January 3, 1966 Table Of Contents

Author:
SI Staff

NFL Championship

On the verge of defeat at the hands of fate and a fanatical Baltimore defense, the favored Packers turned the playoff game around and, in sudden-death overtime, won a shot at the Browns

By Tex Maule

AFL Championship

THE BILLS COME STORMING IN

When Buffalo finished belaboring the once-wonderful San Diego offense and scoring a few points of its own, the Bills not only had their second AFL championship but also the first shutout in title play

By Edwin Shrake

RIG FOR SEA-AND SHOWTIME

The season broke out early in New Zealand and Australia as Kenya's effervescent Kipchoge Keino and an agonizing Wagnerian from East Germany, J√ºrgen May, went far out to prove the mile mark is for breaking

By Gwilym S. Brown

Pro Basketball

A race in the West, a shoo-in in the East

Baltimore's new coach and an old hand at center have the Bullets pressing the Lakers, with the Warriors expected to move up. But Boston has started to show that the only games it has to fear are in the playoffs

By Frank Deford

Berkeley

TO THE BIG GAME AND TO THE BARRICADES

The hawkers of protest have made the University of California at Berkeley a symbol of campus unrest. Far more typical are the students whose interests embrace both education and revolt, both football and Vietnam. They make Cal exciting and stimulating

By Alfred Wright

Basketball's Week

Basketball's Week

It was a week that some very good teams would just as soon forget. The unpredictable rigors of the road proved to be too much for unbeaten St. Joseph's, Providence, Wichita State, Minnesota and Colorado State. They all lost for the first time—away from home—while powerful Michigan succumbed twice, more or less expectedly to Duke and quite unexpectedly to little Butler. But despite the usual vagaries of college basketball a baker's dozen major teams nervously managed to survive. After four weeks of play Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Auburn, Bradley, Iowa, DePaul, Dayton, Temple, Syracuse, Brigham Young, Utah, Washington State and Texas Western were still undefeated

By Mervin Hyman