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TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 12, 2007 | Volume 106, Issue 6
February 12, 2007 Pour Excuse A steady rain during Super Bowl XLI on Sunday lent a water-color effect to Dolphin Stadium in Miami—and made conditions particularly tough for Bears quarterback Rex Grossman (LIFE OF...
February 12, 2007 Saints and the
City
In this era it is hard to find players interested in bettering the team instead
of themselves (Marching In, Jan. 22). Drew Brees chose New Orleans because of
the chance to help...
THE MOST exciting
player in basketball is a 6'10" high school junior named Kevin Laue, which
rhymes with wow, as in, "Wow, I can't believe he just did that." What
he does is a little of...
As more players become afflicted, the NFL is finding concussions a tough problem to tackle
It may not be by popular demand exactly, but Sammy Sosa is back in baseball, as a Ranger
He's three inches taller than Yao Ming,
but is pro hoops' biggest player ready for the NBA?
Died
Of complications from pneumonia, former All-Star pitcher Steve Barber, 68. In
1963 Barber (above) became the first 20-game winner in Orioles history when he
went 20--13 with a 2.75 ERA....
.762 Field goal percentage (32 for 42) of Vanderbilt
in a 91--51 win over Alabama on Sunday, an NCAA women's record.
After a hiatus to have a baby and
celebrate her 40th birthday, Gail Devers returns in style
After a few close calls, Iona's 23-game losing skid is finally history
The 41-year-old actor stars as coach Eric Turner on NBC's Friday Night Lights
WISE BEYOND his years, LeBron James knows that with all his success he needs to be brought back down to earth every once in a while. So last week James had himself roasted. More than 250 guests...
A pregnant Chicago woman agreed to advertise an online auction company on her belly during the Super Bowl in exchange for two free tickets.
Now the world knows Victoria's secret: She's a huge soccer fan. A pack of models showed off their soccer ball lingerie at halftime of the Bundesliga match between Borussia Dortmund and VfB...
REX GROSSMAN, Bears quarterback, to reporters at Super Bowl media day: "I'm realizing how ignorant you guys are. But I don't mean that in a bad way."
What to watch and watch for
February 12, 2007 Herb Magee
SCORECARD, DEC. 25, 2006
February 12, 2007 Kassi Price PLANTATION, FLA. > Gymnastics Price, a freshman at Alabama, won her third straight all-around competition, leading the No. 4--ranked Crimson Tide to a national-best 197.475 score...
TENNESSEE FORWARD
February 12, 2007 WHO'S Hot
February 12, 2007 Who is the NBA's most physical player?
Chris Simms reflects on his scary injury
February 12, 2007 [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.]
February 12, 2007
Flyers LW
February 12, 2007 Emmitt Smith's Super Sundays headline his peerless career
Ashley Nixon keeps up the tradition at 'Goalie High'
THE MTV hit reality series Two-A-Days has returned for a second season looking more like an MTV show—in other words, it has turned down the sports a bit while turning up the young love. When we...
After surviving a serious car wreck, a coach and player are taking their team to the top
Jersey girl repeats her feat at Madison Square Garden
February 12, 2007 PUT UP YOUR DUKES
February 12, 2007 Get complete Signing Day coverage, including news, team rankings from Rivals.com and analysis at SI.com/highschool.
Trusting in each other and in the guiding hand of their history-making coach, Peyton Manning and the Colts came together in the South Florida rain to vanquish the Bears and lay claim to greatness
There was one more person with whom Tony Dungy wanted to share his landmark victory
The Colts' methodical offense and speedy defense kept the ball out of the Bears' hands
February 12, 2007 | KARL TARO GREENFELD
A smash hit in October in his postseason debut, Mets first baseman Carlos
Delgado is a man whose deep-rooted convictions, like his power stroke, were
forged when he was a boy in Puerto Rico
Stanley Cup
favorite Anaheim is by far the NHL's most pugnacious team, led by George
Parros, its Princeton-educated goon
For the NBA's most confounding franchise, the spotlight is on the tempestuous, blues-strumming owner--cable-television tycoon Jim Dolan--and a much maligned coach who will either build a winner or...
February 12, 2007 College Basketball Transfers helped Reggie Theus quickly turn things around at New Mexico State • N.C. State is back in the NCAA tournament hunt
1 After a dreadful 1--5 start in ACC play, N.C. State is solidly back in the NCAA tournament hunt. The NCAA selection committee takes injuries into account in its deliberations and will note that...
Desert Boom Reggie Theus has quickly turned around the program at New Mexico State by luring a pack of talented transfers to Las Cruces
Magnifico! By playing with brio, Andrea Bargnani has justified the Raptors' decision to make him last June's top overall pick
On the Nuggets, who through Sunday had gone 3--5 since Carmelo Anthony's return from a 15-game suspension:
YOU LOOKED at
paperboy-size Bears quarterback Rex Grossman warming up before Super Bowl XLI
in his too-big shoulder pads and his altar-boy face and you thought, Hey, some
kid won a contest to get...
Tiger adds to his "other" streak
104
A Missouri gem that's as good for your karma as it is
for your game
WHO: Aaron
Baddeley
A Pebble Beach
scene brought my golf journey full circle
by JAMES P. HERRE
MacKinzie Kline, 14, will be the first to use a cart
in an LPGA event
The FBR Open boiled down to a progress report on the careers of two young pros, and only one, Aaron Baddeley, truly made the grade
February 12, 2007 | Scott Gummer Every winter,
record Tour crowds flock to the TPC Scottsdale during the FBR Open, many of
them perching at the Bird's Nest party pavilion or in the stands surrounding
the raucous 16th hole. Last...
February 12, 2007 THERE'S A FRESH
TAKE ON GOLF EVERY DAY AT SI.COM/GOLF.
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