February 21, 2000 | Volume 92, Issue 7

The next chair Ted Ernst should sit in should be the electric chair.—Richard Kolb, Louisville

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Highlights

As evidenced by his 13-rebound debut in a Dallas uniform on Feb. 9, Dennis Rodman still can work the boards—and the ratings. The local Nielsens for the Mavericks' game against the Sonics on Fox...

Backstage at The Arena in Oakland during NBA All-Star weekend, a turnabout took place: Athletes lined up to speak with a reporter. As Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal and Rockets rookie point guard...

A sports game show premiering next month may be a lifeline for the trivia-obsessed

A day at spring training with Derek Jeter, offered by ultimatebid.com

By applying a rigorous set of standards it's possible to separate sport from shinola

An open letter to young NFL fans across America

58Rank of Greg Norman Estates' Cabernet-Merlot Coonawarra among the Wine Spectator 100 best wines of 99.

Flagrant FoulA San Antonio schoolboy threw an elbow in a game. His penalty: five years in jail

Stalked•World 200-meter champion Inger Miller, who pulled out of an indoor meet in Ghent, Belgium, last Thursday for fear that an admirer who had been sending her love letters from Leuven,...

Angered by baseball's treatment of Pete Rose, the Cincinnati city council has proposed the establishment of a city wide Bud Selig Exclusion Zone.

KOBE BRYANTOn the impending return of the Spurs' Sean Elliott from a kidney transplant: "As soon as he steps on the court, that means he's healthy. I'll have no problem putting an elbow to his gut."

Talk of fixed fights taints Japan's sacred sport

When Myriam Bédard, Canada's double gold medalist in the biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics, saw the likeness of a grimacing biathlete (below, right) looking out from an ad for Wrigley's gum,...

Common sense shaped Jack Scott's views

Randy Vataha will help you buy a team or sell it

Andy Roddick is the first American boy to win the Australian junior since 1959

Kyle Farmer, Columbia, Md.Track and FieldKyle, a junior at Oakland Mills High, led the Scorpions to the boys' title at the Howard County indoor championships. He finished first in the 300-meter...

You're the coach of a premier girls' high school basketball program, but other schools keep wooing your top assistant. How do you ensure he'll stick around to give your team a chance to become...

Fight the winter doldrums and hit the beach with the on-line version of SI's annual swimsuit issue. More than 100 photos, plus video clips, coming Feb. 22 at swimsuit.cnnsi.com.

The inside story of the deal, engineered by Reds G.M. Jim Bowden, that sent Ken Griffey Jr. back to Cincinnati at a bargain rate

Few Players have backed a team into so tight a corner as Ken Griffey Jr. did the Mariners, but he's only the latest star to leverage his way out of town. Here are five other franchise players who...

Like, Totally Slippery Runway, DudeDavid Jenkins, a flight attendant for Hawaiian Airlines, rides the barrel of a big wave at Ponto Beach in Southern California.

In what should have been his finest season, high school star Derek Paulsen is mourned throughout South Dakota, by Native Americans and everyone else

While his teammates celebrate an improbable Super Bowl victory, injured Rams quarterback Trent Green is left to wonder what might have been

The frontline play of odd-couple twins Jarron and Jason Collins has opponents seeing double and Stanford flying unexpectedly high

Colorado's Jeff Cirillo is already driven, but he might feel even more heat as the key to the Rockies' transformation

THE NHL

AwestruckCatching the Rocket on the alltime goals list is a humbling feat for the Kings' Luc Robitaille

JOHN VANBIESBROUCKFLYERS GHe's 36, and his trip to the finals with the Panthers in 1996 is the closest he has come to winning the Cup. Philly signed him for '98-99, hoping he would take it over...

Look for 30-year-old Avalanche center Joe Sakic, who will be a restricted free agent this summer, to try to hammer out a long-term extension that would keep him in Colorado for the rest of his...

Sour OrangeAfter 19 straight wins, Syracuse's streak ended with a double thud

There was blood on the ballots again this week as 10 of the 16 teams in last week's report lost at least once. The biggest loser, of course, was Syracuse, which validated the cynicism over its...

A career game by center Joel Pryzbilla brightened Minnesota's down year

No. 2 With a BulletAt the nationals, runner-up Sasha Cohen, 15, augured a dazzling future for U.S. skating

Silent but DeadlyIn a gallery of shooting All-Stars, quiet Tim Duncan's aim was truest

All-star Eddie Jones says he couldn't "care less" that he wasn't selected to play in the 2000 Olympic Games. Jones says that NBA players resent USA Basketball's selection process, which is...

Magic center John Amaechi, the NBA's lone Brit, is playing just to finance his Ph.D. in psychology

Strictly BusinessThe Bills took the unsentimental route, waiving a trio of aging stars

Unless Dan Marino gets a call from the Bucs, offering him a chance to compete with Shaun King for the starting job—which is unlikely, considering the sideshow it would create—his NFL career...

The image—a man stoically standing on the sideline in his trademark headwear—is enduring. "Vie man who wears the funny hat" is how Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach described his coach, Tom...

You know the coolest thing about Tiger Woods's streak?

Where Mickelson FloppedWedge Worries

Don't Expect Tiger Woods to start another winning streak this week at the Nissan Open in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Woods will lay low for a while then work toward a peak effort for the Masters at...

HEIGHT5'10"

I'm finally making my LPGA debut as a 34-year-old rookie

Sutton Barbrey, RaleighSutton, 16, won the 52nd Donald Ross Junior Championships at Pinehurst No. 5, beating a field of 134 boys in the 15-17 age division. After tying Andrew Lanahan at...

THE VIEW FROM THE CADDIE SHACK

Under the new Augusta guidelines, Tour winners are the big losers

•Seventh Heavenwho was happier when Tiger's streak ended, Phil Mickelson or Byron Nelson?

Just as he was about to become victim number 7, Phil Mickelson got off the mat and KO'd Tiger Woods