Dec.
27, 1999-Jan. 3, 2000
Illustration by Daniel Pelavin
Previous Issues
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20TH CENTURY |
Greatest Sports Figures
To end the millennium, here are our choices of the top 50 from each state and Canada.
Alphabetical List
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL |
Sugar Plums
Florida State figures to win its second national title of the decade, but Virginia Tech won't go without a fight
By Ivan Maisel
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OUR FAVORITE FEATS |
The SI Top 20
They astonished us by going where no athlete had gone before them, surmounting hurdles literal and metaphorical
By Richard Hoffer
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BASEBALL |
At Full Blast
Shooting outrageously from the lip, Braves closer John Rocker bangs away at his favorite targets: the Mets, their city and just about everybody in it
By Jeff Pearlman
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PRO FOOTBALL
First-Degree Tragedy
Rae Carruth was a gifted Panthers receiver. Now he is accused of ordering his pregnant girlfriend's murder
By Michael Bamberger
Chief Weapon
Kansas City's Tony Gonzalez used his basketball skills to develop into one of the NFL's premier tight ends
By Leigh Montville
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OUR FAVORITE FEATS
Bannister and Hillary
Pioneer four-minute miler Roger Bannister and Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary became, at mid-century, the last great heroes in an era of sea change in sport
By Frank Deford
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