Bullets
Amazing Atlanta took the defending NBA champion Bullets to seven stirring games in the Eastern Conference semifinals, then the Big E and Bobby D made the Hawks' feathers fly
Astros
IT'S NO LONGER ONLY DOME SWEET HOME
Houston, blasting out of the Astrodome to lead the National League West, is showing a rare talent for playing A-OK on the road
By E. M. SWIFT
Big Guys
A BIGGIE OF A MEET AT MAC AND AL'S
Was it a party? A protest? Serious competition? There were elements of all three at the Two Big Guys Mountain Games when Mac Wilkins and Al Feuerbach invited some friends in to throw their weight around
Birders
A team of birders used a mechanical dragon and a plane to cover the Southwest in a try for a new 24-hour world sighting record, but, alas, the jet lagged and the warblers lammed
By Clive Gammon
Movies
By Joe Jares
Baseball
By Jim Kaplan
Horse Racing
The East's Spectacular Bid, complete with flamboyant trainer and embattled jockey, and the West's Flying Paster, of a quieter camp, finally meet in the Derby
Bowling
The Lions and Bears won the alley fight
Penn State's Lady Lions and California's coachless Bears won collegiate titles
By Herman Weiskopf
Track & Field
In the unusual role of a relay anchor, No. 1 hurdler Renaldo Nehemiah makes Penn Relays '79 one to remember
By Ron Reid
Lord Byron
In those days he was Lord Byron and set records still unequaled. Then, at 34, Byron Nelson quit the game to fulfill an old dream
For The Record
A roundup of the week April 23-29
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum
