There's a new game in town. Four players. Teams change constantly. Hard to tell who's winning. One thing's for sure, the audience comes out on the short end.

Yielding a measly 29 yards on the ground, the Steelers upset Oakland to win their first title and a shot at the Vikings in the Super Bowl

The Minnesota Stoics and the Los Angeles Flakes brought back the Offense of the 1920s and the comedy of the Bedroom Farce last Sunday. The team from Los Angeles, nominally the Rams, made enough...

Louisville has played well just a fraction of the time, but that has been enough to smoke its opponents

The sedate new name is Freestyle, but skiers still relish falling out of the sky and you never sausage crazy stunts

Especially in the TV game called 'Superstars' in which the women, led by a galaxy of unknowns from volleyball, basketball and football, showed more competitiveness than their male predecessors

It was only to watch and maybe make a rupee or two that 8-year-old Hashim perched on the squash court wall that day 50 years ago, never realizing he would found a dynasty

Pure gold nuggets have turned up in Denver, where the ABA entry has a new name, a new front office, two new coaches, two fine draft picks and two first-rate guards. Barry McDermott reports on a...

Melvin Maddocks had just finished reading a book for one of his many TIME reviews. It was Robert Fitzgerald's new translation of The Iliad, and a passage describing the ancient Greek funeral games...

Pedals flashing, flying over the obstacles, kids are cycling into a new form of motocross madness

Its origins hypothetical, this forebear of the poodle is making a comeback with help from such masters as Trudeau and Kosygin

Webster also rebounds and scores as Morgan monopolizes Division II

EAST

For most dollars, titles and class, 1974 awards go to Johnny Miller, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer, while the author awaits the new season

When an NHL game gets hot, Andy must keep it from boiling over

Ahead of an athlete, especially one who knew euphoric days of fame, lie retirement and the pain of adapting to another world

STORM CLOUDS

Mike McCormack, Philadelphia Eagles coach, fearful that the Rozelle Rule may be declared illegal: "I think it would turn football into a mercenary sport."

PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: Houston starting Center Zaid Abdul-Aziz (né Don Smith) announced his retirement the night after Christmas but was back in the lineup two days later as the Rockets beat Atlantic...

4—Dick Raphael12,13—Heinz Kluetmeier14—Heinz Kluetmeier16,17—Walter Iooss Jr. (2), John Iacono18,19—Richard Clarkson22—Eric Schweikardt23—Art Seitz, Eric Schweikardt (2)24—Eric...

Carole Lake, of Fort Lauderdale, won the high overall trophy by catching six sailfish in the three-day Frankie Laine Celebrity Billfish Classic at Fort Lauderdale. Lake caught three more sailfish...

SPORTSMANSir:Your choice of Muhammad Ali as Sportsman of the Year was as much of a surprise as Ali's first victory over Sonny Liston. I have been an Ali follower since his 1962 KO of Sonny Banks...