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TABLE OF CONTENTS
March 19, 2007 | Volume 106, Issue 12
After being
head-butted in the World Cup final, once-infamous Marco Materazzi is the toast
of Italy. Now, if only he could make peace with a certain Frenchman
Six years ago
TONY PARKER came to the U.S. in search of NBA glory. He never expected that
he'd become an All-Star in San Antonio so quickly--or that he'd get on one knee
for a TV starlet from...
March 19, 2007 The NBA Rashard Lewis will be the summer's hottest free agent • No other stars expected to be available
Prime Target
Chauncey Billups, Vince Carter and Rashard Lewis are the only free agents likely to receive max offers come July. What's left is a deep pool of solid players, highlighted by the following:
Mr. Clean
Lost in the aftermath of the brutal two-handed stick hit that Islanders winger Chris Simon put on the face of Rangers forward Ryan Hollweg last Thursday—an offense for which Simon drew a 25-game...
Runners Up
After setting an NFL record with 416 carries last season, Chiefs running back Larry Johnson didn't take much of a break. Instead, he hired a personal trainer with a reputation for keeping...
Let It Ride
Last season, like most drivers and crew chiefs paired together for the first time, Jeff Gordon and Steve Letarte struggled to develop a chemistry. But now that they are starting to think alike,...
AT SOME TIME or another, every one of us needs advice, someone to turn to in times of strife and confusion. And I think we can all agree that this person should be Ron Artest.
March 19, 2007 Second City My prayers go out to the Cubbies and their loyal fans [Is This the Year? (No, but...), Feb. 26]. As a lifelong member of Red Sox Nation, I too know the pains of late-season flops. I...
THE MADNESS of
March began early for North Carolina—and for its Player of the Year candidate
Tyler Hansbrough. Before the Tar Heels (28--6) rolled through the ACC
tournament to lock up the top...
March 19, 2007 WHO'S Hot
March 19, 2007 Who is the most overrated player in the NHL?
Life isn't always fair in the NHL, but hockey got two crackdowns right
PISTONS GUARD Lindsey Hunter said the banned
amphetamine in his system came from a diet pill prescribed for his wife.
"We do that in our house," Hunter said. "If I've got a head cold, I
might grab...
LOOKS LIKE someone's seen Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind too many times. Stanford swim coach Skip Kenney erased the
records of five former athletes he didn't get along with from the team's...
Roger Did
What?
Lastings Milledge, Mets 21 year-old outfielder, on his
decision to shave off his cornrows:
350 million The number of China's 1.3 billion residents
who smoke; nonetheless, the Beijing Organizing Committee is considering making
the 2008 Olympics smoke-free.
In formal complaints to the FCC, a man said Prince's
Super Bowl halftime performance left him with erectile dysfunction, while a
woman complained it might turn her son gay.
March 19, 2007 AS FAR AS the
legal system is concerned, there is no NFL off-season. The latest: Last
Saturday, Cardinals assistant coach Richie Anderson (left) was arrested for
allegedly soliciting a prostitute...
A Staten Island rite of spring—partaking in a million-dollar NCAA pool—comes to an end
March 19, 2007 Former pitcher Rick Ankiel, who was overcome with
severe control problems seven years ago, is trying to make the Cardinals as an
outfielder. How's he doing? SI's Ankielometer tells all.
An off-campus redoubt for Duke's women hoopsters
March 19, 2007 NETS FORWARD
Derrick Low's elaborate tattoo speaks of his Hawaiian heritage
The Carmelo Anthony story: Sleepless in Denver. The NBA's leading scorer and fiancée LaLa Vazquez (below), an MTV veejay, welcomed their first child, a son they named Kiyan, last Wednesday....
A media mogul acquires a leader of the resurgent card biz
The ex-NBA star will compete on ABC's Dancing with the Stars
What to watch and watch for
March 19, 2007 Kymira Woodberry BOSTON > Basketball Woodberry, a freshman forward at Molloy, was named the 2006--07 East Coast Conference rookie of the year. She averaged a double double—13.1 points and 10.7...
Why the nation's winningest lacrosse coach moved to a school four miles away
FOR PLAYERS
A UCLA recruit—and NBA video junkie—likes to dish it out
March 19, 2007 | Ross Halvorson THE TALE OF a remote school with 454 students winning a state hockey title might sound like a script for Hoosiers on Ice. But the record of Roseau—which has the smallest student body in...
March 19, 2007 GOING OUT ON TOP Maya Moore, the girls' high school player of the year (SI, Jan. 15) finished her season in high style. The 6-foot senior forward (right) and Connecticut recruit had 29 points and...
March 19, 2007 | GRANT WAHL Winning back-to-back titles in college hoops is one of the rarest feats in team sports. Is reigning champ Florida up to the challenge?
March 19, 2007 | GRANT WAHL The Blue Devils of 1991 and '92, the last repeat
champions, have instructive tales for the team that would match their feat
March 19, 2007 | GRANT WAHL From 1974 to the present, college basketball has had
fewer repeat champions (one) than any other major U.S. team sport. Yet from
1946 (when Oklahoma A&M won its second consecutive title) to...
Slowly but steadily, the NCAA tournament became the spectacle we know today
'45
DePaul's bespectacled George Mikan is the game's first iconic big man.
After a pair of
near misses in the first round, Winthrop may be this year's George Mason, the
anonymous mid-major that goes on a surprising run
March 19, 2007 Swing and a Mist Pregame fireworks left a cloud of smoke hanging over Surprise Stadium in Surprise, Ariz., where the Royals hosted the Angels in a spring training game last Friday.
With no weaknesses and not relying on any one player, the Duke women have steamrollered opponents, won the Cameron crowd's attention and vowed to avenge last year's loss in the final
Eager to return to the Final Four, the Huskies are staying loose and relying on a balanced offense to give them the last laugh
The ins and outs of March Madness. SETH DAVIS explains who has the edge--and why
SI's preseason pick to win it all justifies the hype by shutting down Hoyas linchpin Green and raining threes to clinch KU's third title
Only after John
Wooden challenged his own coaching methods--and applied new tactics to a
headstrong mix of players in 1963--64--did he make his mark at UCLA
No team is more
loaded with fascinating young talent--real or Rotisserie--than Tampa Bay.
That's not enough to predict great things for this season, but a few years down
the road, well ...
Tour pro involved
in a fatal accident
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with BRAD FAXON
One thing you'd change about the Tour?
WHO: Heath
Slocum
Things don't get
serious on Tour until players see The Ghost
by RICK LIPSEY
John Daly has struggled since losing the 2005 Amex
Championship playoff
Mark Calcavecchia
Makes the Most Of a Break--and a Friendship--to Win the PODS Championship
A collection of new books examines all aspects of baseball—with hits and whiffs
Crazy '08
by Cait Murphy Smithsonian Books, $24.95
THE SPORTS ENCYCLOPEDIA: BASEBALL 2007
Edited by David S. Neft, Richard M. Cohen and Michael L. Neft St. Martin's,
$23.95
March 19, 2007 MARCH 7 Katy Swim (above, left) and Caron Farnham got a great look at each other's moves in the Women's Pipeline Pro at the Banzai Pipeline in Haleiwa, Hawaii, last week. They finished the heat...
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