Frustrated for nearly a decade, Oakland finally made it back to the Super Bowl, beating the hated Pittsburgh Steelers and setting up a finale against Minnesota

The Los Angeles Rams found a new way to stay out of the Super Bowl last Sunday: they committed suicide on the Minnesota tundra. Early in the NFC championship game the Rams allowed the Vikings to...

Steve Cauthen turned 16 on Derby Day and hit New York at the end of November. Since then, in 21 days of riding, the apprentice jockey has won 29 races and $375,000 in purses and has been called...

The quarterfinals of Don King's U.S. Boxing Championship get a weigh this month aboard the carrier Lexington

Right at the start of a trip there are problems for the Milwaukee Bucks—the bus seats are too small. So are airplane lavatories and hotel beds. An NBA team on the road survives all this—plus...

How sweet it is for Tony Dorsett and Pittsburgh if they beat Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. But if things go sour, Rose Bowl rivals USC and Michigan may play for top spot. John Underwood and Joe Jares...

Microphones at the ready, the collectors of wildlife sounds steal amongst the birds and beasts, capturing a library of instant replays

As the bus carrying the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team pulled away from Chicago Stadium, Photographer Walter Iooss Jr. picked up his camera and began to shoot. Click. "When I accepted this...

Rickey Brown sets off wild dreams of the NCAA finals at Mississippi State

WEST

All their expenses paid, the top European stars came to Wisconsin for the first U.S. Nordic World Cup event and were dazzled by the hoopla and tough trails

Canada closed out U.S. ambitions for '78 World Cup glory on a neutral field

The Soviets won their Izvestia Cup again, but the Czechs, Swedes, Finns and Canadians were hardly psyched up

Environmentalists have a wary eye on Lake Placid's Olympic plans for 1980; nevertheless the Games should go on

The musical qualities of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' are debatable, but love it or loathe it, the anthem is so much a staple of American sport that it is bellowed, bebopped, blown or just plain...

PRO BASKETBALL—The Chicago Bulls had their best week of the season with three successive wins and began to look as if they had regained their playoff form of two seasons ago. The Bulls opened the...

4—Tony Triolo9—drawing by Arnold Roth12, 13—Walter Iooss Jr.14—Neil Leifer15—Tony Triolo16, 17—Tony Triolo20, 21—Lane Stewart, Herb Scharfman22—Lane Stewart41—John D. Hanlon44—Gerald Brimacombe

LISA PHIPPSLINCOLN, NEB.Thirteen-year-old Lisa, an offensive end and the only female in the Lincoln Police Department's Midget Football League, caught five touchdown passes and averaged three...

CHRISSir:I applaud your selection of Chris Evert as Sportswoman of the Year (Dec. 20-27) and agree that in 1976 she truly dominated her sport as no other man or woman did in any sport. However, I...

STATE OF CONFUSION

•Pete Maravich, asked why he was taking the news of New Orleans Jazz Coach Butch van Breda Kolff's firing so calmly: "The last time I was surprised was when I found out that ice cream cones were...