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COLLEGE BASKETBALL Another Irish Surprise Forget about football: Notre Dame toppled three Top 15 teams to prove it belongs in hoops' elite By Alexander Wolff COLLEGE FOOTBALL Ready for a Fiesta Willis McGahee carried Miami past Virginia Tech and into the title game By Kelley King PRO BASKETBALL Passion Player No one in the NBA competes harder than the Pacers' Ron Artest By L. Jon Wertheim TRIBUTE Roone Arledge In presenting the Olympics, Howard Cosell and much more, this visionary revolutionized sports TV By Frank Deford SPORTS BOOKS The Top 100 of All Time Sportswriting can be great literature, and here, to prove the point, are SI editors' choices of the very best		SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR Lance Armstrong For his courage and commitment -- not to mention his fourth straight Tour de France victory -- SI salutes the ultimate road warrior By Rick Reilly Images of Greatness A gallery of photos and SI covers encompassing all the Sportsmen (and -women) of the Year since the first, Roger Bannister, in 1954 By Mark Bowden PRO FOOTBALL Tampa Takes Charge On a Sunday of pivotal division matchups, the Bucs made the biggest statement by battering the Falcons By Michael Silver PRO HOCKEY Mighty Marty With his aggressive, high-risk style, the Stars' Marty Turco is playing goalie like nobody else By Daniel G. Habib