December 12, 1977 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
ROCKY'S FIRST FILM WAS ALL FISTS, AND NOW HIS FIRST NOVEL IS ALL THUMBS
The Other Hand
Old Pudgy, better known as Olympic champion Vasily Alexeyev, hurt his right wrist before last week's bizarre meet in Las Vegas and this was the result. He didn't set any records, which wasn't the only thing that went wrong
THREE ISLANDERS UNTO THEMSELVES
The Trio Grande of NHL scoring leader Bryan Trottier, top goal producer Mike Bossy and senior citizen Clark Gillies, who is all of 23, has kept the New York Islanders within shooting distance of the Philadelphia Flyers
ISN'T IT WARM, ISN'T IT COZY, SIDE BY SIDE
Putting two and two together, the PGA and LPGA came up with a honey of a tournament that had the pros hugging happily
Ohio State
A BIG CHANGE IN THE AFFAIRS OF STATE
Under Fred Taylor, Ohio State went from top to bottom in college basketball. Now a new man is reviving the older Taylor tradition
By Larry Keith
Alzado
Off the field, Lyle Alzado is a tireless worker for charitable causes; on it he shows no mercy as the head pulper for Denver's Orange Crush defense
Old Comrades
TAUT DUEL FOR TWO OLD COMRADES
They grew up together in Russia and meet again for the right to face the champion, but one is a defector, the other an émigré
By J. D. Reed
TV/Radio
By Bruce Newman
College Basketball
The University of Nevada's northern branch has a marvelous but little known center in 6'10" Edgar Jones, who hurts opponents even when he himself is injured
By Joe Jares
By Herman Weiskopf
Pro Football
One giant step for L.A. while Oakland limps
The Rams clinched their division title with a 20-14 victory over the Raiders, who with a hobbled quarterback now face a struggle just to make the playoffs
By Joe Marshall
Soccer
Dwarfed by USF, little Hartwick took the NCAA title from the defending champs
By J. D. Reed
Pro Basketball
Big men the Knicks got, but a team they ain't
Beloved New York superhero Willis Reed was lured out of retirement by the idea that he could inspire his old club to play the way he did. It has not been easy
By John Papanek
Fads
If you've read it, just stick around, there'll be another on the next car
By J. D. Reed
Alaska
From the air, Alaska's pond-pocked Tikchik Lakes country appears sterile and forbidding, but it teems with Arctic char, grayling and rainbows as well as great flocks of waterfowl
By Robert F. Jones
By Robert F. Jones
For The Record
A roundup of the week Nov. 28-Dec. 4
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Robert H. Boyle