TV Talk
ABC was tight in its season opener, but it fielded a team to keep an eye on
By Frank Deford
The Big Man
Willie Stargell, they all said, was the player who could make the Pittsburgh Pirates go. Last weekend he did and, man enough to win or lose, the Bucs' natural leader took winning in his stride
By Roy Blount Jr.
THAT BIG RED MACHINE HAS DEVELOPED A FEW SPUTTERS
Weary Aerie
The Philadelphia Eagles are tired of losing, particularly a bunch known as the Antibodies, who have long hair and high hopes
By Robert F. Jones
Discord Defied
"Trouble," people with an eye for that sort of thing said when Frank Robinson was traded to Baltimore. And trouble was exactly what did not develop as the Robinsons, Frank and Brooks, struck a delicate, winning balance
By Mark Kram
People
College Football
For Easterners, prospecting doesn't pay off
Penn State took a trip to the Rockies seeking victory No. 24, only to get buried in a Buffalo stampede. As a result, blasé Colorado students have decided that football is almost as much fun as parties and pot
By Dan Jenkins
Sporting Look
New touches on the oldtime look of leather
By Ruth Lieder
Roller Derby
Don't tell your friends who won the series
A lot of Roller Derby fans are happy to wait until the videotape turns up in their area to find out who the world champions are, so let's keep it a secret. Between us, here's what happened at San Francisco
By Frank Deford
Harness Racing
With his neatly named colt, Stanley Dancer captured pacing's top prize, but it took him three heats and the winning edge was a neck
IN A LAND OF GREEN, A TOUCH OF BLUE
When the great northern pike of Lough Allen turned up their vicious noses at traditional Irish spoons, a blue Swedish plug cast the spell that lured them from the depths
By Clive Gammon
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert Creamer
