June 28, 1976 Table Of Contents
Viewpoint
HOW TO PUT UP A BASKETBALL HOOP THAT'S BOTH TOO LOW AND TOO HIGH
By Douglas S. Looney
Footloose
OUT OF THE LOCKER ROOM AND INTO THE AIR WITH THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
By J. D. Reed
Shopwalk
WHAT HAS FOUR LEGS AND IS BRINGING A LOT OF NEW INVESTORS ON THE RUN?
By Nancy McKeon
Great Pate
Hitting a heroic iron out of the rough on the final hole, the lean 22-year-old became the youngest man to win the U.S. Open championship since Jack Nicklaus in 1962
By Dan Jenkins
Bowie And Charlie
Acting with uncharacteristic decisiveness, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn voided Charlie Finley's $3.5 million sale of three Oakland A's stars and so threw the world of baseball into tendentious turmoil
By Ron Fimrite
HE'S BASEBALL'S NOT-SO-SECRET AGENT
By Larry Keith
Good Times
GOOD TIMES BY A GANG OF CUT-UPS
The U.S. men carved each other up to shape a potent Olympic squad, but of the women only Shirley Babashoff was sharp
Baseball
Could Eastern Michigan, a small school in the long-john latitudes, find happiness in the College World Series? Yes, but Arizona found a bit more
By Douglas S. Looney
By Herman Weiskopf
Horse Racing
East and West, the handicap stars were dimmed and soundly drubbed
Cycling
When Olympic Coach Jackie Simes chose the pursuit team, Innsbruck champion Sheila Young saw him tap both her brother and her fiancé
Pro Basketball
So long, ABA. Four teams were swallowed by the NBA and the other two will be scattered to the winds—and the bottom-liners shed not a tear
By Frank Deford
Boxing
The second fight between George Foreman and Joe Frazier turned out to be a repeat of the first, with Frazier beaten, and this time for good
For The Record
A roundup of the week June 13-19
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Robert W. Creamer