UGLY TALK

•Monte Towe, former Denver Nugget guard, making his debut as a TV color man for his old basketball team's games, after being told by broadcasting partner Al Albert that he was now seeing the game...

Alydar became the early Kentucky Derby favorite with a fast Flamingo win

After a decade in obscurity, Duke gained the spotlight in the ACC tournament with a young squad that may one day become memorable

Bill Veeck's Chicago White Sox have given Southern hospitality a new meaning by asking a rent-a-star and a horde of lesser lights to train with them in Florida

Hope springs eternal, especially during baseball's spring training, when the rookies do their best to steal the veterans' jobs. Larry Keith checks out some of this year's phenoms, particularly...

Leon Spinks may fight like a building-wrecker, but he says his mama and the Good Book come before his heavyweight title

Backache is the second leading cause of pain, right after headaches, but there's no need to double up in agony when proper exercise can straighten you out

Between now and the day you watch the closing ceremonies of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the name and works of NBC wunderkind Don Ohlmeyer should become as familiar to the TV-viewing public as those...

Louisville upset Florida State to win the Metro 7 title for Coach Denny Crum

MIDWEST

MARVIN JOHNSON: Playing only 67 minutes in league title-clinching wins over Colorado State and Wyoming, New Mexico's forward scored 82 points—including a WAC-record 50 against the Rams.

With room to spare, of course. But Don Edwards, the rookie goaltender of the Buffalo Sabres, imagines he's a six-by-four board and wills pucks out of the net

Charles Town and Shenandoah Downs are a far cry from Hialeah, but June Johnson, one of the nation's top trainers, thrives on these weather-beaten tracks

In the year of the pink slip, Paul Wiggin of the Kansas City Chiefs was the first of 10 NFL head coaches to be out on the street. In time six of his assistants were released, too. Three have found...

The chronicles of intrepid sailors hold a special fascination for many readers. Columbus' journals, Joshua Slocum's memoirs, Francis Chichester's accounts of his solo voyages, all convey the...

PRO BASKETBALL—Seattle (2-2) squeaked by Philadelphia 99-97 as reserve Guard Fred Brown rallied the Sonics from a 16-point deficit. He scored 18 points in the last quarter—32 all told—to pass...

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CORNELIUS THOMPSONMIDDLETOWN, CONN.A 6'7" senior center at Middletown High, Cornelius, 18, led the Tigers to their third straight Northwest Conference title, and a three-year 72-0 record. This...

NEW CHAMPIONSir:Pat Putnam's article on the Ali-Spinks fight (He's the Greatest, I'm the Best, Feb. 27) sent chills up and down my spine. Could any man have defeated Muhammad Ali and accepted the...

I knew I was in trouble as a sports fan when I saw a newspaper article last fall about Chris Evert's biorhythms. It ran on the morning of the women's tennis finals at Forest Hills, and in its...