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CONTENTS
12 Hi, Ben, Where Ya Been?
Ben Crenshaw, missing from the winner's circle since 1973, made it at the Crosby
by Dan Jenkins
16 Watched Pot That Boiled
Following three tepid seasons, Earl Tatum is Marquette's recipe for basketball success
by Larry Keith
18 Sweet Science, Indeed
Style was forsaken as George Foreman took out Ron Lyle the way he knows best
by Pat Putnam
20 A Seat at the Bull Ring
Behind the stormy facade of the team with the NBA's worst record lies...chaos
by Curry Kirkpatrick
1976 Winter Olympics
28 Innsbruck is set for the "simple Games," a better, not bigger, return to the Tyrol
30 William Oscar Johnson's saga is not about Olympic winners, but our lugers
36 Scouting reports by Anita Verschoth pick the medalists and darkhorses
64 The Lonely Hunter
Football scouts spend their days in empty stands, their nights in cheerless rooms
by George Plimpton
The Departments
9 Scorecard
50 College Basketball
54 Gymnastics
58 Americana
62 Conservation
77 For the Record
78 19th Hole
Credits on page 77
Cover photographs by Co Rentmeester and Helmut Gritscher
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Next Week
Southern hospitality has its limits, and Robert F. Jones will be at the Daytona 24-Hour to see if NASCAR-style stock cars will be able to stop Porsche from scoring its fifth straight win.
Chilly Philly hosts just about all the world's best tennis players, with Jimmy Connors seeded in the top spot for the U.S. Professional Indoor Championships. Curry Kirkpatrick is at courtside.
