February 7, 1972 Table Of Contents
Old Times
The Boston Celtics are riding high once more due to a blend of old pros and young hotshots, a canny coach, a cannier general manager—and perhaps because Willis Reed of the rival Knicks is sidelined
By Peter Carry
SCRAMBLE BACK TO THE DEEP PURPLE
Fancy-foot Fran Tarkenton, looking for a winner, returns to his old team—which means that Minnesota may well return to the Super Bowl
By Tex Maule
Ugly Affair
When an overpsyched Minnesota basketball team went berserk in a critical Big Ten game, Luke Witte and his Ohio State teammates were not the only victims; the entire sport emerged with a black eye
Mano A Raqueta
In Memphis the $30,000 question was, when a handball champion and a racquetball champion do their things, whose thing wins?
By Dan Levin
College Basketball
Horse Racing
That's what the fusty British racing Establishment wondered when the government appointed a mover and shaker to bring new life to the sport
Ballooning
Balloonists had a lark, soaring in their acid-laced candy drops
By Robert F. Jones
Track & Field
If you've got no money, try diploma power
Although little Adelphi can offer only three track scholarships, its mile-relay team has broken the world indoor record twice in three weeks
By Roy Blount Jr.
Jerry West
Jerry West has scored almost 30,000 points. If in five games he had got 10 more he would have won one NCAA and four NBA titles. But that is all he has missed. He's had the life, the glory, the laughs and ifs been
By Frank Deford
For The Record
A roundup of the week Jan. 25-31
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer