December 21, 1981 Table Of Contents

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The 49ers

Armed For The Playoffs

Under scholarly Bill Walsh, the 49ers have been a quick study in winning

By Paul Zimmerman

To Be Accurate, He's Not Inaccurate

By Rick Telander

Troubled Doubles And A Singular Singles

The U.S. won two tense matches to defeat Argentina for the Davis Cup

By Barry McDermott

Muhammad Ali

Not With A Bang But A Whisper

After losing to Trevor Berbick, a subdued Muhammad Ali softly admitted that his illustrious career had come to an end

By William Nack

Stipanovich

Reverberation Of A Gunshot

Mizzou Center Steve Stipanovich wounded himself a year ago and then made up a tale he's just now living down

By Curry Kirkpatrick

Tracy Austin

Rolling Onto A New Track

Tracy Austin has paid a steep price to reach the top in women's tennis. Now, at 19, she is having fewer ups and downs

By Sarah Pileggi

Seirawan

Yasser, That's My Baby

So Viktor Korchnoi indicated in picking Yasser Seirawan of the U.S. as his second. Now Yasser wants to be second to none

By William Nack

Horse Racing

Now it's two for the money

How a 2-year-old runs up the loot may decide whether it runs for the roses

By William Leggett

College Basketball

There's no cagin' the Cajuns

Southwestern Louisiana made gumbo of its rivals in the Bayou Classic

By Jack McCallum

THE WEEK (Dec. 7-13)

By Anthony Cotton

Pro Football

Return of the triple threat

St. Louis' Roy Green plays them all: offense, defense and special teams

By Craig Neff

Andre The Giant

To The Giant Among Us

That's no small beer on the right, it's a normal 12-ounce can in the hand of 7'4", 500-pound wrestler Andre the Giant. The glass is in the prodigious paw of the author, a former superheavyweight powerlifting champion, who describes what life is like for a man who has made the most of being the biggest

By Terry Todd

First Person

WHAT WAS A NICE GIRL LIKE THIS DOING IN GRID CLASS? MINDING HER X's AND O's

By Jill Lieber

For The Record

A roundup of the week Dec. 7-13

Compiled by N. Brooks Clark

19th: Hole The Readers Take Over

19TH: HOLE THE READERS TAKE OVER

Edited by Gay Flood

Departments

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Philip G. Howlett

SCORECARD

Edited By Jerry Kirshenbaum

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