June 25, 1973 | Volume 38, Issue 25

THE PATERNO ADDRESS

•Pepper Rodgers, UCLA football coach, on his 1973 schedule: "I'd much rather open with Alaska than Nebraska. Unfortunately, Alaska doesn't give a very big guarantee."

Little-known Rick Wohlhuter, who is 5'9", and Steve Williams, who is 6'2", were the big guns at the national AAU championships and lead a U.S. team that shapes up as a winner against Russia next month

Cincinnati's hitting has been weak but its pitching has been awful. The NL champs hang close, still hoping

As pennant visions dance in the heads of Yankee fans, Bobby Murcer, Ron Blomberg, Sparky Lyle & Co. come up against tough Detroit and Baltimore. Bill Leggett reports.

Ohhh, no! This proud father caught a foul ball in San Diego Stadium and magnanimously handed it to his small son, beaming. So the kid does what? Tosses the ball back onto the field, nearly beaning...

A poet-athlete might seem a rarity, but this week's issue includes stories by two men who are just that. Dan Gerber, who recounts his near-tragic, final adventure as a race driver on page 42, has...

Although most of the teams seemed right out of last fall's football Top 20—Southern California. Oklahoma, Texas, Penn State, Arizona State—what it was was baseball. Oh, sure enough, there was a...

NL WEST

They came along different paths, one a Little Leaguer with big-league ambitions, the other a body-builder with eyes only for his biceps. They got the message, though, and lifted straight to...

It may sound mighty muscular but it was graceful good sport when the nation's best women rowers got together for their championships

Tubby Tamerlane came up from the country to whup the Hambo horses

COLLEGE BASEBALL—SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA gained its fourth straight NCAA baseball championship, beating Arizona State twice, 3-1 and 4-3, and finishing The College World Series unbeaten (page 50).

5—Jill Krementz16, 17—Neil Leifer, Walter Iooss Jr. (2)18—Walter Iooss Jr. (2), Neil Leifer19—James Drake, Walter Iooss Jr.20, 21—Walter Iooss Jr.22, 23—Rich Clarkson24—Herb Scharfman (4), Fred...

Jerry Shulman, 20, a biophysics major at the University of Michigan, pedaled his 10-speed Romana to victory in the 13th Pepsi-Wolverine 200-mile Bicycle Marathon on Detroit's Belle Isle. He went...

Sirs:It makes horse sense that the feat (or feet) of Secretariat should earn him a nomination for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year award. If it were up to me, there would be no neighs...

The species of bird known as Hammond's Flycatcher (Empidonax hammondii) was named for William Alexander Hammond, an amateur ornithologist, a neurologist and former Surgeon General of the United...

In 1972 a $9 million class-action suit was filed by the American Indian Center of Cleveland against the Cleveland Indians for using "Chief Wahoo" as a team symbol. Part of a coordinated movement...