January 29, 1973 Table Of Contents
Pro Tennis
FIRST A MASSAGE, THEN A MESSAGE
Rod Laver got one and Dick Stockton the other as the WCT started a four-month tour that will reach the world's capitals and crannies. While the Aussie won in Miami, reports from Wales were foggy
By Joe Jares
MEANWHILE, AT THE DEESIDE LEISURE CENTRE
By Clive Gammon
But not outdoors in L.A., where the hedonistic Kings sun and surf. The trouble is, they freeze on the road
By Mark Mulvoy
What were the tiny flying tiger (above) and the little bitty bomb doing? They were merely stealing the show at The Great Miami Air Race—and proving that it is always nicer to win one for the nippers
By Ron Fimrite
And Baltimore is loaded. The return of Archie Clark, the acquisition of Elvin Hayes and the transformation of Mike Riordan have made it an explosive team, one with a real shot at the NBA title
By Peter Carry
Sticks
SHOULD HE STICK TO THE STICKS?
Sandy Hawley is unknown around big-time racetracks, but he could be the best bet of 1973. Last year he won more often than any other jockey riding in North America
Learning
College Basketball
Black may or may not yet be beautiful at the University of Alabama, but it is bountiful for sure now, turning an old conference inside out
By Pat Putnam
Track & Field
Search your soul, then run like blazes
Which is what Steve Prefontaine, tender of knee and sore of spirit, did last Saturday in the Sunkist Meet's two-mile race. He hadn't looked so good—or sounded so cocky—since the happy days before Munich
By Ron Reid
Motor Sports
Putting his Mark on the season
By Robert F. Jones
For The Record
A roundup of the week Jan. 16-22
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
Edited by Robert W. Creamer
George Foreman, big and confident, surprised everybody but himself by taking the world title from Joe Frazier. What next? At least three good challengers—the heavyweight division lives again!
By Edwin Shrake