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Departments

12 Catching Up With...
16 Letters
114 The Life of Reilly

19 Scorecard

Rider Boo Hoo
Leyland Revisionism
The Cowboys' New Coach
Racial Incident in an Indiana High School
Faces in the Crowd
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Inside...

96 Motor Sports
100 The NHL
106 The NBA
110 College Basketball

Winter Olympics

32 Hidden Forces
In Nagano, obscure athletes driven by invisible powers created the most glorious moments
by Steve Rushin

40 Street Fighting
Picabo Street and Hermann Maier overcame adversity to win skiing gold, but did unrest in Street's camp thwart her quest for another medal?
by Tim Layden

46 Spin City
Intimations of greatness from Ilia Kulik lent excitement to the men's figure skating competition
by E.M. Swift