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Departments

16 Letters
20 Catching Up With...
124 The Life of Reilly

Scorecard

25 Bravo for baseball brawls
Red Wings should soar
Mindless celebrations
A greyhound goes and goes
Remembering Shirley Povich
NCAA punishment by press release
Faces in the Crowd
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Inside...

70 The NFL
75 The NBA
78 Baseball

Cover
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN W. McDONOUGH

Baseball
38 Feasting on Rib-eyes
Juan Gonzalez and Mark McGwire are trying to stick a fork in Hack Wilson's record of 190 RBIs
by Tom Verducci

Hockey
46 Is Anyone Watching?
Though its hard-core fans keep turning out, the NHL has been hit by poor TV ratings and negative perceptions
by Michael Farber

NBA Playoffs
56 The Tangled Web
By ensnaring the Jazz in a masterfully spun defense, the Bulls stunningly altered the course of the Finals
by Phil Taylor