March 5, 1979 Table Of Contents
The Tigers
Basketball has usually been bad ball at LSU ever since Bob Pettit left. Now, with Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside, bayou fans have had a ball watching the Tigers claw to the top of the SEC
By Larry Keith
CANDY WAS DANDY AND LIQUORI WAS QUICKER
...at least swift enough to win his third title at the AAU indoor track and field championships. But it was 16-year-old Candy Young who lit up Madison Square Garden with her dazzling world record in the hurdles
By Joe Marshall
The U.S. has a slick new $4.5 million Olympic luge run, the hemisphere's first. But, as usual, East Germany won the meet
By William Oscar Johnson
Lieberman
Lehigh's Mark Lieberman is not the most talented of college wrestlers, but he's the guttiest—and the best
By Douglas S. Looney
Back To School
By Jim Kaplan
College Basketball
Mad Dog used to be one of the most charged-up players in the NBA, but now Fred Carter gets his kicks as the successful coach of his alma mater's women's team
By Herman Weiskopf
TV/Radio
TWO MOUTHS ARE BETTER THAN ANYONE
By Larry Keith
Boxing
This was the fight that wasn't
Some stubborn bureaucrats who could not agree embarrassed their sport and KO'd the Galindez-Rossman title bout
By Pat Putnam
Leifsen
The author, heretofore your basic laid-back mom, found herself turned into an uptight stage mother when college basketball coaches came around to pursue her son, the center
Yesterday
NO PLAYOFF GAME WAS EVER AS FOULED UP AS SYRACUSE VS. BOSTON IN 1953
By Marc Onigman
For The Record
A roundup of the week Feb. 19-25
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum