July 26, 1999 | Volume 91, Issue 4

<b>There was no action in the TCU locker room before the 1957 Cotton Bowl, but what Marvin Newman photographed there is as close to the essence of sports as anything that happens on a playing...

Do you realize you could be British Open champ?

Maybe coaches should recruit more intelligent players who can pass a remedial college writing class while also being able to shoot a layup.—BECKIE FISHER, Champaign, Ill.

Letters to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED should include the name, address and home telephone number of the writer. They may be mailed to The Editor, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Time & Life Building, New York,...

DON'T MISS

1.1Rating (equal to 843,000 households) for the WNBA All-Star Game on ESPN on July 14. Houston, home of the champion Comets, got the highest local rating, a 2.7 (46,000 households).

Credit Fox's Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and Bob Brenly for keeping silent during the moving pregame ceremonies at the All-Star Game. They let the pictures tell the story, as when the camera panned to...

By reading these rules and slavishly following them, you too can learn our noble craft

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This being the season for doubles—the ground rule kind, the mixed kind, the bogey kind—it seemed high time to put out our first summer double issue. This also being vacation season, SPORTS...

Cycling's scandals leave Lance Armstrong in a no-win situation

•That David Cone had torn off his Yankees jersey to reveal an Adidas sports bra.

8Home runs by Mark McGwire in the All-Star Home Run Derby after he cracked his bat.

America knew him as a toddler laughing on his father's knee, in the days when Secret Service agents taught him to box. We wept for him on the day he turned three, as he saluted his slain father....

To help Spanish-speaking ballplayers adapt to life in the U.S., a dozen major league organizations have bought Speaking of Baseball, a 140-page primer featuring chapters on shopping and paying...

On Astros manager Larry Dierker's first day back from brain surgery, outfielder Derek Bell bitched about Dierker's dropping him to sixth in the batting order.

REGGIE JACKSONHall of Famer, asked what numbers he would put up today: "About .240 with about 18 home runs. I'm 53 years old, brother."

Henry Kimbro burned bright in the Negro leagues

As millions flock to beaches to frolic in the midsummer heat, boarddom's faithful seek primo spots for surfing across sand and through surf. Skim these sites to follow your favorite summer board...

A swollen left eye and fifth-round knockdown almost cost David Reid his WBA title

Great sports pictures are the product of technology, ingenuity and passion

Brandy Bailey, Roanoke, Va.SoftballBrandy, a sophomore at Northside High, had nine no-hitters, including four in a row, while going 22-3 with 16 shutouts. Finishing the season with a 0.16 ERA and...

In a stellar career, David Cone had done everything but pitch a no-hitter. So he went out and threw a perfect game

The 128th British Open will be remembered more for the way it was lost by than for how it was won by

Are you ready for some football? Dr. Z asks the hard questions about all 31 NFL teams, and Peter King weighs in with Web-exclusive postcards from training camp.

BASEBALL

The umpires' hardball threat to resign may well backfire on them

July 18,1999Astros 2, Indians 0

Alan Trammell says he may resign as the Tigers' hitting coach after this season if the team's offense doesn't pick up. The disappointing seasons of first baseman Tony Clark (.245, II home runs, 43...

Former Frontier League star Morgan Burkhart is finally on track to the bigs

Short ShriftFor the second year in a row, the U.S. dropped a Davis Cup tie at home

0ATP tour events in 1999 won by a top-seeded player.

Back in the BackThanks to stellar play in MLS, Marcelo Balboa rejoins the U.S. defense

When is inducted into the Hall of Fame this week, it will mark the end of a long comeback from disgrace and despair

Going Back, Back, Back...Kids playing baseball in a tenement alley.BOSTON, 1909

We never thought we'd say it, but in some cases, image is everything. A great picture is worth a thousand words...and may abide for a thousand years

Both Justin Leonard and Craig Parry felt as if they had lost the Open twice

With the possible exception of Sergio Garcia, Tiger Woods had come to Carnoustie as the hottest player in the game. He had won three of his last four starts and tied for third in the other, the...

A year after an unforgettable finish, came to Carnoustie trying to rediscover his magic

Sacrebleu!

For the last 25 years the Voice of Golf has given a royal send-off to every player in the British Open

On Gigha, a tiny island in the birthplace of golf, the game appears headed for a bad end

What do these players have in common?

Should Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, John Daly, Scott Hoch, Steve Jones and Tom Kite be fined or otherwise penalized for pulling out of the British Open?

I enjoy watching the British Open, but I can't help but be a little bit jealous of the men

Whitney Wade, Glasgow, Ky.Whitney, 13, became the youngest winner in the 73-year history of the Kentucky Women's Amateur by birdieing the second playoff hole to beat Velvet Milkman, 34. Whitney,...

Think Carnoustie was tough? Wait'll you see what the R&A has up its sleeve

When an already tough course turned into a killer, everybody screamed bloody murder