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TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 25, 2008 | Volume 108, Issue 8
February 25, 2008 Ty Down Penguins goaltender Ty Conklin went through gyrations—but kept the puck in plain sight—as he made a second-period save on Sunday in Buffalo. Conklin turned back 36 shots in Pittsburgh's...
February 25, 2008 Line Connoisseur Congratulations to Peter King for his Super Bowl preview (It's All on the Line, Feb. 4). The cover proclaimed that the answer to "Can the Giants Get to Brady?" would determine...
February 25, 2008 The annual SI Swimsuit Issue was published last week. If you are a new subscriber and decide that you do not want to continue receiving it, call our customer-service center toll-free at...
February 25, 2008 | Junior In voting for Best Picture or MVP, awards experts often make the same mistakes
February 25, 2008 WHO'S Hot
February 25, 2008 If you were starting a team, who'd be the first active
player you'd pick to play on it?
February 25, 2008 Won
The International Tennis Championships in Delray Beach, Fla., on Sunday, by Kei
Nishikori (above), the first Japanese man to win an ATP event in 16 years.
Nishikori, 18, came into the ITC as a...
February 25, 2008 PAULA CREAMER
LPGA star, on why she picked golf over cheerleading when a schedule conflict
forced her to choose at age 12:
"My dad asked me if I wanted to cheer for other people or have people...
February 25, 2008 This weekend the Marlins are holding tryouts for the
Manatees, a dance team of men with "big bellies with the biggest
jiggle."
Monica Seles peaked early but still went out on top
41 Points by which Kentucky lost to Vanderbilt last week, the Wildcats' worst loss ever in the SEC.
WHEN ASKED by Congress why he didn't remind Roger Clemens that he was speaking the truth during their infamous taped phone call, Brian McNamee said he did. According to McNamee, his response to...
ROCKIES LEFTFIELDER
A sharp new documentary recalls Joe Louis
AFTER HE saw Dale, the 2007 documentary about his late father, Dale Earnhardt Jr. raved, "I was amazed. Blown away." Now he wants to see more of his dad on screen. Junior and Earnhardt's widow,...
WILL LEITCH does not—repeat, does not—want to be a sportswriter, a job he breezily summarizes in God Save the Fan this way: "Ask bland questions, receive bland answers, return to bland press box,...
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February 25, 2008 | Sarah Kwak What to watch and watch for
February 25, 2008 Cesar Cielo SANTA BARBARA, BRAZIL > Swimming Cielo, a junior at Auburn, won the 50- and 100-meter freestyle and swam the anchor leg of the 200 freestyle relay as the No. 6 Tigers beat No. 5...
The Interview
Pat Knight
TEXAS TECH COACH
February 25, 2008 More sports issues on which Congress should hold hearings paid for by taxpayers
February 25, 2008 AT SPRING TRAINING Tommy Lasorda was overheard telling Joe Torre about his frustration at a lunch counter: "So I order a six-foot hero, and the guy says, 'What's that?' I say, 'It's like a regular...
ANALYSIS
Baseball Prospectus analyzes some of the big off-season moves and how they'll give a boost to the teams that made them
MORE BASEBALL
When the 50th Great American Race came down to a final-lap dash, Ryan Newman used a teammate's bump to roar by on the outside and give owner Roger Penske his first Daytona 500 win
MORE NASCAR
Why the Pac-10 is the top conference, and other Hoop Thoughts from Seth Davis.
February 25, 2008 | MICHAEL FARBER
MORE NHL
February 25, 2008 | CHRIS BALLARD
VIDEO
February 25, 2008 College Basketball Maya Moore has carried the UConn women to the top of the poll—and she's only a freshman • Three more first-year sensations at Tennessee, Ohio State and Stanford
A 'Melo Season The UConn women think Maya Moore can duplicate the feat of another fab freshman and lead them to a title
ANGIE BJORKLUND, F, Tennessee The sharp-shooting 6-footer (right) leads the No. 3--ranked Lady Vols with 55 three-pointers and averages 10.3 points per game.
Change of Plan Middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik had to switch gears to beat Jermain Taylor in a bruising, surprisingly tight rematch
Fans hoping for another golden age in the middleweight division may have a while to wait. Promoter Bob Arum has said that Kelly Pavlik's first defense could come on June 7 at Madison Square Garden...
ROGER CLEMENS and Lance Armstrong have long defined themselves as transcendent Texans, becoming the stuff of folktales as they performed amazing feats—even if they held disparate visions of what...
Annika serves notice in Hawaii
Did last week's new sponsor, Northern Trust, have any impact?
WHO Phil Mickelson
"Alcohol has a calming effect on golfers and thus is a performance-enhancing drug. It should be banned during competition."
THE FIRST week of the LPGA season also marked the start of the tour's drug-testing policy, which was announced in November 2006 and formulated during the past year. The majority of players agree...
Is the PGA Tour's drug-testing policy too extreme?
For some Tour players, the drug-policy devil is all in the details
After two straight first-round losses, Ernie Els's entering the Match Play is laudable.
The Tour moves to ditch the MDF rule in favor of a Saturday cut
A local's knowledge and a cool commute helped Phil Mickelson earn bragging rights at Riviera
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