February 09, 1976 | Volume 44, Issue 6

Tom Woods was the class of a classy field at New York's Millrose Games

First BMW driver Peter Gregg complained of food poisoning, but the real agony for his victorious team was the discovery of mysteriously watered fuel

Daredevil dashes on Innsbruck's downhill runs highlight the opening week of the Winter Olympics, in which the U.S. hopes to strike skating gold. William Oscar Johnson reports.

Among those who are just as happy not to winter in Florida, Arizona or California are the hockey-playing kids of Minnesota. The state probably has more tiny slap-shooters per chilblain than any...

Stories in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED typically are more concerned with success than failure, but occasionally defeat can be fascinating, as in the account on page 57 of Prince Alfred, an Australian...

Western Michigan (16-0) is a new big shot, but just in its hometown

MIDEAST

With virtually no fanfare, on Jan. 11 CBS began inserting a series of 3½-minute films entitled Red Auerbach on Roundball into the halftimes of its telecasts of NBA games. The segments present...

Halftime at the ABA All-Star Game featured a mind-blowing spectacle in which the Doctor was too much

A revolutionary Aussie yacht with an underwater snout was thrashed by a U.S. boat, but its designer still believes it is more Wright than wrong

PHEW, HUGH

PRO BASKETBALL—NBA: Ray Scott, the only winning coach in Detroit's history and NBA Coach of the Year in 1974, was fired due to a "communication breakdown," and his assistant, Herb Brown, 39...

4—Thomas W. Vanderschmidt14, 15—Barton Silverman16, 17—Eric Schweikardt41—John Kenney44, 45—Eric Schweikardt48—Doug Bruce-Camera 550, 52—Carl Iwasaki57, 60—David Moore-Black Star66—Tony...

Bonita Goode, a sophomore at Blue-stone Senior High in Skipwith, Va., set a school basketball record of 52 points in a 77-75 defeat of Greensville High. The 5'6½" co-captain was on the 1974...

SUPER STEELERS IISir:For an avid Dallas Cowboy fan, the Super Bowl loss was a bitter pill to swallow. But thanks to a few days of recuperation and your article (Dallas Feels the Steeler Crunch,...