December 03, 2007 | Volume 107, Issue 22

Pats Imperfect

In praise of standing on the necks of Giants—and Bills, and Dolphins and...

WHO'S Hot

Which NFL receiver is the easiest to intimidate?

Died At age 28, major league pitcher Joe Kennedy (below). The cause of death has not been determined, but Kennedy's agent, Damon Lapa, said that the player's family had been told by doctors that...

TED NOLAN Islanders coach, after a 2--1 win last Saturday: "My philosophy has always been if we score one more than them, we have a good chance of winning."

3 Interceptions Giants QB Eli Manning had returned for scores against the Vikings.

AT TIMES during his four-year career it has seemed that the football has been the easiest aspect of life in the NFL for Sean Taylor to manage. Taylor, 24, one of the hardest-hitting safeties in...

Major League Baseball is auctioning off a bottle of bug spray from Game 2 of the ALDS.

The NFL's most lethal return man had two more TDs on Sunday

Lo, it cometh: SI's first annual Advent calendar

Is Dennis Miller's new sports show as heady as its host?

IT MAY BE a shortage of better ideas, rather than popular demand, that is driving the comeback of NBC's The Apprentice in a turbocharged celebrity form. But the show now has a decidedly sportsy...

EVEN FOOTBALL refs have their heroes, to whom they pay homage. During a Jets-Bills game in 1986 Ben Dreith won a permanent spot on NFL highlight reels when he flagged New York's Marty Lyons for a...

Michael Imperioli plays a catcher on TV

MIAMI HEAT, CENTER

What to watch and watch for

Kyle Patterson BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND > Soccer Patterson, a junior midfielder at Saint Louis, scored three goals in a span of two minutes, 31 seconds, during the Billikens' 8--0 win over Saint...

Covering the Field

The NBA's fourth-leading scorer is Kings guard Kevin Martin. (Yes, you read that right.) Though he plays in the Pacific time zone for a bad team, you'll be hearing plenty about him, because he's...

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NBA Roundtable

Not even ranked until after its third game, Missouri and its Heisman hopeful need a win over Oklahoma to earn a berth, potentially with West Virginia, in the BCS championship game

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Hawaii offers up the nation's top-scoring offense, a Heisman candidate and a conference title—not to mention the only perfect record in the country—but it's still battling to get respect in the polls

Trophy Chase

Inside Story

Sidewinder

The NFL The Chargers thump Baltimore and may have finally put last season behind them. Peter King: David Garrard's mistake-free play carries the Jaguars

Play on Words After their star gave them a talking-to, the frustrated Chargers moved forward with a dominating—and timely—win

Vikings safety Darren Sharper (right) deserves more love than he gets. The 11-year veteran had his 52nd career interception and eighth touchdown return on Sunday against the Giants. Among pure...

If there was ever a match made in football heaven, it's turnover-obsessed Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio and quarterback David Garrard, who doesn't give the ball away. Garrard enters December as the...

When Jim Kelly and his old run-and-shoot Houston Gamblers were snapping off 40 and 50 passes per game, a schoolboy quarterback from Kiln, Miss., named Brett Favre must have noted the action and...

SI's Top 10

Capital Change

The Rangers have overcome a slow start not so much because of veteran stars but because of the mature play of three youngsters, forward Brandon Dubinsky and defensemen Fedor Tyutin and Marc Staal....

Initial Reactions The season is still young, but the tournaments have already revealed several surprises and disappointments

1 Louisville is in trouble. Senior center David Padgett (right) is out until at least late January with a fractured kneecap, and senior forward Juan Palacios is healing more slowly than expected...

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CHILL FACTOR

Punt returners reveal how they get their kicks

After quitting the WNBA, Chamique Holdsclaw turns up in Poland

AT FIRST GLANCE Tom Johnson was an odd choice to be the Boston Bruins' coach when he was hired in the spring of 1970. The Bruins of the early '70s were a rambunctious bunch, led by long-haired...

A nation's beloved football team hits rock bottom

BRITISH OPERA SINGER Tony Henry needs to brush up on his Croatian. While singing that country's national anthem before the game against England last week, Henry was supposed to sing, "Mila kuda si...

THEY HOWL, they scratch themselves, they get excited and forget they're housebroken. But even your relatives can't spoil the fun of watching The National Dog Show hosted by the Kennel Club of...