February 18, 1980 | Volume 52, Issue 7

To the plaudits of the Millrose Games crowd that had cheered her to a world mark in the 1,500, Mary Decker triumphantly tours the Garden

Amid Pageantry and Turmoil, but not much snow, the XIII Winter Olympic Games commence. William Oscar Johnson, Bob Ottum, E. M. Swift and Anita Verschoth cover the action on the runs, ovals,...

Roger Dionne doesn't believe in playing the chalk. Fourteen years ago, in his hometown of Waterbury, Conn., he campaigned for a seat in the state House of Representatives. Because he was an...

Bobby Knight, the noted basketball coach and media critic, made his debut as a broadcaster last March at the NCAA finals in Salt Lake City. He was the color man on the radio network that carried...

Lewis Lloyd, No. 2 in rebounds and scoring, is Des Moines' latest rage

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MITCHELL ANDERSON: The 6'7" forward became the first Bradley sophomore ever to amass 1,000 career points, scoring 55, grabbing 17 rebounds and blocking five shots in wins over Creighton and...

They may not be ready for the NHL yet, but Philadelphia's farmhands are boffo at the box office in Maine and have provided the astute Flyers with key reinforcements

Burning wood to heat homes is catching on everywhere north of the Sun Belt. The reasons commonly cited for using wood as an energy source are that trees can be replaced; that wood is cheaper than...

The K. C. Kings have put together a dynamite mixture that's made them the Midwest Division's most explosive force

4—Peter Read Miller14, 15—Jacqueline Duvoisin16, 17—Manny Millan (left), George Tiedemann18—Brian Lanker19—Peter Read Miller20, 21—Robert Hagedohm (top), Peter Read Miller24—Mike Maple...

BASKETBALL—"It was strictly a Bo Derek second half," said Boston Coach Bill Fitch after a game with Philadelphia. Fitch did not mean that the Celtics had scored only 10 points in the half, but...

HARRY RAWSTROMNEWARK, DEL.Rawstrom, 63, swimming coach at the University of Delaware for the past 34 years, won four freestyle events—at 50, 100, 200 and 500 yards—in the 60-64 age group in the...

A MERE AMUSEMENT?

•Wayne Boultinghouse, the basketball coach at Indiana State-Evansville, on the advantages of having 7'6½" Center John Hollinden: "Just the other day we were in the Atlanta airport, and John helped...

SUNSTRUCKSir:Let's hear it for the Caribbean (Taking It Easy Where It's Breezy, Feb. 4)! Your "Islands in the Sun" issue will reduce our fuel bill and help keep tuition down next year. Oh, how...