Leading Off

Departments

12 Letters
14 To Our Readers
100 The Life of Reilly

17 Scorecard

Another boxing loss
College coaches take a hike
Cubs' new Caray
Rookie for the ages
Ballpark goodies
Faces in the Crowd
SI View

Inside...

84 The NBA
90 Baseball
94 The NHL
98 Soccer

Pro Football
30 The Chairmen
Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf are the class of the NFL draft, but experts say one of them stands head and shoulder pads above the other
by Peter King

Hockey
36 Bittersweet
Marty Turco was thrilled when he and the Wolverines won the NCAA title, save for one thing: It was his last game for Michigan
by Kostya Kennedy

Pro Basketball
38 He's Got Game
Michael Finley, who began playing against Michael Jordan while still a schoolkid, can do it all—except lift the Mavs out of the doldrums
by Marty Burns

Baseball
46 A Spring Classic
Why wait five months for a meaningful series when the Blue Jays and the Rangers were offering up the next-best thing on opening weekend
by Tom Verducci