May 14, 1979 Table Of Contents
Yesterday
THE SPHAs DID SOME FANCY STEPPING DOWN AT THE BROADWOOD BALLROOM
Booktalk
IN A FUNNY, MOVING NOVEL, A COACH AND HIS TEAM LEARN ABOUT WINNING
Footloose
IF JOGGING IS TOO MINDLESS AND CHESS TOO SEDENTARY, TRY JOGGER'S CHESS
By Lowell Cohn
Kentucky Derby
Spectacular Bid and his 19-year-old jockey, Ronnie Franklin, confounded the critics with a come-from-behind win in the Kentucky Derby, triggering talk of yet another Triple Crown
By Clive Gammon
THE YANKEES NOW SPELL RELIEF G-U-I-D-R-Y
With his team hurting because bullpen ace Rich Gossage is injured, the game's best starter offered to relieve—and promptly won
By Douglas S. Looney
N.Y. Vs. N.Y.
N.Y. VS. N.Y.: IT'S ALL-OUT WARFARE
The balance in the battle for New York hockey supremacy tipped toward the upstart Rangers as they all but shut out the Islanders' Big Four while taking a three-games-to-two lead in their Stanley Cup semifinal showdown
By E.M. Swift
No Cigar
Alberto Juantorena and his band of fellow Cubans came out smoking in the UCLA meet, but Americans beat them to the tape every time
By Pat Putnam
Movies
THE OTHER GAMES WITHIN THE GAME
By William Oscar Johnson
Baseball
A shortstop who's long on smarts
Roy Smalley, the American League's best, has brains—and now some brawn
By Jim Kaplan
Soccer
The swift, aggressive French national team came to the Meadowlands and gave the U.S. national team a lesson in world-class soccer—by socking it to them
By J. D. Reed
Pro Basketball
All eight teams in the women's league lost a bundle, but not their optimism
Larry Kenon and fellow Spur egos have enfevered a win-starved populace
By John Papanek
Squash
And in today's bustling game that is a worthy achievement. But a contender Stu Goldstein may remain indefinitely unless he develops a champion's killer instinct
By Jim Kaplan
Tennis
Playing superbly, John McEnroe took on the world's best players, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors, back to back and overwhelmed them to win the WCT championship
Ironman
To earn that title, Tom Warren victoriously swam 2.4 miles through rough seas, bicycled 112 miles and all ran a marathon, all in a single day of agony
As I See It
LIKE HITTING HOMERS, HITTING HIGH NOTES IN OPERA TAKES ATHLETIC SKILL
By Sean Kellogg
For The Record
A roundup of the week April 30-May 6
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
Edited By Robert H. Boyle