August 9, 1976 Table Of Contents
Shopwalk
ALMOST ANYTHING GOES WITH A HORSE TRADER, EVEN MUSTARD ON THE FROGS
By Michael DelNagro
ANOTHER PUT-UP JOB, THE PORTABLE TENNIS COURTS GO WHEREVER YOU GO
By Joe Jares
Booktalk
PUTTING UP WITH PAIN IN A TREATISE TENNIS HYPOCHONDRIACS WILL ADORE
The Montreal Olympics
The decathlon vault lasted five hours, and when it was over the success of Bruce Jenner's life was assured
By Frank Deford
OH, BROTHERS—THEY PUT PUNCH INTO IT
The young U.S. boxing team prayed and preyed together, dominating the favored, more mature Communist fighters and winning five golds, a silver and a bronze
By Pat Putnam
A DIFFERENT TWIST IN THIS BROTHER ACT
John Peterson became a champion, but brother Ben, a Munich titlist, dropped a notch after he met a great ol' Soviet Georgia boy
The sobersided, untested U.S. basketball team was too quick, too clever and, simply, too much for the Yugoslavs or any other men's squad
By Frank Deford
NOW MAYBE HIS WIFE WILL LISTEN
By Herman Weiskopf
To the swell of lively music, thousands of dreams had marched into Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Last Sunday the music stopped, with hundreds of dreams fulfilled in gold, silver and bronze, and we salute the medalists
TV/Radio
Baseball
THE AMERICAN LEAGUE HAS LOGIC ON ITS SIDE IN PROPOSING DESIGNATED HITTERS FOR THE WORLD SERIES. BUT IT MAY NOT HAVE THE BEST BATTERS FOR THE JOB
By Jim Kaplan
By Larry Keith
Boomer Sooner
Barry Switzer, who was raised under a tar-paper roof in a swamp bottom, says he just likes to coach country boys out to have a yahooing good time playing Oklahoma football
By Ray Kennedy
For The Record
A roundup of the week July 26-Aug. 1
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Douglas S. Looney