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2000s
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6•5•2000 |
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A day after this cover appearance Anna Kournikova is bounced from the French Open
in the second round, the earliest she has exited a Grand Slam in three
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9•4•2000 |
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After Week 1, Chargers quarterback Ryan Leaf has gone 17 for
39 with three interceptions. He throws seven more interceptions than touchdowns
for the
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10•9•2000 |
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Two games after his cover appearance the Rams' Kurt Warner
breaks his pinkie and, for the first time since he won the job, is sidelined,
missing his next five
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12•4•2000 |
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Minnesota quarterback Daunte Culpepper wants to be "The Greatest
Ever!" but he's not yet great enough to prevent the Vikings from losing its
next (and final) three regular season games.
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1•22•2001 |
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Amani Toomer and the Giants, featured after a rout of the
Vikings in the NFC title game, lose 31-7 to the Ravens in the Super Bowl.
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3•5•2001 |
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Days after Nomar Garciaparra of the Boston Red Sox appeared on SI's cover, it was announced that he had split a tendon in his right wrist.
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5•21•2001 |
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The Hornets, appearing with a 3-2 lead on the Bucks in the
second round of the playoffs, lose the next two games and the
series.
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8•13•2001 |
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Oregon State, SI's preseason college football No. 1, lost 44-24 to Fresno State in its opener and
finished
5-6.
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10•1•2001 |
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In his next game Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler has two
fumbles and two interceptions in a 42-10 loss to the
Rams.
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11•26•2001 |
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The run of Nebraska QB Eric Crouch for the Heisman trophy hit a speed bump the day after Thanksgiving, when Colorado obliterated the Cornhuskers 62-36.
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12•03•2001 |
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The cover billing SKINS GAME: HOW TO GO
0-5, THEN 5-0 all but assured the Washington
Redskins would lose to the Dallas Cowboys that week and then fail to make the
playoffs.
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1•14•2002 |
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As SI goes to press, news reports come out that cover boy
Michael Jordan's wife has filed for
divorce.
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Photographs by: Walter Iooss Jr., Peter Read Miller, Damian Strohmeyer, Heinz Kluetmeier, Damian Strohmeyer, Walter Iooss Jr., Lynn Johnson, Rich Frishman, Eliot Schechter/Allsport, Jeffery A. Salter/SABA, , Al Tielemans, Nathaniel S. Butler/NBA Entertainment
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