4—George Tiedemann (right), Jay Leviton-Atlanta24, 26—Ronald C. Modra27—Paul Kennedy32, 33—Mickey Pfleger (top), Richard Mackson (2)34, 35—Peter Read Miller (top left), Richard Mackson (2)50—Peter...

PRO BASKETBALL—The court had two Kings as brothers Bernard, of the Warriors, and Albert, of the Nets, met in their first professional confrontation, a 121-107 win for Golden State. The Warriors...

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BEAR REACTIONSSir:As Alabama alumni, we deplore your treatment of Coach Bear Bryant, the University of Alabama and the state of Alabama ("I Do Love the Football," Nov. 23). In our opinion, the...

"THEY SHOULD BE FOR YOU"

•Jack Rothrock, Greensboro, N.C. businessman who played center for Guilford College in a 60-6 loss to Bear Bryant's Maryland team in 1945, the first of Bryant's 314 coaching victories: "The thing...

Richard Todd, despite a broken rib and a bum ankle, passed the Jets to a thriller of a win over Miami and into first in the AFC East

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Washington earned its Rose Bowl berth in an intrastate showdown

The unlikely hero and his coach danced at midfield like a couple of inebriated circus bears. A few seconds earlier, on the final play of the game, 6'5", 260-pound, Samoan-born Nose Guard George...

Check your local listings and you'll see a schedule of games being played this season only because two television networks have gone to war over hoops

"Coaching basketball at UCLA has become like the presidency, maybe too much like it," says Senior Writer Curry Kirkpatrick, whose story on Bruin coaches starts on page 98 of this, our annual...

Dominique Wilkins turned down the pros, and that turns on Georgians who love his leaping

1 North Carolina

It all started innocently enough last year. I'm an indifferent athlete, whose best sport is watching sport, and, while idly twisting the TV dial in search of some entertainment, I suddenly came...

Leading candidates for the NCAA field are the Top 20 and these 28

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If their bloodlines mean a thing, Evelyn Johnson and Medina Dixon will make South Carolina a too contender for the NCAA women's title

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With one last fling Jim McMahon became the top college passer—ever

MIDWEST

OFFENSE: Iowa Tailback Phil Blatcher, a 5'8", 188-pound senior, rushed for 247 yards and two TDs in the Rose Bowl-bound Hawkeyes' 36-7 win over Michigan State. His longest run was 46 yards.

Baseball is back on Broadway with a lively musical about Jackie Robinson

Three rushed in where Wooden used to tread—then split. Now comes the fourth, Larry Farmer, truest of true believers