Leading Off

Departments

12 Letters
14 Catching Up With...
100 The Life of Reilly

Scorecard

23 The Jordan Standard
NCAA wrestling grapples on
Bowl compromise
Fresno fiasco
Faces in the Crowd
SI View

Inside...

86 Motor Sports
90 The NBA
96 The NHL
98 Baseball

College Basketball
34 Let's Get Physical
Bruising Kentucky, North Carolina, Stanford and Utah muscled into the Final Four
by Alexander Wolff

Baseball
42 What Price Freedom?
The latest Cuban players to defect risked death at sea and abandoned their families to anguish
by S.L. Price

Hockey
46 Team Turmoil
Huge debts and a rotten record have put the Lightning, probably the worst-run franchise in sports, on the brink of ruin
by Johnette Howard and Lester Munson

Tennis
56 Anna-tude
At 16, that's what Russian phenom Anna Kournikova has—in addition to talent, sex appeal and a "good friend" with a Stanley Cup ring
by Michael Silver