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TABLE OF CONTENTS
October 09, 2006 | Volume 105, Issue 14
October 09, 2006 Worth the Wait
KICKING is the
essence of life. From our first fetal act ("The baby's kicking!") to
our final earthly verb ("He kicked the bucket"), it is so synonymous
with vitality that we are said, between the...
Why do fans see the NFL as the No Fault League but come down hard on other sports? SI's senior NBA writer has a theory
Even in retirement, golf's most noble figure was never far from the game
October 09, 2006 Sidelined
Until at least next June, Mets ace Pedro Martinez, who was scheduled to undergo
surgery on his right rotator cuff this week. On Sept. 27, Martinez, 34, was
shelled for seven runs in 2...
As several high-profile managers are let go, new faces emerge as potential replacements
October 09, 2006 No sport lends
itself to historical conjecture like baseball. The what-ifs and
might-have-beens are almost as much a part of our collective consciousness of
the sport as the actual games. Among...
October 09, 2006 Janet McDougall began working at this magazine on July
31, 1963, when, she says, "most of the typewriters were still manual."
She started as an ad production assistant, then in '70 moved to the...
California makes college felons serve their time before getting playing time
The actress (We Are Marshall) is the great-granddaughter of New York Giants founder Tim Mara and Steelers founder Art Rooney
One website said
that Uwe Boll's 2006 vampire thriller, BloodRayne, contained "ineptly
staged action scenes, shoddy special effects, muddled storytelling, laughable
dialogue and borderline...
What to watch and watch for
October 09, 2006
Ben
Malcolmson
Air and Space, May 1
October 09, 2006 Lauren
DeGirolamo
YANKEES STARTER
October 09, 2006 WHO'S Hot
October 09, 2006 Which rookie will have the biggest impact this
year?
October 09, 2006 For some people a pitching change is a laughing matter
October 09, 2006
Pirates Infielder
October 09, 2006 [This article
contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.]
From race to race, Brian Vickers can rely on all the comforts of home
October 09, 2006 The NBC drama series Friday Night Lights, debuting on Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT, follows a fictional high school football team in Texas. How realistic is the show? SI asked players, a coach and a...
Mentored by some of the game's greatest coaches, Jeff Rutledge is now returning the favor at a Nashville high school
This soccer star is happy to be alive and kicking
Who would you rather have? Mays or Clemente? Spahn or the Big Unit? Bench or Piazza? SI polled a 22-man panel of experts to fill its dream roster. The result is a work of art
Have a different roster in mind? Fill out a ballot for
your alltime All-Star team at SI.com/baseball.
Neither player
led his respective league in a Triple Crown category, but SI's MVP choices
displayed their singular value in other ways
Dallas owner Jerry
Jones expected a circus when he signed Terrell Owens--and he couldn't be
happier that his Boys are once again center ring in the NFL
Read Michael Silver's Rollin' With ... on Wednesdays
and Bring on the Weekend on Thursdays, at SI.com/nfl.
Never mind whom
they've beaten. Long-suffering Rutgers, Missouri and Wake Forest are
undefeated, undaunted and unquestionably on the rise
With his Shaqlike dimensions and fearsome features, Nikolay Valuev--history's tallest heavyweight champ--intimidates foes and titillates fans, but can Don King's colossus fight?
October 09, 2006 British
Airways
Liverpool striker Peter Crouch is known more for his height (6'7") than for
his acrobatic play, but against the Turkish team Galatasaray in a UEFA
Champions League match he took...
A legend in the sports netherworld,
chemist Patrick Arnold--inventor of THG--breaks his silence on his role in the
BALCO scandal and hints of a future filled with scary science
More from George Dohrmann on Patrick Arnold and the
future of performance enhancement, at SI.com/more.
October 09, 2006 College Football Northern Illinois back running away with rushing title • QB John Beck, BYU get breakthrough win • Changing of the guard in the ACC?
A Cut Above
HOT TOPIC
Just in Time
HOT READ
I NEVER like to watch football with people around me because of the distraction, but I needed something to break the pattern of my miserable handicapping season. So I called a few Chargers fans I...
THEY SAY your life is not complete until you run with the bulls, dive the Cave of the Sleeping Sharks and climb El Capitan without a rope. But there is one death-defying feat that makes those look...
October 09, 2006 DON'T LIKE THE MATCHUP
October 09, 2006 ADAM DUERSON
MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
October 09, 2006 | GENE MENEZ
How you handle
overachieving players--as well as those who underperform--will decide your
fantasy fate
October 09, 2006 Week Like the Matchup
Poised to pass Jerry Rice in the record books, wideout David Ball is taking New Hampshire to new heights
Heath Shuler fizzled as a top Redskins draft pick. Now he wants to return to D.C. as a congressman
A new documentary captures the grit, danger and passion in one of America's fastest-growing sports
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