Jerry McGee

BOXING—ESTEBAN DeJESUS of Carolina, Puerto Rico retained his WBC lightweight title in San Juan with a seventh-round knockout of Hector Julio Medina of the Dominican Republic.

Choose your favorite buddy or brother, play best ball and then make enough birdies to win, just as Jim Colbert and Dean Refram did

Here is a Christmas pudding of quotes culled from the more memorable comments that appeared in this space during the past 12 months:

•Toni Fritsch, Austrian-born Dallas Cowboy placekicker: "How much English I have means very small. What means much is that the Cowboys need three points. All I have to know is that I get three points or they say goodby."

The format was different, the result the same as Jack Nicklaus racked up still another title, the U.S. Match Play, one of two rich tournaments that were staged on the same course at the same time