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TABLE OF CONTENTS
August 25, 2003 | Volume 99, Issue 8
August 25, 2003 The Drive for FiveThanks for putting Lance Armstrong on the cover, but to summarize the Tour de France in a mere two pages is an injustice (Tour de Lance, Aug. 4). The most compelling race in...
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Freshly frisked at security, elbowed out of both armrests, kneecapped by the seat back in front of you: You might equate three hours in a stadium seat with three hours of flying coach. But that's...
At 14, U.S. striker Freddy Adu has the world at his feet and offers pouring in, but is he the superstar who'll finally make America fall in love with soccer?
Bliss told players to lie about Dennehy
17Career home runs hit by Twins second baseman Luis Rivas in his five-year career.
COURTING NASCAR NATION
August 25, 2003 M-I-S-S-P-E-L-L-E-DOn Anaheim outfielder Adam Riggs's jersey, the word angels. Riggs took the field last Saturday against the Tigers wearing a jersey that read ANGEES and didn't notice the error...
Investigated
August 25, 2003 | Bill Scheft Good to be here. Just finished reading last week's issue of SI.... I'm telling you, Walt Disney must be turning over in his liquid nitrogen.
One of the world's best-selling rap artists, the 27-year-old Queens native is the voice of CBS Sports' 2003 NFL promotional campaign.
August 25, 2003 Hey, good lookin', whatcha got cookin'? Handsome young couple Andy Roddick and Mandy Moore should be asking each other that question on Thursday—four days before the start of the U.S. Open—when...
August 25, 2003 Hey, look, somebody threw away a bunch of perfectly good football players. Actually, Central Florida's (from left) Evandall Williams, Paul Carrington, Patrick Holland, Kyle Watkins and Tywin...
August 25, 2003 BARRY LARKINReds shortstop, on discussions about his future with the team, which has an interim manager and no G.M. "We've decided to take a wait-and-see approach-mostly wait, because we don't...
August 25, 2003 Ozzy Osbourne sang Take Me Out to the Ball Game at Wrigley Field on Sunday.
Anna on E!, Collins Back in Booth, Finding the Playoffs
August 25, 2003 Joanna Lohman, SILVER SPRING, MD.SoccerLohman, a senior at Penn State University and captain of the United States Under-21 national soccer team, led the team to its fifth straight Nordic Cup...
For kids and fans alike, the LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES is now a major league event
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Which is a better sports town? Two SI writers from those cities square off
Pennsylvanians weigh in on sports*
On a scale of 1 to 100, how would you rate your state's enthusiasm for sports, relative to other states'?83.0Rank: 1st of first 6 states polled
To see a gallery of every 76ers, Flyers and Phillies cover, view Pitt and Penn State stories from the SI archives, or to vote for the best QB from the Keystone State, go to...
Sammy Sosa has been the game's most prolific power hitter over the past two months. But is that enough to redeem him from his corked-bat sin?
August 25, 2003 PinpointShaun Micheel, playing the 72nd hole of the PGA Championship with a one-shot lead on Sunday, was 175 yards from the pin when he hit this seven-iron approach. The ball came to rest two...
The cubs don't do heartbreakers. They haven't lost a pennant race by fewer than five games since 1937. If they are to keep that record intact in the vacuum-packed NL Central—Chicago, St. Louis and...
With the big names stuck in the rough, Shaun Micheel cruised to the PGA Championship and proved that the majors are now anyone's game
Michael Vick's broken leg on a meaningless scramble in a preseason game knocks the wind out of the Falcons and robs the NFL of its brightest star
From Ancient Andre's antics to the Battle of the Belgians, we serve up eight plot lines that could make for two bizarre weeks in Flushing Meadow
Rutgers is the biggest school in New Jersey, a state swarming with good young players. Yet over the last decade the Scarlet Knights are 32-83-1. The coach says things are turning around. Many...
Exactly 100 years ago, Christy Mathewson and John McGraw rescued the woeful New York Giants and helped make baseball the true national pastime
August 25, 2003 Baseball
First MoveMike Piazza warms to the idea of playing a new position for the Mets
Khalil Greene
SECOND THOUGHTS
Led by explosive quarterback Asad Abdul-Khaliq, Minnesota looks to pull off a surprise in the Big Ten
Who are the potential surprises in the other major conferences? These teams weren't among SI's preseason Top 25 but could disrupt the balance of power if the ball bounces their way.
The Giants piece together a new, and raw, look up front
For the second year in a row the Raiders got an apparent gem at tight end with a second-round pick. Last year it was Doug Jolley of BYU; this year it's 6'5", 255-pound Teyo Johnson of Stanford,...
I had six cars in front of me the other day. Not one of them moving. And I was running out of time. So...I just ran right over them.
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