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January 12, 1976 Table Of Contents

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Championships

THE STEELERS ARE ON THE LOOSE

And so was the football much of the time as Pittsburgh fumbled and bumbled and rumbled past Oakland to the Super Bowl

By Mark Mulvoy

SNO-FLO, FROST-GUARD AND HOMEMADE MUFFS

By Roy Blount Jr.

DALLAS COMING OF AGE? ROGER!

By Dan Jenkins

A CAVALIER ATTITUDE IS PAYING OFF

When Cleveland was losing, Bill Fitch told a lot of jokes. Nowadays he doesn't need gags to cheer up his winning players

By Pat Putnam

Bowl Games

OHIO STATE FOLDS, IT'S OKLAHOMA'S POT

When the Buckeyes gambled with passes and lost to UCLA, the Sooners cashed in to win the national title

By John Underwood

WHEN IT CAME TO PASS, UCLA KNEW HOW

By Joe Jares

WIN A BATTLE, LOSE A WAR

By Larry Keith

TV/Radio

YEAR OF HIGHS AND HYPES

By William Leggett

College Basketball

Gophers get out of a hole

Beset by defections and an NCAA probe, Minnesota has rallied around a Bahamian center and a coach who stresses the joys of competing

By Douglas S. Looney

THE WEEK

By Herman Weiskopf

Tennis

The doc who tells you what's up

If you play the game until it hurts, specialist Robert Nirschl will help to ease those throbbing joints

By Jim Kaplan

Horses

Nobody's a marshmallow at Fetlock U.

Horses are the subject of many courses at Lake Erie, a women's college in Ohio to which students may bring their own mounts. Any overweight they might also bring along is soon lost via the school's riding program

By D. Alexandra Stathoplos

Skiing

The short paws that refreshes

Shooting

Gunning for a market

A Japanese company hits the target by building prestige shotguns for sale in the U.S. at a modest price

By Virginia Kraft

Right Moves

Making All the Right Moves

Walter Browne is briefly motionless, not the normal state for this go-go grandmaster who feels he can beat anybody at anything—and the Russians at chess

By Ray Kennedy

For The Record

A roundup of the week Dec. 29-Jan. 4

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Edited by Gay Flood

Departments

SCORECARD

Edited by Robert W. Creamer

CREDITS

FACES IN THE CROWD