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TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 11, 2007 | Volume 106, Issue 24
June 11, 2007 Living History
AFTER PLAYING high
school basketball for six years (he started in seventh grade) at three schools
in three states, O.J. Mayo graduated from his hometown Huntington (W.Va.) High
last Saturday. Next...
June 11, 2007 WHO'S Hot
June 11, 2007 Which player gets the most out of the least talent?
June 11, 2007 Vanderbilt has found greater sports success since losing its athletic department
June 11, 2007 WHEN METS third baseman David Wright agreed to appear
in ads for Vitamin Water last year, he didn't take cash. Instead, he took a
0.5% stake in the company. Good move. Coca-Cola recently agreed to...
June 11, 2007 BENGALS WIDE receiver Chad Johnson will race against a
horse for charity at Cincinnati's River Downs on Saturday. (Cris Collinsworth
tried it twice, in 1983 and '93, and went 0--2.) The horse will...
A Change of
Heart
PHILLIP WELLMAN
Manager of the Double A Mississippi Braves, on his much-replayed meltdown in
which he uprooted bases, crawled on the ground and lobbed a rosin bag as if it
were a hand...
6 Victories for Indians righthander Paul Byrd.
A bill is being introduced in the Spanish parliament to
add words to the country's centuries-old national anthem so athletes will have
something to sing along to.
June 11, 2007 Fierce and acerbic, NASCAR's second-generation pioneer changed the landscape of sports
An OSU slugger—and his inspiring sister—discover their magic number
June 11, 2007 A Yankees star spends a week in the grip of New York's ungentle journalism
June 11, 2007 IRON MIKE'S something of a homebody these days, though
not by choice. Since his arrest last December on DUI and drug charges outside
Phoenix, Tyson needs an O.K. from prosecutors and the court to...
Every Cup winner gets 24 hours with the coveted chalice—a pleasure to which only two players in this year's final can attest
June 11, 2007 DUCKS COACH
A book and blog look at baseball cheaters
ELISABETH SHUE (Leaving Las Vegas) was so serious
about soccer as a teenager in the 1970s, she played in a boys' league since
there was no girls' league in her part of New Jersey. A fictionalized...
The Olympic gold medalist—and SI Swimsuit model—is on the cover of the July issue of Playboy
What to watch and watch for
June 11, 2007 Kristen Rafael GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS > Tennis Kristen, a senior at Nolan Catholic High, won her third Texas private schools singles title, losing only two sets (to Ursuline's Peta Maree Lancaster...
In often regal
fashion--and with one game for the ages--LeBron James carried the Cavaliers
past Detroit to their first NBA Finals. And let there be no doubt: A new era
has begun
A hard-charging band of throwbacks pushed and shoved its way past the Senators and to the brink of the franchise's first Stanley Cup
June 11, 2007 | MARK BEECH The son of former illegal immigrants, 20-year-old Henry Cejudo has overcome hardship to become the youngest U.S. wrestling champion in decades. Now he wants to be the best on the planet
Jake Peavy is a
small-town 'Bama boy who can't see a lick and is prone to bad luck. But that
hasn't stopped the San Diego righthander from becoming a dominant ace--and a
favorite of some of the...
Tom Verducci profiles the next Next Big Thing in the
National League West, flamethrowing Giants' rookie righthander Tim Lincecum
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June 11, 2007 Baseball
The Tigers' gamble on rightfielder Magglio Ordoñez is paying off big time •
Scout: Roger Clemens won't be much more than a No. 3 starter
The Big
Payoff
If they don't turn their season around, the Rangers
will shop first baseman Mark Teixeira (right). Texas, 20--37 and 15 1/2 games
behind the AL West--leading Angels at week's end, will want a lot...
French Twist
On March 24, 1999, 11-year-old Ana Ivanovic was on a
Belgrade tennis court when she heard that NATO planes were on their way to bomb
the Serbian capital to stop the Serbs' killing of ethnic...
To the Front
1 Though reports over the weekend suggested Dale Earnhardt Jr. was close to an agreement with Joe Gibbs Racing on a long-term contract, don't believe it. A source with knowledge of the situation...
HONESTLY, YOU
must have bought, accepted or scalped 500 pro sports tickets in your life,
right? And in using those tickets, you legally agreed to the fine print on the
back, right? And every time,...
June 11, 2007 No Pushova
Second-seeded Maria Sharapova of Russia powered past Jill Craybas of the U.S.,
6--2, 6--1, in their second-round match last Thursday at the French Open (page
74). Sharapova also won her...
June 11, 2007 After winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee last Thursday, Evan-O'Dorney (above, 11) didn't break into an oberek (the word for a joyous Polish folk dance, which derailed a rival in the...
June 11, 2007 | Mitch Getz Sizing up the sports connections of America's most ubiquitous bad girls
June 11, 2007 | Mitch Getz THE SPORTS world doesn't have a Bill of Rights to
guarantee the right to bear tote bags and protect against cruel and unusual
punishment at the hands of mascots. But you wouldn't know that by...
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