World Hockey Association

BLEAK FUTURE

Politicians, whose popular image can use refurbishing, are seeing an easy way to please sports fans by abolishing local TV blackouts of home games, even though professional football insists that the game's continued...

Underdogs Bite back in college football as a pack of also-rans snarl in rebellion. John Underwood reviews the season's surprises and explains what unleashed them.

PRO BASKETBALL—ABA: Carolina Coach Larry Brown revamped his starting lineup, inserting newly acquired Jim Chones at center and moving third-year man Tom Owens to forward. Both responded, Chones hitting 13 of 17 for...

THE GREATEST MONTH"There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir," wrote Poet Bliss Carman, and his words most surely apply to the sporting scene. Of all the months of the year, none can match October in...