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This article discusses sports in the town of Augusta, Georgia. For one week a year, in mid-April, Augusta is the center of the sporting universe. There's no school in Augusta during Masters week, and good luck getting into the T-Bonz steak house, just down Washington Road from the Augusta National entrance, unless you're Fuzzy Zoeller or some other golfing notable. But then the tournament ends, and school resumes, and the old Southern city-slash-endless strip mall returns to its off-season ways. Now when wrestling comes to town, it's held at the charmless Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center, but that doesn't mean everybody plays nice. It's where the occasional boxing match is held, where the Harlem Globetrotters play annually, where the monster truck competitions take place and where the Augusta Lynx, a minor league hockey team, play about three dozen home dates a year.

The article discusses various issues related to sports in the U.S. in October 1977. Augusta National Golf Club president Clifford Roberts shot himself after being ill for several months in Georgia. The U.S. administration has decided not to grant a presidential pardon to Emprise Corp., which was convicted of interstate transportation to aid racketeering and conspiracy in 1972. The trustees of the estate of the late former Major League Baseball executive Tom Yawkey has decided to sell the Boston Red Sox team to a group led by Haywood Sullivan.