Leading Off

Departments

10 Letters
20 Catching Up With...
120 The Life of Reilly

Scorecard

23 Tyson's Latest Farce
A Ref Who Coaches
The WNBA Wimps Out Against the ABL
Yale Goes to Market
A Dunkley Named Slam
Faces in the Crowd
SI View

Inside...

88 The NHL
90 Motor Sports
94 The NBA
98 College Basketball
102 College Football
104 The NFL

Pro Basketball
36 Hang in There
An All-Star MVP performance removes any doubt that Michael Jordan has too much left to retire
by Phil Taylor

Winter Olympics

44 Best Foot Forward
As the Nagano Games opened with a spectacle featuring sumo king Akebono and choirs on five continents, what dazzled visitors most was that gentlest of Japanese virtues: politeness
by Steve Rushin

Blind Justice
Figure skating judges are booed and viewed as mean-spirited and incompetent. And it didn't take long for controversy to break out in Nagano
by E.M. Swift