
November 21, 1977 Table Of Contents
As I See It
SPORTS SLANG WAS ONCE VOTED DOWN, BUT THE BALLOTING WASN'T BINDING
By George Gipe
Shopwalk
THE NEW YEAR'S SPORTING CALENDARS RUN THE GAMUT FROM ARTFUL TO ZANY
Sixers-Celtics
The winds of discontent howled through Boston and Philadelphia, leaving the Sixers a new coach and the Celtics all shook up
NARY A BOMB IN THE ROCKETS' RED GLARE
Brigham Young's explosive aerial attack fizzled as fireworks boomed to celebrate every Arizona State score in this WAC showdown
Both Montreal and Philadelphia were mired in slumps when they arrived in New York to play the Islanders. The Canadiens departed with a victory, the Flyers left with a tie and the anemic Islanders nursed their wounds
AFC Vs. NFC
VINCE, YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT
Lombardi's Packers won the first two Super Bowl games, but things haven't been the same since. The upstart AFC has not only won six of the last seven, this season it leads the NFC 11-3 in interconference games
By Joe Marshall
Frederick
PLAINLY, JANE HAS A PENCHANT FOR THE PENTATHLON
Jane Frederick is No. 1 pentathlete in the U.S., but she wants to be first in the world—and to score 5,000 points
By Joe Marshall
TV/Radio
TRENCHANT WORDS FROM A TALKING HEAD
College Football
In his farewell performance for Yale, Tailback John Pagliaro was more than a match for Harvard's multiflex, leading the Elis to the Ivy League championship
By John Papanek
By Herman Weiskopf
Boating
Taking a thrashing—and giving one
Betty Cook, a 54-year-old grandmother, gunned her Scarab through tumultuous seas off Key West to win the world offshore powerboat championship by 16 miles
Skateboards
A thriller for the downhillers
Adding snaking turns to straightaways gave a hairy new twist to the sport
By Sam Moses
Hunting
The McFaddin Ranch may not be the biggest spread around, but each year it finds room for 600,000 clamorous visitors—geese that drop in for the winter
Night Music
But it isn't a lullaby on New York's Upper West Side where Marty Reisman hustles all comers to the mesmeric plickety-plock-plick of Ping-Pong balls
By Ray Kennedy
For The Record
A roundup of the week Nov. 7-13
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Robert H. Boyle