November 12, 2001 | Volume 95, Issue 19

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A Wing and a PrayerIn your overrated and underrated issue (The Ratings Game, Aug. 27), Michael Farber wrote that in hockey, experience is overrated and speed is underrated. Then, in the NHL...

Letters

Paul Revere had nothing on today's bleary-eyed World Series viewers

Highlights

At globe-trotting telebasket.com, you can get the lowdown on basketball highfliers in 38 countries

Diamondbacks Manager Bob Brenly wasn't the only person who looked relieved at 11:40 p.m. on Oct. 31, when closer Byung-Hyun Kim finished striking out the side in the bottom of the eighth inning of...

Tim McCarver's last 2001 World Series call was his best. With one out in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7, the bases full and the score 2-2, the Fox analyst said the Yankees should play their...

Parity gives every NFL team a shot, which makes each week a thrill

Between Winter Olympics, skiing lives in a far corner of the sporting public's consciousness, playing out spectacularly but with scant fanfare on distant mountains. Come the Games, though, it...

$2,595Cost of a 14-karat gold replica Lakers 2001 championship ring at the NBA store in New York.

THIS WEEK: BUSHKAZI

We asked people on the streets of the Windy City, the town that Michael Jordan built: Hey, Chicago, what do you think of MJ's comeback?

The 2001 World Series will go down as that of the comeback. So how does it rank among the biggest comebacks in world history? Here are the 10 greatest, according to us.

Fined•Suns coach Scott Skiles, by himself, for saying it was "a joke" that Game 3 of the World Series was shown on the America West Arena's JumboTron screens during the Suns' Oct. 30 home opener....

Carol Langley, 38, a producer for Fox Sports, monitors the audio coming from miked coaches to find snippets for Fox's "Sounds of the Game" feature. She worked every game of this year's World Series.

Diamondbacks reserve outfielder David Dellucci may not have gotten a lot of exposure during the World Series, but his girlfriend more than made up for it. Dellucci is dating Gena Lee Nolin, star...

Loveland (Colo.) High football coach John Poovey was suspended after his players were found to have smeared their jerseys with Pam nonstick cooking spray to become harder to block and tackle.

KEVIN GARNETTTimberwolves forward, on stirring up the Target Center crowd: "It's got to be a rat house in here. It's got to be crazy. I'm talking about, 'The first 10,000 beers are on me!' "

In New York, Deena Drossin proved the U.S. is making strides at that distance

Darren Flutie, a record-threatening CFL receiver, is also a dirt salesman

Montreal Gazette beat writer Red Fisher, 75, has a unique way of covering the NHL

Virginia tight end Chris Luzar has mastered the art of chain saw sculpture

•BEARING DOWNBears rookie running back Anthony Thomas, who averaged 5.4 yards per carry last season as a senior at Michigan, has gained 5.1 yards per attempt through his first seven NFL games (535...

Kim Willoughby, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA.VolleyballWilloughby, a sophomore outside hitter at Hawaii, set a Western Athletic Conference women's record for kills in a match, when she had 43 in leading the...

BEARING DOWN: d. In 1934 Beattie Feathers rushed for 1,004 yards on 119 carries for an average of 8.4 yards, a Bears and NFL record that still stands.

In a scintillating World Series, marked by amazing comebacks, THE DIAMONDBACKS outdueled the Yankees to win their first championship

Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning is proving a worthy namesake to father Archie and brother Peyton

Got a college football question for Ivan Maisel? Chat with SI's gridiron guru every Friday at 2 p.m. EST at cnnsi.com/football/college.

The Bears staged a furious rally to pull out their sixth straight victory—and their second in a row in overtime

In the first week of his comeback Michael Jordan shot poorly, passed deftly and launched a new era for the young Wizards

Thrashers rookie wings Ilya Kovalchuk, 18, and Dany Heatley, 20, are not only fast friends and linemates, but also poetry on ice

For Milwaukee Bucks coach George Karl, romance—and an NBA career—are clearly better the second time around

Duque It OutSupine Yankee catcher Jorge Posada keeps a firm grasp on the ball while teammate Orlando Hernandez loses his grip as he urges home plate umpire Ed Rapuano to punch out Diamondback...

Collage Football

Second ChanceWith time on its side, Michigan State knocked off Michigan on the last play

•YA GOTTA LOVE THIS GUYWhen a back averages 24 carries a game, he knows how to take a lick, but Georgia Tech junior tailback Joe Burns had never felt anything like the sting of the criticism he...

Tony Stallings loves his, er, pets—as much as he does playing at Louisville

Helping HandThings are looking up for the Cowboys, but their front office is still at least a man short

•WORD ASSOCIATIONWith Pro Bowl wideout Joe Horn (left) of the Saints

Owners approved the extension of the collective bargaining agreement through 2006 at last week's fall meeting, but don't assume players will ratify the deal. They want assurances that the salary...

Zab Gets ZappedUnderdog Kostya Tszyu separated Zab Judah from his senses—and his title

1. ZAB JUDAHBest Saturday-night pratfall since Chevy Chase.

Would you send your junior high football team to play a high school squad? Of course not! They'd get whacked. Did you think it was fair that busloads of 12-year-olds got whiffed by 14-year-old...

When it comes to golf collectibles, this father and son team from Cincinnati wrote the book

Opening day is nearing, and the greening of the Florida track has to happen fast

The first time assistant course superintendent John Drouse mowed the steep, 30-foot-high bank behind the new 6th green, he felt like a teenager on a roller coaster. "I was kind of shaky in the...

•World SeriesCanadian Mike Weir's victory, in overtime, is his third on Tour but first in the U.S.

Blimp ReturnsUp, Up And Away

There is no quick fix for what's really ailing the Senior tour—a shortage of star power. Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller will be nice additions next year, but they are not the answer. Tom Watson...

What do these players have in common?

Aside from Woods, who would get your vote for PGA Tour player of the year?

The 2000 season was considered a vintage year on the PGA Tour. Here's how 2001 compared.

Oh, say can you see...anything these days that doesn't come in a Stars and Stripes motif? A few minutes on the Internet turned up this red-white-and-blue golf gear.

Tom Reid, MACON, GA.Reid, 58, manager of an income tax preparation firm, won the Georgia Senior Amateur by a shot with a two-under-par 214 at West Lake Country Club in Augusta. Earlier this year...

Winning the long-drive title is great, but being alive to talk about it is even better

At the Tour Championship, somebody forgot to tell unassuming David Toms he's now among the game's elite