September 06, 1976 | Volume 45, Issue 10

OLD KICKERS NEVER DIE...

•Bum Phillips, Houston head coach, explaining a dismal Oiler first half: "It was a time mix-up. We started playing at nine o'clock, and the kickoff was at eight."

And the Reds are masters of minutiae, as they showed by winning three of four in a playoff preview with the Phillies

Pro football fans in Delaware will be able to bet on the outcome of NFL contests now that the league has lost the first quarter of its courtroom game to keep the tiny state from implementing its...

The league brass was hoping for a win by the Kicks, who had the right image. But ethnic Toronto, which did not, beat them 3-0 to take home the NASL title

A mythical—or perhaps not so mythical—coach leans back, waves his $1.50 cigar and tells college football just how to solve its problems and face up to the future

Pro football 1976 arrives, replete with Wanda, Meg, Do Dad and 43 Purple Sloop. Dan Jenkins, NFL glossary in hand, reviews recent events, previews the upcoming season and makes some funnies....

Coach Hayden Fry, who wants North Texas State to attain enough status to allow the Mean Green to join the Southwest Conference, plays Texas early in the year. "We'll probably get whipped," he...

And then there are the smalls. To urbanites, big-school alums and Saturday afternoon TV watchers, they are as confounding as a Chinese menu—a lot of A&Ms and A&Is that don't seem to mean...

The scouting reports on the Top 20 teams, the conferences, the independents and the small colleges were prepared by Joe Jares, Edwin Shrake, Larry Keith, Douglas S. Looney, Joe Marshall, Kent...

Familiarity is supposed to breed contempt, but that old saw does not hold true for college songs. Saturday after Saturday the marching bands blare out the nostalgic strains, and in the stands...

WITH MARK LITTELL AND STEVE MINGORI, THE ROYALS GET DOUBLE THE RELIEF

AL EAST

VIDA BLUE: The A's lefty won twice, setting down Baltimore 3-0 and no-hitting the Tigers for 8⅓ innings while winning 5-2. Blue, 13-11, has completed six straight games and has a 1.58 ERA during...

From the day he's hired, a college football coach has two things in common with his predecessor—a belief he can do the job, a good chance he won't. Meet four fresh optimists

11—Drawing by Michael Ramus16, 17—Manny Millan18, 19—Manny Millan, Doug Bruce-Camera 520, 21—Tony Tomsic25—Al Satterwhite-Camera 531—Lane Stewart, AP32—Lane Stewart, courtesy Arizona State...

BASEBALL—TOKYO, benefiting from six wild pitches and five errors, defeated Campbell (Calif.) 10-3 to win the Little League World Series at Williamsport, Pa.

ROBERT CODIGNOTTOWANTAGH, N.Y.Eight-year-old Robert, a third-grader at Sunrise Park elementary school, scored 146 goals and won 80% of his face-offs as a midfielder to lead the Bisons to a 15-0...

OUT OF THE GHETTOSir:I thoroughly enjoyed your article on Albert King and Rodney Parker (Uneasy Rise of a Brooklyn Star, Aug. 23). It is a fabulous thing that Parker has done for basketball stars...