top regular-season teams, Boston and Washington, meet in the East, and Barry McDermott covers Chicago vs. Golden State in the West.

gearing up for a gold rush

It is impossible to shake a personal philosophy. It has a way of sticking, like the residue from candied dates, to everything one touches. One's method of obtaining success in a vocation will...

Locker-room confessionals are all the rage these days. Athletes (with ghost-writers securely in tow) line up at every door along publishers' row, hopeful of peddling their "tell-it-like-it-is"...

Tiny cars are careening through twisty circuits at a dollar a lap in a fast new race-it-yourself game

Nine years ago when the baseball Braves moved in from Milwaukee and promptly drew 1.5 million spectators, Atlanta was viewed as the hot new city for major league sports. The Braves were followed...

While Jack, Johnny and the boys were sampling La Costa's charms, Al Geiberger was bagging birdies

Having escaped the developer, a few of Georgia's barrier islands endure, wonderfully wild and wet

Especially for Tony Waldrop, who lost his shoe in the mile

As a test of their mettle, terriers are scored on how fast they get at a pair of caged rats, and on the rumpus they raise going down the drain

AFTERSHOCK

•Ron Blomberg, designated hitter for the Yankees: "With Bobby Bonds in right field and three first basemen I might as well donate my gloves to charity."

And it's looking better every day as Fred Lynn, 23—line-drive belter, surehanded outfielder—auditions as Boston Red Sox savior, 1975 style

NL EAST

The Pacers' young front line took them to a surprising playoff lead

PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: Washington eliminated Buffalo in the seventh game of their series, the Bullets taking charge of both the offensive and defensive ends of the court to overwhelm the Braves...

18, 19—Neil Leifer20, 21—Tony Triolo, Jerry Cooke22—Eric Schweikardt40, 41—Jack Yokono59—Leviton-Atlanta60—Sheedy & Long64—map by William Bernstein68—Lane Stewart73—Herb Scharfman79—John D....

Kari Lewis, 10, of Scottsdale, Ariz., took the all-round title for the second straight year at the Girls' State Gymnastic Meet in Tempe, winning the balance beam competition, coming in third in...

JACK'S FIFTHSir:My golf cap is off to Dan Jenkins for a beautiful story on the Masters (You're All Right, Jack, April 21). He came up with a great angle and a strong ending, but about that movie...