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TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 12, 2001 | Volume 94, Issue 6
NOVEMBER 5, 1984
February 12, 2001 Reilly, you forgot a stud...yourself.—CHERI SCHNITKER, Tempe, Ariz.
February 12, 2001 LETTERS
If three noted bards had rendered the sporting scene in verse, it might have gone something like this
Highlights
A video that exuberantly celebrates hip-hop hoops soars to the top of the best-seller list
If a golf organization in the mold of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is ever formed, we'll probably have Sal Johnson to thank for it. Like Bill James's Baseball Abstracts in the...
It may not be the best sports film, but it certainly has one of the most memorable titles: Stockard Channing, Julius Erving and Jonathan Winters star in the 1979 cheesefest The Fish That Saved...
A horrific death calls attention to the ugly world of dogfights
Breeds responsible for the most fatal attacks on humans in the U.S. from 1979 to '98, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association:
A few hours before he left office Bill Clinton signed 176 grants of clemency. While the nation has focused on the higher-profile pardons, such as the one for fugitive billionaire financier Marc...
February 12, 2001 THIS WEEK: EXTREME SNOWMOBILING
45Days in jail that Mitchell Gluckman, 49, of Northridge, Calif., was sentenced to for threatening to kill his son's Little League manager because his boy played only three innings.
February 12, 2001 SYNOPSISThe jaunty music, the gravity-defying ball, the virtuoso club control...they're all back in Nike's sequel to 1999's much-buzzed-about "Hackysack" spot. This time Woods ups the ante by...
February 12, 2001 | Mark Mravic Bronc Burnett
February 12, 2001 Threatened•Fighting bulls, as a source of Spanish culinary delicacies. Carcasses of the 11,000 bulls killed annually in the ring normally are sold to butchers—the tail and testicles are...
A U.S. businessman purchased a hunk of Canada's patrimony out of the bargain bin last week. George Gillett Jr. spent $184 million (all figures U.S.) to buy the 21,273-seat Molson Centre and 80.1%...
February 12, 2001 Teamwork is everything: It's a lesson former major league outfielder Elliott Maddox (below) learned well. That's why he's calling no fewer than 40 ex-big leaguers to testify on his behalf in his...
February 12, 2001 Mark Chmura said now that he has been acquitted of sexual assault and child enticement, he's going to Disney World.
February 12, 2001 VENUS WILLIAMSAsked after the Australian Open what she knows about the host country: "Australia was started as a penal colony in the beginning. They went on to become patriotic Australians, got...
February 12, 2001 Theodore Minor, HYATTSVILLE, MD.Flag and Touch FootballMinor, 39, the headwaiter at the CIA dining room, was inducted into the U.S. Flag and Touch Football League Hall of Fame. In 17 years as a...
February 12, 2001 Guidance for those lost in sports
The XFL drew big crowds and boffo ratings on its debut weekend, but can it keep the ball rolling with a mix of babes, bombast and barely adequate football?
BIG BROTHER'S WATCHING, BUT ONLY A HANDFUL OF XFL PLAYERS SEEM LIKELY TO HAVE AN NFL FUTURE
With a defeat of Duke, fiery new coach Matt Doherty guided North Carolina to the No.1 ranking
Butch Davis left Miami scrambling when he betrayed his players and bolted for a big-money deal with the Browns
February 12, 2001 For wall-to-wall coverage of NBA All-Star weekend, including exclusive on-site analysis from SI's Phil Taylor and Marty Burns, go to cnnsi.com/basketball.
Can Mark Chmura, acquitted of sexual assault, rebuild his reputation?
Theo Ratliff has gone from awkward child to the NBA's most intimidating shot blocker
February 12, 2001 Just Call Me JonahA rainbow trout fingerling peeks out from the gullet of the northern pike that has just had it for lunch. The fish were part of a demonstration at the Alaska Department of Fish...
February 12, 2001 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Free and Not So EasyBecause foul free throw shooting can be costly, prescriptions for improvement are needed
Our selection committee had plenty to ponder after three No. 1 seeds and two No. 2s lost last week. Amid all that carnage, Stanford stayed No. 1 in the West despite its first defeat of the season,...
In the month since Seton Hall's Eddie Griffin put a shiner on teammate Ty Shine, the Pirates have gone 2-5 (putting them at 3-6 in the Big East) and are in danger of missing the NCAA tournament....
Missouri's Kareem Rush is quietly escaping the shadow of big brother JaRon
Air ConditionNot even Michael Jordan can immediately elevate the Wizards
Hoping to persuade the Chinese government and Chinese basketball officials to let 7'6" Yao Ming and 7-foot Wang Zhizhi play in the NBA, agent Bill Duffy has invited the acting Chinese ambassador...
On the Magic, which last week won four games in five nights, including a double-overtime victory at Philadelphia:
Bucks forward Glenn Robinson"When I was in junior high school in Gary, Ind., I stole some India ink from my art class and tattooed the inside of my left forearm with GLENN THE ROCKSTER. I wrapped...
That Old MagicMike Keenan showed he still has the touch by getting Boston on track
With the league beginning its break for the Olympics only two days before the start of next year's Winter Games in Salt Lake City, one of the most difficult challenges facing national teams will...
MONTREAL CANADIENSBought last week by Colorado businessman George Gillett, the NHL's most storied franchise—a record 23 Stanley Cups—has a lousy roster and struggles financially because most of...
Hey, kids, let's have some fun!
Limbaugh Plays Pebble BeachThe Tour's Mr. Right
Phil Mickelson made the right play at 18 on Sunday. Going for the oceanside green with a driver from 257 yards might seem like a poor decision when, if he had laid up, a wedge and a one-putt would...
What do these players have in common?
Should alcohol be banned at Tour events?
Synonyms far: A Bumpy GreenAlmond Roca, beauty marks, brickyard, bumper pool, cemetery, crater face, goose bumps, granola, ground zero, lava field, Lombard Street, minefield, Pebble Beach,...
February 12, 2001 Hilary Homeyer, Edina, Minn.Homeyer, a senior at Stanford, led wire to wire while winning the South Atlantic Ladies Amateur at Oceanside Country Club in Ormond Beach, Fla. An honorable mention...
February 12, 2001 | Cameron Martin Shame on Kenneth Green and SI for launching an ill-informed personal attack against my brother
February 12, 2001 | Andy Brumer Two of the game's most influential instructors, David Leadbetter and Jim McLean, recently issued their takes on Ben Hogan's techniques—Leadbetter in a book, The Fundamentals of Hogan, McLean in a...
February 12, 2001 •Sevens from HeavenThe secret to success at Pebble Beach? That's easy—fall behind by seven shots during the final round.
Written off as too soft during a long winless streak, Davis Love III came on strong to overpower Pebble
There's more to the upcoming renovation at Florida than meets the eye
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