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TABLE OF CONTENTS
May 07, 2001 | Volume 94, Issue 19
May 07, 2001 If darts is a sport, then so is channel surfing.—GREG GOODIE, Fall River, Nova Scotia
May 07, 2001 LETTERS
With apologies to Don McLean—the songwriter, not the journeyman forward—we lament a long-lost NBA
Highlights
Power ratings on lacrosse's most influential website dare to differ with the national polls
A plea to Charles Barkley: Drop the celery, forget the comeback and return to your previous goal of achieving corpulent bliss. It's not that we wouldn't enjoy seeing you and Michael make a playoff...
Lifting his game in the postseason, NBA on NBC studio analyst Kevin Johnson showed some welcome on-air forthrightness last Saturday by declaring that in the wake of the Hornets' sweep of the Heat...
FEBRUARY 19, 1996
Was Babe Ruth black? More important, should we care?
Moses Fleetwood WalkerCatcher for Toledo Blue Stockings of American Association (then a major league) in 1884, 63 years before Jackie Robinson's debut. Batted .263 in 42 games.
Saturday's Kentucky Derby appears to have its deepest field since 1973. That's the year Secretariat won the 1¼-mile classic in 1:59 2/5, still the record time, and led a parade of quality horses...
May 07, 2001 Playoff beards were once as hallowed a hockey tradition as the gap-toothed grin. In a show of esprit de corps, players set aside their razors from the beginning of the first round until their...
4,000Slugging percentage through Monday of Cardinals reliever Gene Stechschulte, who had a homer and a walk in two pinch-hit appearances.
May 07, 2001 Stay prepped for the playoffs: Phil Taylor answers your questions in his NBA mailbag and Marty Burns breaks down each and every postseason matchup at cnnsi.com/basketball.
May 07, 2001 Sony's Basketball
May 07, 2001 Scrambling to assemble a press packet on surprise third-round draft pick Sean Brewer (88, below), a tight end from San Jose State, Bengals media relations staffers drafted a release culled from...
May 07, 2001 DiedNepalese mountaineer Babu Chhiri Sherpa, 35, after he fell into a crevasse at 20,400 feet on Mount Everest. Babu had summited Everest 10 times, in 1999 spending a record 21 hours atop the...
May 07, 2001 Heavyweight champ Hasim Rahman's victory parade in Baltimore was cut short last week when the convertible carrying him and his wife, Crystal, collided with a cab. That reminded us that sports...
May 07, 2001 Touchy, touchy. After the New York Daily News reported that Tiger Woods had invited Miss Universe Lara Dutta—a.k.a. Derek Jeter's main squeeze—to last Saturday's Tiger Jam IV benefit concert in...
May 07, 2001 To boost their sport's appeal, officials of table tennis's world governing body said they're considering having women compete in skimpier outfits.
May 07, 2001 DAVE McGINNISCardinals coach, on the team's first-round draft pick, 6'6", 370-pound, offensive lineman Leonard Davis: "He'll play in this league a long, long time, unless he gets hit by a truck....
May 07, 2001 Bobby Kingsbury, LYNDHURST, OHIOBaseballKingsbury, a sophomore centerfielder at Fordham, set a single-game school record and tied an NCAA mark when he stole eight bases in a 5-1 defeat of Wagner....
The Blazers spent big to become worthy challengers to the Lakers, but Kobe, Shaq and Co. toyed with them in a first-round sweep
Coach Paul Silas and the Hornets settled old scores with lopsided new ones in a sweep of the favored Heat
Even as the Bucks took the series lead, Magic forward Tracy McGrady, all of 21, ran—and talked—them ragged
How Jorge Posada went from a too slow infielder to a starring role behind the plate for the Yankees
If Jorge Posada continues to put up numbers like those he amassed in his first four full seasons, he'll earn the right to be mentioned in the same breath as his illustrious predecessors behind the...
With newly arrived Kevin Carter anchoring one flank and Jevon Kearse the other, the Titans' pass rush will pack a fearsome one-two punch
The Penguins' hopes don't rest merely on Mario Lemieux but also on little-known goalie Johan (Moose) Hedberg
May 07, 2001 Dawn's Early FlightA solitary surfer catches a wave at daybreak before the beginning of the Rip Curl Pro tournament at Bells Beach near Torquay, Australia.
As they limp into the sunset, retired NFL players struggle with the game's grim legacy: a lifetime of disability and pain
May 07, 2001 BASEBALL
Carrying a Big StickSoft-spoken Juan Gonzalez, healthy and happy again, is off to a loud start in Cleveland
Two advance scouts, one from each league, discuss what they saw and heard last week
April 26Red Sox 2, Twins 0
Late-blooming L.A. backstop Paul Lo Duca is a hit behind and at the plate
Smashing SuccessWith a pair of postseason overtime goals, Adam Deadmarsh has been reborn in L.A.
JOHN LECLAIRFLYERS LW
The rash of face and eye injuries in recent seasons has led a number of young NHL players to experiment with visors at the world championships, which started last week in Cologne, Germany. Among...
Starting at The TopThe U.S. is unbeaten in World Cup qualifying. Why is the once-struggling team so torrid?
Promise me one thing. Promise that at the end of this you won't feel sorry for Jack Buck.
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