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TABLE OF CONTENTS
March 08, 1976 | Volume 44, Issue 10
TEMPEST IN TEXAS
•Lefty Driesell, University of Maryland basketball coach, explaining why his Terps have been able to defeat North Carolina State twice: "They have a small team, just like ours, but I guess our...
Honest Pleasure showed his heels to the finest colts in Florida as he racked up records in the Flamingo
March 08, 1976 | Curry Kirkpatrick Las Vegas, customarily in Nevada, moved last week to a state of ennui, where Jimmy Connors dispatched Manuel Orantes. Both players left with a bundle, but the poor spectators were left cold
March 08, 1976 | Gerald Strine
In a caper worthy
of Newman and Redford, a horseman won the confidence of a bank and three
racetracks, and then, says the FBI, took them for a cool million and
skipped
March 08, 1976 | Curry Kirkpatrick
March 08, 1976 Veeck as in Vexing is back and itching to shake up everything from uniforms—his White Sox in shorts?!—to uniformity. A first-person account by the man the owners tried to keep out.
March 08, 1976 | Mark Kram It was one of those Hong Kong days when the heat garrotes the spirit, and any thought is labor. I remember him running, weaving, and I recall thinking at the time how no American-sized halfback...
Losing, that is, for the young, exuberant Bearcats have compiled a homecourt winning streak of 46 games, the longest in the country
EAST
March 08, 1976 | Martha Smilgis In a sport ruled by Europeans in their 30s, Peter Westbrook, who is only 23, looks sharp enough to win the U.S. an Olympic medal in the saber
Whatever, it's a slow windup, with the players eager to start spring training while management stalls
It was a Monday
night in January at the Port Charlotte (Fla.) Bowlerama, and the fourth event
of The Women Superstars preliminary competition was about to be filmed. Althea
Gibson, Wyomia Tyus and...
The author, a 10-time U.S. Open champion, expected a soft touch from a group of Japanese ballerinas, but he got knocked for a loop
1) Take a wide, crouching stance as the ball approaches
and transfer your weight to the right side. For balance, extend the left arm in
line with the left shoulder, and hold the arm high. 2) The...
The AAU indoor championships offered spectators everything but a trapeze act and cotton candy
Well into the women's mile at the Garden, Jan Merrill was running last in a field of eight. Ordinarily this would have been surprising, since Merrill ranks just behind Francie Larrieu as the best...
March 08, 1976 | Mark Kram The scream of Billy Cunningham as his knee tore and his season—perhaps even his career—ended, bespoke the savage hurt that can come with sport, the pangs and throbbing and enduring ache that...
March 08, 1976 12—drawing by Arnold Roth20, 21—Hank deLespinasse22, 23—Barry Pearl (2), Ed Ewing, Harry Benson, Kelso Sturgeon26, 27—Neil Leifer28—Marvin E. Newman42—Tony Tomsic45—Heinz Kluetmeier46, 47—Lane...
March 08, 1976 Wendy Goelz, 6, a first-grader at Herbert Hoover School in Tonawanda, N.Y., won her seventh speed skating championship of the winter, the girls' seven-and-under Peewee title in the North American...
March 08, 1976 PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: All through the week Washington stayed close to first-place Cleveland in the Central. Houston beat the Cavaliers 117-114, halting Cleveland's eight-game winning streak. Then...
Personally, I enjoy watching expressions of joy, brio, élan, that sort of thing, even in sports, but I realize that not everyone does. For instance, as is well known, the NCAA some time ago...
March 08, 1976 | Edited by Gay Flood Sir:Congratulations on the excellent coverage of the 1976 Winter Olympic Games, especially William Oscar Johnson's article (Feb. 23). The photographs were breathtaking, with one possible...
You know, it has become an accepted verity that modern athletes are a bright bunch. And why not? Many have loitered in classrooms between practice sessions, have read magazines available in...
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