January 24, 1972 Table Of Contents
TV Talk
If you can hit it, catch it or kick it, you'll probably find it on the tube in '72
By Gwilym S. Brown
Cowboy Stampede
Dallas had the horses to defeat Miami in Duane Thomas, Walt Garrison and Calvin Hill, and they all ran wild in the Super Bowl, leaving the Dolphins floundering in a cloud of dust—well, Poly-Dust
By Tex Maule
Crooning
Unaccountably blessed by four straight days of dazzling sunshine, the Crosby was never more exquisite—and the result never more familiar. Foul weather or fair, Jack Nicklaus calls the tune
By Dan Jenkins
BACK-TO-SCHOOL TIME FOR TERRY DANIELS
Champion Joe Frazier gave his young challenger a cram course in the left hook, and then sent him back to SMU to study law
By Ron Fimrite
Superskier
First put aside the full-time practitioners, all the ski instructors, racers, patrolmen and such distinctive professional showoffs as Stein Eriksen. Concentrate instead on the weekend schussers and part-time boomers, the recreational hot dogs whose practice has made them practically perfect—and what emerges is a gallery of America's best skiers at play
People
College Basketball
He came from UCLA, he talks as though he were UCLA and he has his Louisville team playing like UCLA, which spells trouble for—UCLA
By Herman Weiskopf
Hockey
Buffalo fans haven't much to cheer except the scoring of wondrous Rick Martin, who just might become the NHL's first 50-goal rookie
By Robert F. Jones
Pro Basketball
You make the most with what you got
And what Memphis has now got is more stockholders than All-Stars
By Peter Carry
Richie
As a showboating youth, it was applause and the promise of celebrity, but then the clapping stopped and heroin became his substitute goal
By Pat Jordan
For The Record
A roundup of the week Jan. 11-17
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
Edited by Robert W. Creamer