September 08, 1980 | Volume 53, Issue 11

There is a yellow-and-red object speeding through the sky these days that isn't a bird or a plane and bears not the slightest resemblance to Superman. It is a Frisbee-like toy called the Skyro, a...

The year is 1948, and it is a hot summer morning on a basketball court in a playground at 108th Street in Rockaway Beach, a part of New York City. One end of the court is deserted. At the other...

24, 25—Hal Stoelzle (6), Barton Silverman (top right)26, 27—Barton Silverman (left), Barry Tenin (top), Hal Stoelzle28, 29—Barton Silverman (bottom center, top right), Hal Stoelzle...

BOXING—JULIAN SOLIS of Puerto Rico beat champion Jorge Lujan of Panama on a split decision in Miami Beach to win the WBA bantamweight title.

FRANKIE PRIDEMORESANDSTON, VA.Frankie, 12, a lefthanded pitcher for the Sandston Little League Orioles, threw three straight no-hitters, five overall, had a 9-1 record and led his team to the...

OH, THOSE O'SSir:There were no real losers during the Oriole-Yankee series (Now (he Race Is On, Aug. 25). Both teams should take a bow for the excitement they provided. Baseball was never better.

BACK TO YOU, BLUMEL

•Cliff Stoudt, who advanced from No. 3 quarterback to No. 2 with the Steelers when Mike Kruczek was traded: "I've graduated from clipboard to headset."

Yes, Virginia—The University, that is—used to be comfortable with losing, paying more mind to Tradition, Parties and Mister Jefferson. Now, declares Frank Deford, those times are changing....

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All in splendid all, Roger Staubach brought the Dallas Cowboys from behind to win 23 games in the fourth quarter, 14 of them in the last two minutes. The best comeback ever, Staubach says without...

If you pick NEW ENGLAND, the law of averages is with you. How many years have you heard, "The Patriots have the material to go all the way"? And how many years has their curious self-destruct...

NEW ENGLAND 11-5MIAMI 10-6NEW YORK JETS 9-7BUFFALO 6-10BALTIMORE 6-10

Pittsburgh has a major problem: the NFL won't let Chuck Noll have a 60-man roster. Personnel men around the league watch the Steeler cut lists like stockbrokers studying the ticker. The...

PITTSBURGH 12-4HOUSTON 11-5CLEVELAND 8-8CINCINNATI 6-10

Don Coryell is Woody Hayes in reverse. Three things make the SAN DIEGO coach nervous: the sight of his quarterback handing the ball off; the sight of a running back carrying the ball; and...we...

SAN DIEGO 11-5DENVER 10-6KANSAS CITY 9-7SEATTLE 7-9OAKLAND 7-9

Pro football is a game of inaction interrupted by bursts of motion. Usually, Photographer Walter Iooss Jr. shoots the action, but on these and the following pages he dwells instead on the static,...

In what must be viewed as a bloodcurdling case of publishing overkill, we have this season three books, totaling 802 pages, about...Billy Martini One would have to look long and hard to find a...

It's fashionable these days to downgrade Dallas. No more Roger Staubach, too many injuries in the secondary. That might be a mistake. It's also fashionable to be bullish on Philadelphia, which...

WASHINGTON 11-5DALLAS 10-6PHILADELPHIA 10-6ST. LOUIS 7-9NEW YORK GIANTS 5-11

What we have here is an unguarded Brinks truck just waiting for somebody to come along and pick it clean. An 8-8 record is big thunder in this part of the world. The CHICAGO Bears are the most...

CHICAGO 10-6TAMPA BAY 8-8DETROIT 6-10MINNESOTA 6-10GREEN BAY 2-14

For the first time in nine years there is no Rosenbloom on the masthead of the LOS ANGELES press book. Steve is in New Orleans, along with four other ex-Ram executives, and his stepmother,...

LOS ANGELES 10-6NEW ORLEANS 7-9SAN FRANCISCO 5-11ATLANTA 4-12

The new president of CBS Sports, Freeman Van Gordon Sauter, has impeccable credentials as a journalist, but his closest brush with organized sports came some 25 years ago when he refereed Ohio...

With his batting average high among the league leaders and his fielding as slick as ever, Second Baseman Manny Trillo of Philadelphia is hushing up his critics

AL WEST

DICK RUTHVEN: While beating the Giants 7-1 and the Padres 6-1, the Phillie righthander improved his record to 13-8. He issued only one base on balls and helped himself with a single, double,...

The nation's warmup junkies can now stock up on apparel ranging from jump suits through vests and parkas, turtlenecks and dresses, skirts and button-down shirts, all in cozy old sweat suiting. It...

The Cosmos' nonpareil scorer wrecked Tulsa with an NASL-record seven goals

Bob Bavier's America's Cup Fever (Yachting Books/Ziff-Davis, $14.95) is essential reading for anyone who follows competition for the Ould Mug closely. All sailors should find it informative and...

The early 1930s were the Golden Age of first basemen. Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx. George Sisler, Bill Terry, Hank Green-berg, Jim Bottomley, George Kelly—that's seven Hall of Famers who played the...