Holding the ball aloft, Ray Tolbert and his Indiana teammates walked off with the Big Ten crown by beating Ohio State

Georgians suddenly turned on to the alien sport of hockey last week, giving a lavish welcome to Olympic Goalie Jim Craig, whose pro debut with the Atlanta Flames was a rousing success, on and off...

Turning Olympic gold into NHL greenbacks was the order of the week, not only for Jim Craig, but also for six other members of the U.S. Olympic hockey team. Center Mark Johnson signed a three-year,...

Born in the Bay Area 51 years ago, Billy Martin is back in the neighborhood as manager of Charlie Finley's downtrodden Oakland A's, an assignment that, given the personalities of the principals,...

With Muhammad Ali overweight as well as overage, the heavyweight division is the pits, but some young boxers could pull it out of the hole

Hoop heaven, the NCAA tournament, opens its portals to 48 teams in a frantic week of action that will reduce that record number to 16. Curry Kirkpatrick assesses the survivors and predicts which...

The Minnesota Fillies and the rest of the players in the WBL go for broke on the floor, while their struggling franchises go all but broke at the box office

Although Weber State, 26-2, won its conference, the NCAA test lay ahead

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DeWAYNE SCALES: Louisiana State's 6'9" junior forward carried the Tigers to three victories and the SEC playoff championship with an MVP performance that included a total of 68 points, 26 rebounds...

Earl Bell (vertical) and Larry Myricks (horizontal) measured up in the Garden

The use of a psychologist is among the different strokes making Iowa a power

For 45 years, James Francis Elliott has been coach of track at Villanova, bringing home more silverware than he knows what to do with. And it's only a part-time job

ON CHANGING THE ENDING

•Billy Paultz, on the adjustment he had to make after being traded from the San Antonio Spurs to his new team, the Houston Rockets: "The warmup pants here have snaps. That's more complicated than...

10, 11—Andy Hayt12—Rich Clarkson13—Andy Hayt17—Tony Triolo18, 19—Carl Iwasaki20—Fred Kaplan (top), Carl Iwasaki27—Manny Millan28, 29—R. J. Capak (top), Manny Millan43—Rod Hanna50—Harrison...

BASKETBALL—Kansas City is two games ahead of Milwaukee in the Midwest, but one wouldn't have known it from the result of their encounter early in the week. The Bucks won 94-72, holding the Kings...

JOHN HARJUTWO HARBORS, MINN.Harju, a 23-year-old carpenter, won the first Wilderness Trek cross-country ski race at Ely, Minn. over a field of 73. He skied the 46-kilometer course in 2:49:42,...

THE GAMESSir:And on the Eighth Day, God created the U.S. Olympic hockey team.CARL NIXONBarberton, Ohio