February 21, 1983 Table Of Contents

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HERE'S A FIRST NOVEL, WHICH, DESPITE SOME SNAGS, IS QUITE A GOOD CATCH

By Jeremiah Tax

The Sec

They're SECond To None

Top to bottom, Kentucky to Alabama, Southeastern Conference teams can claim more good players and greater balance than any other league in the land

By Curry Kirkpatrick

Another Small Step Toward Greatness

Marvelous Marvin Hagler squashed Tony Sibson and showed why he's one of history's best middleweights

By Pat Putnam

Shergar

Suddenly A Horse Was Gone

Kidnappers stole off with the famed Shergar to the anguish of all Ireland

By Clive Gammon

Ski Doctor

A Man Who Gets All The Breaks

Dick Steadman, the chief physician to the U.S. Ski Team, restores bent and beaten limbs to mint condition

By William Oscar Johnson

NBA Rookies

At the Head of His Class

Terry Cummings is preeminent among a trio of NBA rookies who graduated early to the pros and have more than made the grade

By Bruce Newman

The View From Section 16, Row EE

By Lisa Twyman

Track & Field

The quickest takeoff ever

No high jumper has hit the loftier levels as speedily as Jerome Carter

By Franz Lidz

College Basketball

This Wood pines for attention

Guard Leon Wood of Cal State-Fullerton gets points but no publicity

By Jack McCallum

THE WEEK (Feb. 7-13)

By Roger Jackson

We All Had A Ball

Here's the story of how a bunch of us over-35 guys played with the '69 Cubs, and of how I hit one that would've been out at Fenway, 'cept....

By Roy Blount Jr.

For The Record

A roundup of the week Feb. 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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