Leading Off

Departments

12 Catching Up With...
17 Letters
108 The Life of Reilly

Scorecard

19 Jordan had it easy
Jones gets off easy
Hooligans
Cards deal with a racial predicament
The new commish
The NFL in the NHL
Faces in the Crowd
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Inside...

82 Soccer
84 Baseball
94 The NFL

Golf
30 Payne Killer
Lee Janzen once again snatched the U.S. Open title from a hurting Payne Stewart
by John Garrity

World Cup '98
34 Go-o-o Home
With a toothless attack, the U.S. got kicked out of the competition early by Iran
by Ian Thomsen

Baseball

36 An Education
Having learned that his goals and the Cubs' can be reached with a single stroke, Sammy Sosa produced the greatest home run streak the game has ever seen
by Tom Verducci