February 19, 1979 Table Of Contents
Millrose Games
...by almost all. The trouble was that Eamonn Coghlan and Renaldo Nehemiah celebrated too soon to have great times
By Joe Marshall
ANOTHER GRAND SLAM IS BID AND MADE
By employing all his tricks on Guillermo Vilas and Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg won at BocaWest for the third straight year
Sub-zero shivers plagued the pre-Olympic meet at Lake Placid, but the town showed it was set for the Games
By William Oscar Johnson
The Soviets
RUN OVER BY THE BIG RED MACHINE
The Soviet National Team flew home as champions of the hockey world after making so much borscht of the NHL All-Stars, routing them 6-0 in the finale of the three-game Challenge Cup series and leaving all Canada in shock
By E. M. Swift
Crested Butte
Crested Butte is a beaut of a spot whose mountain glows in the sunset, but a mine could make it a molehill
By Sam Moses
Kenyon Swimming
Kenyon swims in a glass house, but for 25 years no one has had a ghost of a chance of breaking its streak
TV
HOW MANY MESSAGES FOR THIS MEDIUM?
By William Oscar Johnson
Basketball
The scramble for talented 7-footers centers on three giant high schoolers
By Bruce Newman
By Herman Weiskopf
Baseball
This off-season is proving that trades are no longer the owners' stock in trade
By Melissa Ludtke Lincoln
Horse Racing
The early favorites for the Kentucky Derby, Spectacular Bid and Flying Paster, who have never raced each other, had impressive opening wins in Florida and California
Poker
Deep-sixed by a six in the hole
Red Bone had the edge in the Amarillo Slim Classic until George Huber (above) straightened him out to win $150,000
Moses Malone
Moses Malone jumped from high school to the pros, where he has become the game's top rebounder
By Frank Deford
For The Record
A roundup of the week Feb. 5-11
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum