January 2, 1967 Table Of Contents

Author:
SI Staff

Philly To The Top

Pro basketball's strong-minded Alex Hannum was the last coach to beat the Boston Celtics for the championship, and he is determinedly driving his Philadelphia team to do it again. His moods on the bench—harshness, urgency, concentration—reflect qualities that have pushed the 76ers to the best record in NBA history

By Frank Deford

Big Ideas

UNDERDOGS WITH SOME GREAT BIG IDEAS

Buffalo should lose Sunday's AFL championship game to Kansas City, a better team, but don't bet on it. Such talk just makes the Bills feel mean, and belittled Bills score upsets

By Edwin Shrake

ASIA: BENEATH THE RISING SUN

When the Asian Games ended last week in Bangkok the Japanese had won the most medals, the Filipinos had skipped out on a sex test and the Thais had taken first honors for impromptu (and illegal) karate

By Marvin Zim

The Houston team is big enough to scare opponents silly, and it puts on the sport's wildest show

By Curry Kirkpatrick

Hockey

The poison ivy in the Ivy League

His methods and their manners may be anathema to the button-down-collar crowd, but Cornell's Ned Harkness and the players he lures from Canada's backwoods have made Ithaca a capital of college hockey

By Mark Mulvoy