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January 12, 1976 Table Of Contents
Championships
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.
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
WHEN IT CAME TO PASS, UCLA KNEW HOW
By Joe Jares
By Larry Keith
TV/Radio
College Basketball
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
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
Skiing
Shooting
A Japanese company hits the target by building prestige shotguns for sale in the U.S. at a modest price
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
Edited by Robert W. Creamer