January 15, 1979 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
LET'S GIVE A SESQUIPEDALIAN CHEER FOR THE OLD SYNERGISTIC BALL GAME
NFL Playoffs
Pittsburgh got the drop on Houston in the rain-drenched, fumble-filled AFC title game, smashing the Oilers 34-5 to set up a Super Bowl rendezvous with Dallas
By Joe Marshall
By Dan Jenkins
Bullets
A BULLET OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER
Washington has the best record in the NBA, due in no small part to the magic of Small Forward Bobby Dandridge
Don Cherry
Don't cross Don (Grapes) Cherry, hockey's most dapper and outspoken coach, lest he sic one of his Boston Bruins or his bullterrier Blue on you
Lake Placid
Preparations for the Olympics go on amid charges of bungling and worse
TV/Radio
IF BOWLS WERE YOUR DISH, MMMM!
By William Oscar Johnson
College Basketball
Roly-poly freshman Mark Aguirre is a weighty problem for DePaul opponents
By Bruce Newman
By Herman Weiskopf
Tennis
After trouncing Martina Navratilova on Sunday, it was back to high school on Monday for 16-year-old Tracy Austin
By Clive Gammon
Track & Field
Two world records were set in the year's first major meet, the Muhammad Ali
Big Daddy
Don Garlits wouldn't mind leaving the driving to someone else after 29 years of drag racing. The problem: no one can do it any better than Big Daddy
By Bruce Newman
For The Record
A roundup of the Week Jan. 1-7
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Douglas S. Looney