Louisiana lightning, as Ron Guidry's fastball is called, has made him baseball's top pitcher. As Sam Moses writes, Guidry is as much in the groove when it comes to Louisiana living, which means...

PRO BASKETBALL—With at least five players scoring in double figures in each game, Atlantic Division leader Washington (page 20) went 3-0 and opened up a 2½-game margin over second-place...

3—Tony Triolo12, 13—Marvin E. Newman14, 15—Heinz Kluetmeier17—Walter Iooss Jr.18, 19—Walter Iooss Jr. (center), John Iacono (2)20, 21—Tony Triolo22—Jerry Wachter29—Evelyn Floret-Black Star30—Diana...

KATHY KARPOWICHFREELAND, PA.Kathy, 16, is the first female to be named Darter of the Year by International Spider magazine, dart throwing's leading publication. She won six women's singles titles...

SPORTSMAN NICKLAUS (CONT.)Sir:Thank you for the splendid Christmas present—naming Jack Nicklaus Sportsman of the Year and giving us Frank Deford's brilliant article about him (Still Glittering...

Pittsburgh got the drop on Houston in the rain-drenched, fumble-filled AFC title game, smashing the Oilers 34-5 to set up a Super Bowl rendezvous with Dallas

In the middle of the third quarter of the NFC championship game, the score was Dallas 0, Los Angeles 0, and it looked as though the winning coach would either be Jock Sutherland or Bernie Bierman,...

For the the past six months, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S guide through publishing's legal maze has been Mary Gibbons, the daughter of a career Air Force officer, who was born in Germany, learned to swim...

Washington has the best record in the NBA, due in no small part to the magic of Small Forward Bobby Dandridge

Don't cross Don (Grapes) Cherry, hockey's most dapper and outspoken coach, lest he sic one of his Boston Bruins or his bullterrier Blue on you

Preparations for the Olympics go on amid charges of bungling and worse

Everybody knows about the explosion of interest in spectator and participant sports that has been booming away in this country since the end of World War II: the extraordinary proliferation of...

CHANGES

•George Raveling, Washington State basketball coach, on life in the Northwest: "I won't say it's remote up here, but my last speech was reviewed in Field & Stream."

If you count the parades—and there is hardly any way to avoid them—there were roughly 14 hours of television devoted to the phenomenon known as the bowl game on New Year's Day 1979. And this...

Roly-poly freshman Mark Aguirre is a weighty problem for DePaul opponents

MIDEAST

SLY WILLIAMS: Rhode Island's 6'7" forward scored 26 points as the Rams triumphed over La Salle 83-80 and had 44 in a 77-76 loss to Detroit. In those games Williams also had 24 rebounds. 13 assists...

After trouncing Martina Navratilova on Sunday, it was back to high school on Monday for 16-year-old Tracy Austin

Two world records were set in the year's first major meet, the Muhammad Ali

Don Garlits wouldn't mind leaving the driving to someone else after 29 years of drag racing. The problem: no one can do it any better than Big Daddy