January 3, 1972 Table Of Contents
Playoff
Garo Yepremian's field goal beats Kansas City in overtime to set up a Miami-Baltimore confrontation in the AFC, while Dallas and San Francisco gun their way into an NFC shoot-out in Texas
Playoffs
THE COWBOYS FLY―THE REDSKINS DIE
By Tex Maule
Appalled by the recent transformation of their favorite fanged beasts into pacifist Teddy bears, Boston hockey fans see ruin ahead. But the funny thing is these good little bears are winning, too
By Mark Mulvoy
Maryland was going to be the best this and the biggest that, but what it came up as was a victim of foot-in-mouth disease. For a while the case looked fatal, but then Lefty Driesell spoke even louder
Bridge
BLUES IN THE NIGHT FOR THE ACES
Italy's celebrated Blue Team comes out of retirement to overwhelm the world champions—and everybody else, too
College Basketball
Yes, you bet, and the name is Tripucka, yet. He is Tracy, son of Frank and a star on his own
Skiing
The Europeans were favored, as usual. Then along came America's Tyler Palmer, an hour late and ahead of them all
Pro Basketball
They had to let the dog go, but they kept the bite
A mascot is fine, but a good big man is finer—and now the Kentucky Colonels and Artis Gilmore are snapping their way through the ABA
Earnie Seiler
When Earnie Seiler stages an Orange Bowl, you get elephants, fireworks and, this New Year's Day, Nebraska-Alabama
For The Record
A roundup of the fortnight Dec. 14-27
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer