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TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 18, 2002 | Volume 96, Issue 7
February 18, 2002 Feats of Daron-DoU.S. skier Daron Rahlves airs it out during the men's downhill competition at the Winter Olympics. He finished 16th (page 46).
February 18, 2002 | Tim Alan Smith AUGUST 28, 1978
Another opening, another great show: Why the Winter Games are sport's headiest brew
the guide
February 18, 2002 Matt Bonner, junior forward and 3.97 student, Florida
February 18, 2002 The online auction items of the week
With figure skating heating up at the Olympics this week, we checked in with NBC analyst Scott Hamilton, the 1984 men's gold medalist.
February 18, 2002 A Cat's LifeConsidering the now well-documented SI Jinx, how could you have put an innocent cat on the cover of the issue? Is the poor feline still alive? Were the cat and its agent aware of the...
February 18, 2002 Letters
The trouble with All-Star games—and how to make them better
February 18, 2002 | Don Yaeger Two years ago Tracy Lee, a deputy in the Gwinnett (Ga.) County sheriff's office, stood at the front door of a house in Duluth and asked the woman inside, "You're not the Olga Korbut, are you?" Lee...
February 18, 2002 Former Virginia basketball coach Terry Holland used to crow about naming his dog Dean, after Tarheels coach Dean Smith, because, Holland said, "it whines so much." In honor of the Westminster...
February 18, 2002 | Don Yaeger 14-20Years that Wyoming senior Clinton Haskins could spend in prison after pleading guilty to eight counts of aggravated vehicular homicide in a September car crash; the truck he was driving while...
Forward Jeff Odgers is the Thrashers' designated brawler, and he has a ready explanation for how a tough guy can be a teddy bear around children. "A lot of the scrapping has to do with caring...
February 18, 2002 | Brett Martin Take some of the grooviest icons of the 1970s—Dr. J, Scooby-Doo, Parliament-Funkadelic, Fat Albert—mix them together, throw them into a Saturday morning cartoon, and you might come up with...
February 18, 2002 Nude•And loving it, the members of Scotland's Robert Gordon University crew team, who, according to captain Andrew Shannon, are training in the buff to "find out what natural assets we have for...
February 18, 2002 A musical version of Rocky and a stage show based on the life of Jesse Ventura are just two of the sports-themed productions in the works for Broadway. Here are some jock-centered shows that have...
February 18, 2002 No one had a more camera-friendly NBA All-Star weekend than rapper Lil' Bow Wow, who was in Philly filming scenes for his upcoming movie Like Mike. Bow (below) stars as a 14-year-old orphan who...
February 18, 2002 A Cameroon soccer coach was banned from the sport for a year after allegedly dropping a charm believed to contain black magic onto the field during a semifinal match at the African Cup of Nations.
February 18, 2002 TONY SIRAGUSARecently retired Ravens tackle, placing his dinner order at Emeril Lagasse's restaurant in New Orleans: "Keep it coming until I puke. Then hit me again."
February 18, 2002 Zach Parisé, FAIRBAULT, MINN.HockeyZach, a senior at Shattuck-St. Mary's School, was named MVP of the Mac's AAA Midget Hockey Tournament for the second consecutive year, the first time a player...
February 18, 2002 •STAR TREATMENTLast February, Denver's Pepsi Center hosted the 2001 NHL All-Star Game, and in June the Avalanche won the Stanley Cup. That made Denver the first city since New York in 1994 to be...
With a new coach and a better body, Pete Sampras took a rare Davis Cup turn
Check out these cool items to help you see and be seen in the great outdoors
Miguel Batista is a budding star on the mound and a budding writer off it
February 18, 2002 | Charles Hirshberg The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of BasketballBy Charley Rosen428 pages, $27.95
Despite tight security and stark reminders of Sept. 11, the Games of Salt Lake City took flight with a burst of high-flying competition and international goodwill
By taking four of the six medals in halfpipe—including both golds and a historic sweep on the men's side—the U.S. proved its air superiority
A quiet member of the deep Austrian team, Fritz Strobl roared down the ferocious downhill track to gold
As the NBA hit midseason and turned for home, we asked executives and coaches from all 29 teams to answer our burning questions
After an off-season of cruisin', peerless—but oft-injured—Rangers catcher Ivan Rodriguez is eager to prove that he's shipshape
Season-ending injuries in 2000 and '01 interrupted the most productive offensive stretch of Ivan Rodriguez's 11-year career. In 346 games since the start of the 1999 season, he has batted .328...
Ohio high school junior LeBron James is so good that he's already being mentioned as the heir to Air Jordan
February 18, 2002 College Basketball
February 18, 2002 For complete coverage of the Winter Games, including daily on-the-scene reports from SI's team in Salt Lake City, go to cnnsi.com/olympics.
Bruising BearcatsCincinnati has clawed to No. 5 with good defense and an uncanny toughness
Are there any good teams out there besides our four No. 1 seeds? Fourteen of the AP's Top 25 lost at least once last week, marking the sixth straight week in this season of parity that 14 or more...
CHRIS THOMASFRESHMAN, GUARD, NOTRE DAME
VMI's Jason Conley, a freshman, is leading the nation in scoring
No Pain, Big GainA healthy Markus Naslund is back in the groove and fueling the resurgent Canucks
Bryan MarchmentSHARKS DIn 14 seasons through Sunday he had 153 points while racking up 1,948 penalty minutes. He had been suspended II times (four for kneeing incidents), missing a total of 34 games.
During the Olympic break the NHL's referees and linesmen—other than Dennis LaRue, Bill McCreary and Stephen Walkom, who will be working at the Salt Lake City Games—will attend training sessions...
Urban CowboysTexas landed the top class of recruits by signing stars from the state's inner cities
Missouri guard Kareem Rush is in the spotlight that once shone on his older brother, JaRon, whose poor decisions may have cost him an NBA career
Olympics? Polygamist Timothy Wadlow doesn't have time for any Olympics. He's got three wives, three houses and 28 kids to juggle. You sure they don't give a medal for this kind of thing?
Torrey Pines and Riviera, separated by 70 miles and seven days on the Tour schedule, find themselves vying for the same prize
Two tours, same story: The short knocker ain't dead yet
Phil Mickelson has no hope of dethroning Tiger Woods until he learns to bring Woods's intensity to every round. The disparity was obvious last week, when Tiger clawed from the cut line to a top...
José María Olazábal won the Buick Invitational because he did what J.L. Lewis couldn't: stiff a wedge on the final hole
The key to hitting wedge shots is to pivot your shoulders, rather than manipulate the club with your arms and hands. Regardless of the length of the shot, make the same size pivot on the...
Were Tiger Woods playing this week at the Nissan Open, at which he is winless in seven appearances, he could have inched closer to another Jack Nicklaus benchmark: O-fer nine in L.A....
February 18, 2002 There was no Crosby weather at Pebble Beach this year, but it did rain—spittle, that is. When rookie Pat Perez wasn't busy excavating fairways with his three-wood, he seemed to spend an awful lot...
February 18, 2002 During a weekend getaway to Las Vegas in November, Notah Begay surprised his girlfriend, Apryl Sandoval, with a helicopter trip to the Grand Canyon. After a picnic lunch he escorted her to a...
February 18, 2002 With the PGA tour visiting Torrey Pines and Riviera in back-to-back weeks, which retooled course would make a better host for the U.S. Open?
Whether on the Senior tour (Bobby) or on the TV tower (Lanny), the Wadkins brothers are coming on strong
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