April 3, 1978 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
WHEN BASEBALL'S FINEST MARCHED TO WAR, THE BROWNS DID AN ABOUT-FACE
NCAA Basketball
With Goose Givens cookin' for 41 points and Rick Robey for 20, Kentucky won its fifth national championship 94-88 over gutty young Duke
By Larry Keith
NO. 1 FOR THE WIZARDESS OF WESTWOOD
Billie Moore has picked up where John Wooden and his 10 titles left off, as her Bruins won the AIAW basketball championship
By Bruce Newman
Oh, Sparky Lyle's in the Yankees' camp, but baseball is an afterthought because he thinks he's being crowded out of the bullpen
By John Papanek
NCAA Swim
BALD IS BEAUTIFUL IF YOU'RE A VOLUNTEER
Tennessee ended USC's win streak in the NCAA swimming championships, and, amazingly, none of the Vols caught a cold
Spaghetti Racket
A WEIGHTY MATTER OF SPAGHETTI AND TENNIS BALLS
Antipasta and propasta factions have been clashing about the legitimacy of the notorious spaghetti racket. This July, the ITF makes its historic ruling
By J. D. Reed
TV/Radio
LIVING WITH DINKY RINK RATINGS
Tennis
Julie Anthony took the honors at the Avon Futures Championship in the Georgia Tech basketball pavilion, but there were some gifted youngsters right behind her
Boxing
He really could put his heart into it
He showed them a fast left and a newly polished right. He showed them he could take Earnie Shavers' best punch. And, accidentally, he showed them his fanny. But most of all, Larry Holmes showed the critics that he really could put his heart into it
By Pat Putnam
Horse Racing
CEM spells trouble in Kentucky
An outbreak of equine venereal disease has the breeders puzzled and worried
Falklands
Off the tip of South America, among the ghosts of wrecked ships and lost seamen, the bleak and windswept Falkland Islands provide the angler with some of the world's biggest sea-run browns
By Clive Gammon
As I Did It
A 15-YEAR-OLD SAILOR DISCOVERS HOW TO CLIMB THE WIND AND CRACK AN EGG
By Richard Bode
For The Record
A roundup of the week March 20-26
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Robert H. Boyle