January 16, 1978 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A DIVERTING INSIDE LOOK AT BOXING AND AT ALI BY THE CHAMP'S DOCTOR
As I Saw It
A TEEN-AGER INSPIRED AN 87-YEAR-OLD TENNIS CHAMP TO PLAY ONE MORE GAME
Three For One
AND IT WAS STILL THREE FOR ONE
Although Jimmy Connors won the Colgate Grand Prix, he failed to settle the vexing question of who's No. 1—he, Borg or Vilas
COME, WATSON, THE GAME'S AFOOT
The call went out from Tucson for the first tournament of 1978 and last year's hero replied with a quick 63 and a win
By Dan Jenkins
Skiing in an ice fog so thick that contestants had to blink to keep their eyes from freezing shut, two sisters-in-law and a brain trainer were the big winners at Anchorage's national cross-country championships
By William Oscar Johnson
Super Bowl
THE ORANGE IS DOOMED TO BE CRUSHED
It will be Dallas' Doomsday II defense over Denver's Orange Crush in Super Bowl XII
By Joe Marshall
Brazil
THE SNOOK WITH THE FARAWAY LOOK
There's an awful lot of fish in Brazil but, as the author soon realized, the natives are, shall we say, reluctant to disclose their whereabouts
By Clive Gammon
College Basketball
Their hopes were shot to pieces
Favored for a change, Virginia was outgunned by the Tar Heels' hot hands
By Bill Brill
By Herman Weiskopf
Sooper Dooper
By Frank Deford
For The Record
A roundup of the week Jan. 2-8
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