February 5, 1968 Table Of Contents
Open Letter
The season just ended was pro football's most profitable. But in its very success may lie the seeds of boredom. Here Tex Maule, the game's best-known chronicler, describes the symptoms and suggests cures in an open letter to Commissioner Pete Rozelle
By Tex Maule
The action indoors was spread over five meets in three days and from one coast to the other. Some mighty strange things happened, but not to handsome Bob Seagren, who broke his own world record
By Pete Axthelm
Jerry Tarkanian draws so much basketball talent to his California junior college that four straight titles are only part of his achievement. He is the chief reason the JCs are a potent factor in the sport
By Joe Jares
The Winter Olympics
A FIGHT ON THE SLOPES, BUT A CINCH ON THE ICE
The Xth Winter Olympic Games, opening in Grenoble next week, will find 2,300 athletes from 38 nations scrambling for 35 gold, 35 silver and 35 bronze medals. And while it is the skaters who have the best chance of bringing home the gold, U.S. attention will be focused on the progress of our skiers. In this 27-page pre-Games package, the venues are mapped, the favorites are charted and the Alpine French, the bobbing Austrians, the hockey-playing Russians, the Nordic Norse and the speed-skating Dutch are introduced
By Dan Jenkins
The Other Americans: Keen Blades and Cautious Hopes
Grenoble and Its Vast Olympic Arena
Spread across three mountain ranges, the Olympic venues stretch from Autrans, high in the Vercors to the west of Grenoble, to Alpe d'Huez, in the Grandes Rousses massif to the east, only 13 air miles apart but 60 by car
Killy and Bonnet Girl Power Will Save the Day for France
By Dan Jenkins
For the Strong Austrian Two-man Bob Team, Waist Makes Haste
Russia Is Once Again a Nonstop Ice Machine
By Pete Axthelm
Norway Will Run—and Jump—Away with the Nordic Events
By Bob Ottum
Kees and Crew Are Going To Put a Stopper in Holland's Gold Drain
By Gwilym S. Brown
People
Tennis
An open-minded boss for a bunch of old goats
Robert Kelleher has given the dusty USLTA one year of progressive leadership, but his influence will be tested when officials vote whether or not to allow U.S. amateurs to participate in an open Wimbledon
By Bud Collins
Bridge
The tricky technique with the sexy title
Not A Bird
He's Not a Bird, He's Not a Plane
He is Evel Knievl, self-styled conservative wildman—here soaring over the fountains of a Las Vegas hotel—who intends to jump the Grand Canyon on a motorcycle
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Basketball's Week
By Mervin Hyman
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By Garry Valk