February 9, 1976 Table Of Contents
New Sprit
Jimmy Connors rang in the Bicentennial year in Philly with a changed image—"from awful to fair," he says—and a bell-clanging victory
Tom Woods was the class of a classy field at New York's Millrose Games
By Pat Putnam
First BMW driver Peter Gregg complained of food poisoning, but the real agony for his victorious team was the discovery of mysteriously watered fuel
By Robert F. Jones
Bernie And Ernie
IT'S THE BERNIE AND ERNIE SHOW
New Yorkers King and Grunfeld, the country's most dazzling scoring combo, have upstaged Tennessee's SEC foes with their shooting and shenanigans
Young Blades
By Jim Kaplan
College Basketball
Western Michigan (16-0) is a new big shot, but just in its hometown
By Kent Hannon
By Herman Weiskopf
TV/Radio
Pro Basketball
Halftime at the ABA All-Star Game featured a mind-blowing spectacle in which the Doctor was too much
By John Papanek
Olympics
OLYMPIC NIGHTMARE FOR MONTREAL
Beset by labor problems, rising costs, construction headaches and adverse weather, the city is racing the clock to get its facilities in working order for the opening of the Games on July 17
For The Record
A roundup of the week Jan. 26-Feb. 1
19th Hole: The Readers Takeover
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKEOVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Robert H. Boyle