CHAMPION BY COMMITTEE

•Lou Carnesecca, St. John's basketball coach, asked about Villanova freshman Forward Alex Bradley: "He's the most unheralded best freshman I ever heard of. Does that sound right?"

Portland is not just running away from everybody in the NBA, it's mounting an assault on the record books as well

Coonskin caps and 'Big Orange' water weren't nearly enough for Tennessee in its swimming summit with Alabama

It was high-ranked Texas and high-ranked Arkansas in a good old Southwest Conference shoot-out—except this time the sport was basketball. The Hogs avenged this season's only loss, but not before...

The snow looked a lot like a Bavarian dessert, but Stenmark and Moser-Proell made sweet work of the championships

A rookie bonanza is what the NBA is enjoying this season. Curry Kirkpatrick surveys the crop, whose standouts are three fine starting forwards—Walter Davis of the Suns, Marques Johnson of the...

There are only 40 minutes of playing time in a college basketball game, but many hours go into making a midwinter Saturday night contest the festive highlight of the week on campuses all around...

Nowhere is college basketball a bigger spectacle than at Kansas, where every game evokes vivid memories of Naismith, Allen and Chamberlain

Among the special contributions of Special Contributor Robert Cantwell have been articles on subjects as diverse as polo's Cecil Smith (SI, May 9, 1977), the history of free road maps (June 22,...

Little Franklin Jacobs is growing, but not as fast as his ability to astound purists with his record high jumps

No wonder Albert King isn't scoring—his mates act as if they haven't met him

MIDWEST

FREEMAN WILLIAMS: In a 133-110 win over Rocky Mountain, the Portland State guard scored 81 points, second-highest total in major-college play. The NCAA scoring champ is again on top with a 36.0...

In their first fight, Bruce Curry floored Wilfredo Benitez three times and lost, but the Puerto Rican trained for this one and his opponent was travel-worn

So sang the poet, and indeed the horned guan, an exotic denizen of Central American mountains, is so rarely seen as to seem almost fabulous. A saga of a quest for a bird whose mating call is like...

Will Rogers traveled so much and attended so many banquets that his homecomings were events. When he sat down to dinner on one occasion, the story goes, his wife said to their children, "The man...

4—Lane Stewart11—drawing by SQW22, 23—Jerry Cooke, Helmut Gritscher24—Helmut Gritscher46—Eric Schweikardt53—Neil Leifer69—Leslie Campbell, Barton Silverman, Joseph Silverman-Washington Star70—Dan...

KRIS CARROLLOAKHAM, MASS.Kris, 13, who won regional championships in slalom, tricks, jump and overall, was named 1977's outstanding female Eastern water skier. In August, she became the first New...

PRO BASKETBALL—Larry O'Brien is a class guy. When All-Star Guard Pete Maravich suffered a knee injury this week, the commissioner stepped in and named John Havlicek as his replacement on the East...

GEORGE ALLEN'S DEPARTURESir:George Allen was not chased out of Washington by the fans, but by the sportswriters. I was absolutely disgusted to read Joe Marshall's article about Allen being fired...