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TABLE OF CONTENTS
October 23, 2000 | Volume 93, Issue 16
It's time to get serious about this St. Louis phenomenon and ask the question: Can anyone stop the Rams? Surely some eager defensive coordinator is thirsting for a chance to make his reputation...
In this corner, Mike Tyson wants to eat your children. In that corner, Andrew Golota wants to keep you from having children. In the middle, 5'8", 172-pound referee Frank Garza Jr. stands in his...
October 23, 2000 I can't buy you a drink, Al McGuire, but I'm sure going to drink to you.—BOB SWERCHECK, Slatington, Pa.
October 23, 2000 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, 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y....
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Allen Iverson's controversial rap CD blares an ugly worldview at odds with his cushy lifestyle
Highlights
Meet Joe Buck. His dad, Hall of Fame baseball and football broadcaster Jack Buck, you already know. His mother, Carol, who in her bachelorette days portrayed sexpot secretary Hedy LaRue on...
The web brings you the Paralympics from Australia in real time
Nobody planned it—nobody could—but only 57 seconds elapsed between the final pitch of last Saturday's Cardinals-Mets Game 3 and the first pitch of Mariners-Yankees Game 4. Speaking of Game 4,...
October 23, 2000 It's time to revise the list of the greatest records in sports history
October 23, 2000 Walter Payton, 275 rushing yards in a game, 1977.Just last week two players rushed for 200-plus. Payton's mark isn't far off.
October 23, 2000 Last week, after deliberating for a little more than two hours, a jury of five women and three men awarded $2 million in punitive damages to Heather Sue Mercer, the placekicker who sued Duke...
October 23, 2000 During the playoffs we've watched Roger Clemens dominate with his splitter and Al Leiter set hitters down with a cutter. As diehard fans we're clear on the difference between the two pitches,...
October 23, 2000 6'10", 517Height and weight of Reny Nunes, a senior two-way lineman for Roselle Park (N.J.) High.
October 23, 2000 On Nov. 3 The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Matt Damon as a washed-up golfer and Will Smith as a mystical caddie, hits movie theaters. We enlisted real-life caddie Alfred (Rabbit) Dyer, 63, who...
October 23, 2000 (Q) What are those garish ribbons being worn by the Fox sportscasting crew during baseball's postseason?
October 23, 2000 Added•By Little League Baseball International, a softball division for boys aged five to 18, in part "to protect the integrity" of girls' softball. There was an uproar at this year's softball...
October 23, 2000 Former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne and longtime NFL tight end Russ Francis—Republican candidates for Congress from Nebraska and Hawaii, respectively—are the latest in a long line of sports...
October 23, 2000 Ah, autumn, when the air is filled with falling leaves and wedding news. The latest buzz is that Kobe Bryant will soon marry his 18-year-old fiancée, Vanessa Laine (below, with Bryant). Bryant,...
October 23, 2000 Women's Olympic marathon champion Naoko Takahashi of Japan revealed that she boosts her stamina for races by drinking the stomach juices of three-inch-long killer hornets that can travel 60 miles...
October 23, 2000 BOB PLAGERFormer St. Louis Blue, now the team's director of professional scouting: "We had concussions when we played, too—only we called them hangovers."
October 23, 2000 Kate Hagstrom, PORTOLA, CALIF.VolleyballHagstrom, a senior setter at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, became the fourth woman in Division III history with 400 service aces after she nailed nine...
October 23, 2000 Guidance for those lost in sports
With a last-minute victory over the archrival Chief, the surprising 5-1 Raiders showed that they are once again a force to be recknoed with
Playing with a painful knee injury, Chris Armas gave his all in a World Cup qualifier and the MLS final—and came up empty
With Gotham transfixed by the prospect of a Subway Series, the Mets got through the turnstile by beating the Cardinals while the Yankees took command over the Mariners
October 23, 2000 Follow our pitch-by-pitch coverage of the World Series, with exclusive on-the-scene analysis by SI's Tom Verducci, Stephen Cannella and Jeff Pearlman.
Roger Clemens Delivers a Gem in the Postseason
October 23, 2000 Tell DuqueThe Mariners' Alex Rodriguez breaks for second base as the Yankees' Orlando Hernandez delivers a pitch in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series (page 48).
In only its second season under Bob Stoops, Oklahoma knocked off No. 2 Kansas State, serving notice that it's back on the road to glory
Bill Mazeroski's epic home run 40 years ago capped the wackiest World Series of them all
October 23, 2000 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
A Real Eye-OpenerJolted awake by a loss to Penn State, Purdue has soared to first place in the Big Ten
•Virginia Tech (6-0) at Syracuse (3-3)Hokies coach Frank Beamer has won 17 consecutive regular-season games and three of the last five Big East Conference titles. But he's 0-5 in the Carrier Dome....
Derrick Walker is too used to handling difficult roles. He succeeded former Kansas State star and current New England Patriots backup Michael Bishop as quarterback at Blinn (Texas) Junior College....
Minnesota junior quarterback Travis Cole, who replaced freshman Asad Abdul-Khaliq as the starter on Sept. 30, practiced so poorly four days before the Gophers' game at Ohio State last Saturday...
Notre Dame's Shane Walton chose football over a promising soccer career
Winning in StyleIt's not just that Patrick Roy has a record number of wins, it's how he won 'em
ANSON CARTERBRUINS RWThe 26-year-old Toronto native is a physical player who has nifty skills and is coming off a 22-goal season. He's not playing because of a contract dispute and says, "Maybe...
Canadiens wing Dainius Zubrus scored his first NHL hat trick in a 5-4 win over the Blackhawks last Saturday, but four nights earlier his teammates weren't so thrilled with him. Immediately...
Back to SchoolCan John Calipari rebuild Memphis's once proud reputation?
Utah Coach Rick Majerus apparently doesn't think much of the prognosticating of the journalists who cover the Mountain West Conference. When asked about a media poll that picked the Utes to win...
Labor of LoveJunior Seau, the consummate pro, pushes on for the lowly Chargers
Owners are leaning toward adopting a balanced schedule when Houston enters the league in 2002, meaning the idea of so-called rivalry scheduling—giving each team one game a season against a natural...
October 23, 2000 My Two Cents
October 23, 2000 Headache.The Cowboys' Troy Aikman ranks dead last in the league in passer rating, with a 38.5 mark. After a five-interception disaster against the Giants, it's worth asking if Aikman, a month shy...
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