July 07, 2008 | Volume 109, Issue 1

Founder: Henry R. Luce 1898--1967

Prose Garden

Sports sell black culture, but do fans fully accept the athletes behind it?

WHO'S Hot

Who has the best RAW POWER in baseball?

Overcome By thick green seaweed (above), the sailing venue for the Beijing Olympics. Last week the waters of the Bay of Qingdao, 200 miles southeast of Beijing, became filled with sludgy algae,...

WARREN SAPP Former NFL defensive lineman, on his career total of 96 1/2 sacks: "It would've been real nice to get 100 sacks and all that, but I'm O.K. with 96.5. It's triple digits, right?"

A Russian businessman promised the country's soccer team "two beautiful chicks" for each goal they scored before a 3--0 loss to Spain in the Euro 2008 semifinals.

Little Leaguers prep for a rare trip to Cuba

0 Hits allowed by Angels pitchers Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo in last Saturday's 1--0 loss to the Dodgers, the fifth time since 1900 that a team threw a no-hitter and lost.

WHILE HE was growing up in O'Fallon, Ill., Bernie Fuchs's ambition was to become a trumpet player. But after graduating from Washington University's School of Fine Arts in 1954 he landed a job...

YANKEES PITCHER

A rapper's hoops documentary falls short

THREE YEARS after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, Terry Bradshaw (right) and Reggie Bush have helped produce Walking on Dead Fish, a documentary about the effect Katrina had on East St....

What to watch and watch for

UNTIL MAY of this year David Carle seemed ready to follow the path his big brother, Matt, blazed to the NHL. A star at the University of Denver, Matt was taken in the second round of the 2003...

Justin Gaymon STEWARTSVILLE, N.J. > Track and Field Gaymon, a junior at Georgia, defended his Southeastern Conference and NCAA East Regional titles in the 400-meter hurdles, winning in 48.53...

The Interview Joe Alexander A.K.A. VANILLA SKY

What to watch, starting with an intriguing trade market

BREAKING NEWS, REAL-TIME SCORES AND DAILY ANALYSIS.

Breaking News • Real-time Scores • Daily Analysis

The nerve-rattling U.S. track and swimming trials opened with a blaze of records and—for both hopefuls and past champions—the searing pain of coming up short

Top Dogs

BREAKING NEWS, REAL-TIME SCORES AND DAILY ANALYSIS.

Racing has come a long way from the days of leather helmets and steel guardrails—and the pace of change continues to accelerate. After Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash in 2001, NASCAR worked with...

The only sure thing as the Sprint Cup season roars into its second half is that there's plenty of racing to come. For now, here are five questions to consider

With nine races remaining until the start of the Chase, when the top 12 drivers will vie for the Sprint Cup, it's time to hand out the hardware to racing's best and worst so far in 2008

Inside Tennis A series of titanic upsets in the women's draw highlighted a wild first week at Wimbledon • Another sweet-stroking Swiss makes his mark at the All England Club

A succession of seismic upsets in the first week at Wimbledon revealed the new depth in the women's ranks

A versatile Swiss player with an affable disposition and a stop-traffic-gorgeous backhand breezed into Wimbledon's fourth round without dropping a set. And so did Roger Federer. Stanislas...

Manny Pacquiao, the sport's biggest little star, moved up a weight class and crushed David Diaz for his fourth title

Two big names have big bouts ahead—though not necessarily against their preferred foes.

Fans weren't crazy about the Knicks' pick, but the team's new leadership has a plan—and its eyes on LeBron in 2010

On the draft-day moves of the Pacers, who used a pair of trades to add seven players while unloading the contract of center Jermaine O'Neal:

"All the jocks stand up." —Words allegedly uttered by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as they began a shooting rampage at Columbine (Colo.) High, leaving 15 dead, on April 20, 1999

A singing star finds a harmonic convergence between golf and music

It's sad that Americans at the U.S. Women's Open were outplayed and outnumbered.

Greg Norman weds Chris Evert at an exclusive resort in the Bahamas

On the 10th anniversary of Se Ri Pak's game-changing U.S. Women's Open victory, countrywoman Inbee Park matched her role model at wonderfully quirky Interlachen

Kenny Perry reaches Valhalla

Someone stands to gain from Tiger's absence—but who?

PRO-AMS ARE odd spectacles. They're kind of like a safari park: You see a lot of strange critters up close performing jaw-dropping and sometimes hilarious stunts. Last week's Wednesday Gong Show...

WHO Inbee Park

"Junior golf is in a bad place in the U.S. because the bar is way too high, and kids are so over-worked they're missing out on being kids."

Will Michelle Wie win an LPGA event?