Athletes
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Nov. 21, 1977
The winds of discontent howled through Boston and Philadelphia, leaving the Sixers a new coach and the Celtics all shook up
Brigham Young's explosive aerial attack fizzled as fireworks boomed to celebrate every Arizona State score in this WAC showdown
Both Montreal and Philadelphia were mired in slumps when they arrived in New York to play the Islanders. The Canadiens departed with a victory, the Flyers left with a tie and the anemic Islanders nursed their wounds
- By Joe Marshall
Lombardi's Packers won the first two Super Bowl games, but things haven't been the same since. The upstart AFC has not only won six of the last seven, this season it leads the NFC 11-3 in interconference games
- By Joe Marshall
Jane Frederick is No. 1 pentathlete in the U.S., but she wants to be first in the world—and to score 5,000 points
- By John Papanek
In his farewell performance for Yale, Tailback John Pagliaro was more than a match for Harvard's multiflex, leading the Elis to the Ivy League championship
Betty Cook, a 54-year-old grandmother, gunned her Scarab through tumultuous seas off Key West to win the world offshore powerboat championship by 16 miles
The McFaddin Ranch may not be the biggest spread around, but each year it finds room for 600,000 clamorous visitors—geese that drop in for the winter
- By Ray Kennedy
But it isn't a lullaby on New York's Upper West Side where Marty Reisman hustles all comers to the mesmeric plickety-plock-plick of Ping-Pong balls