Leading Off

Stone Cold
Quebec's Fran�ois Roberg� slides the rock through the rings as his sweepers prepare to escort his stone down the ice during a curling match against British Columbia.

Final Floor
Tennessee forward Tamika Catchings has a painful reunion with her coach, Pat Summitt, as the Lady Vols fall to Connecticut in the NCAA title game (page 56).

That Ball Had Eyes
Teams of horsemen tussle over a gutted and decapitated goat in buzkashi, the Afghan national sport that dates to the time of Genghis Khan. There have been minor changes in the game over the years: Genghis's guys used a prisoner instead of a goat.