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TABLE OF CONTENTS
October 04, 2004 | Volume 101, Issue 13
OCTOBER 26, 1981
October 04, 2004 Hex Vexed
October 04, 2004 LETTERS
If your favorite sport will Not Halt its Lockout and your hero's New Home is Lapland and you're Now Hating Life 'cause there's No Hockey Left and you'll Never Have Labatt's again, you might be a...
He's taken flak for not being flashy or rattling the rafters with the ball. But Ichiro Suzuki is a baseball miniaturist fashioning a season like no man has had before
A new test for an old form of cheating catches an Olympic gold medalist
10 Minutes per day, on average, that fantasy football players spend tracking their teams at work, according to the consulting firm Challenger Gray & Christmas.
The Expos' final homestand in Canada filled les habitants with little but ennui
Resumed The career of former heavyweight champ Riddick Bowe, 37, who KO'd tomato can Marcus Rhode in the second round last Saturday in his first fight since 1996 (above). "I feel like a kid in a...
The U.S. men can salvage a Slam-less season by winning the Davis Cup
October 04, 2004 | Bill Scheft Finally saw Wimbledon. Unfortunately, I couldn't hear anything because Richard Williams was sitting behind me, whining about the line calls.
The Grammy-winning musician plays the alcoholic father of a high school football player in Friday Night Lights
The new Bachelor, Byron Velvick, is no stranger to doing some baiting and luring while the world watches. Velvick, 40, has been a pro BASS fisherman for 13 years. "It's truly bizarre," said...
An entrepreneur is seeking investors for the ThoroughBreast Racing League, which would allow pari-mutuel betting on races with topless women in Las Vegas.
A.J. BURNETT
What to watch and watch for
Clubhouse, CBS's new coming-of-age show (Tuesdays at 9 p.m.), would like very much to be The Wonder Years. Alas, The Wonder Years was set in a middle-class home in a kinder, gentler era, which...
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Should Roger Federer, SI's men's tennis player of the year (page 78), be considered for SI's Sportsman of the Year?
MONDAY
October 04, 2004 BASEBALL
Chop Till You Drop
October 04, 2004 Liane Dixon
Panthers Quarterback
[WHO'S Hot]
Based on a survey of 354 players
NFL players know the importance of sleep--they just differ on how to get it. All the snooze that's fit to print
October 04, 2004 CHIEFS vs. RAVENS
...WITH DANNY WUERFFEL
with Duane Clemons Bengals Defensive End
October 04, 2004 [This article consists of photographs--see below]
October 04, 2004 Hurricanes, injuries and Ricky's retirement--it's hardly the Perfect Season, but the sun's gonna shine again
October 04, 2004 What the Jets like to do in Miami
October 04, 2004 [This article consists of a photograph - see below.]
The Cardinals have baseball's best record and most powerful lineup, but are they adequately armed for October?
The Cardinals aren't the only playoff team with pressing issues as baseball goes through a change of seasons
October 04, 2004 | H.G. BISSINGER A new movie based on his controversial 1990 best seller about high school football in West Texas took the author on a long-dreaded journey to revisit his main characters
With a blue-collar defense built around Pro Bowl lineman Marcus Stroud, the surprising Jaguars stuffed the rival Titans and stayed atop the AFC South
In a year when the conference's traditional powers look vulnerable, Kyle Orton and explosive Purdue are leading a realignment of the pecking order
The one-two rushing punch of Marion Barber and Laurence Maroney has Minnesota dreaming of Roses
October 04, 2004 | MICHAEL MACCAMBRIDGE During a period of personal turmoil in 1963, Pete Rozelle made a series of monumental moves that positioned the NFL to conquer the sports world. An excerpt from a new book
October 04, 2004 INSIDE COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Inspired by his deaf parents and brother, quarterback Stefan LeFors is lifting Louisville to new heights
1. Quarterback Chris Leak gets more attention, but Florida's best weapon is junior running back Ciatrick Fason, who ran for 210 yards against Kentucky and is averaging 6.8 yards per carry since...
MEMO TO COACH: BENCH BERLIN
FIFTEEN STRAIGHT WINS
For his dominance of the men's field and for the virtuosity of his game, Roger Federer is SI's player of the year
Federer wasn't the only player to win three majors in 2004. Spain's Virginia Ruano Pascual (near right) and Argentina's Paola Suárez took the Australian, French and U.S. Open doubles titles....
No-nonsense coach Dennis Green says he will succeed in Arizona if the Cardinals buy into his system
EAGLES' JEVON KEARSE
HOT TOPIC
DOLPHINS' RUN GAME
Here's one reason for the Rams' 1--2 start: Last season St. Louis led the league in takeaways, with 46; this year the Rams have none. Against the Saints on Sunday, a fourth-quarter pass in the end...
It'll be Rocky Marciano against Muhammad Ali this weekend, a bear against a swarm of bees. Jacksonville-Indianapolis, of course, slugger against boxer, denim against velvet. (And I have now used...
Despite a badly banged-up rotation, L.A. won a critical showdown with the Giants to maintain its NL West lead
PINIELLA N.Y.-BOUND?
WILD AL WEST
Did you know that 49.2% of all statistics are misleading? It's true. Take, for instance, Seattle Mariners leadoff hitter Ichiro Suzuki and his quest to break the 84year-old record of 257 hits in...
October 04, 2004 NEW BIG 10 POWERS
In the first week of the lockout, NHL players were taking games wherever they could find them
How five prominent NHL players are spending the lockout.
The ill will between two post-Athens tours signals a rift between USA Gymnastics and some of its biggest stars
For some gymnastics medalists, the post-Olympic payday is not what it's been in the past
October 04, 2004 | Charles Hirshberg Hal Chase was the best first baseman of his age, but maybe the worst person ever to play big league ball
A hockey goaltender's secret life as a bandit turned him into a folk hero in postcommunist Hungary
Once seemingly unbeatable, Roy Jones lost a second consecutive bout, casting an ominous cloud over his future
In his first fight in more than seven years Riddick Bowe stopped Marcus Rhode in the second round last Saturday. Here's a look at how five other heavyweights fared in comebacks after long layoffs
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