Leading Off

Departments

14 Letters
16 Catching Up With...
102 The Life of Reilly

19 Scorecard

Tyson's travails
Wilkens in the Hall—again
Bloomin' Boomer
Overtime overview
Coaches take the blame
Lawn bowling's bad boy
The Jordan watch
Faces in the Crowd
SI View

Inside...

74 Motor Sports
78 Boxing
82 College Football
88 Horse Racing
92 The NFL
100 Baseball

Pro Football
30 Tough Mudders
The Dolphins got down and dirty, and beat the Steelers with the kind of defensive playmakers that coach Jimmy Johnson always seems to be able to unearth
by Austin Murphy

College Football
36 Starlit Night
In Year 1 of the post-Peyton era, Tennessee claims to have no standouts, but the Volunteers produced a celestial effort in upending Florida for the first time since 1992
by Tim Layden

Baseball
44 Sammy: You're The Man
Sammy Sosa showed that he's indeed The Man—even when he and the Cubs are struggling
by Michael Bamberger

Pro Football
52 Sorry, Charlie
A lifetime of adversity helped prepare coolheaded but little-known rookie Charlie Batch for a true test of character: quarterbacking the hapless Lions
by David Fleming