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...visible than in Tuscaloosa, home of the University of Alabama and Paul ("Bear") Bryant's mighty Crimson Tide. Bryant's teams have a record of 18 straight winning seasons, nine Southeastern Conference championships, including five in a row, three national rankings as No. 1, 17 trips to postseason bowls-and stunning defeats in their opening games for two straight seasons...
...A.F.C., only the Oakland Raiders face an easy path to postseason play. After an opening-game loss to the Buffalo Bills, the Raiders mowed down their next eight opponents with an awesome passing attack led by Quarterback Ken Stabler, and a tough, unyielding defense. Pittsburgh, the Central Division favorites, have been just as stubborn on defense, but the Steelers' offense has sagged, and they now find themselves in a tight battle with the Cincinnati Bengals. Though all but out of the running, the nettlesome Houston Oilers and Cleveland Browns both promise to torment the leaders in future weeks...
...departed to coach in the A.B.A. and Jerry West sidelined by injuries most of the year, the Los Angeles Lakers went into the final days of the regular season dangerously close to missing the play-offs for the first time since 1958. The Detroit Pistons, meanwhile, were qualifying for postseason play for the first time since...
...basketball and football for violating dozens of association rules. Among the Long Beach transgressions: moving one prospect's family to a home near the college, offering another money and jobs for his relatives, even repairing one candidate's wrecked car. For Long Beach, probation means no postseason competition or any participation in lucrative TV contracts. The only comfort was that the N.C.A.A. did not prohibit all further recruiting...
Clever people, those Orientals. Consider baseboru. For nearly three decades after the professional game was introduced to Japan in 1936, the native teams politely and honorably lost to visiting U.S. clubs in a series of postseason exhibition games. All along, of course, the Japanese players were learning while losing. Just how much they learned became shockingly clear to the San Francisco Giants last year. When they went to Japan to take on such supposed pushovers as the Taiyo Whales, Nankai Hawks and Chunichi Dragons, the Giants were clobbered in six out of nine games. Now, anxious to pick up more...