Leading Off

Departments

12 Catching Up With...
16 Letters
112 The Life of Reilly

23 Scorecard

The case for baseball
Scandal at Northwestern
Courting women basketballers
Giant flick
DeBartolo vs. Policy
Faces in the Crowd
SI View

Inside...

78 The NHL
80 The NFL
86 The NBA
94 Baseball

NCAA Basketball

36 Witherin' Wildcats
Kentucky rallied from a double-digit deficit—again—to beat Utah and win its second national championship in the last three years
by Alexander Wolff

46 Remember the Alamo!
The Final Four came to San Antonio with the usual ticket scalpers, hoops freaks and sweat-suit-clad coaches, but this time a Riverwalk ran through it
by Steve Rushin

54 Good, Better, Best
An unprecedented third straight women's crown answers the question, Are the 39-0 Lady Vols, led by Chamique Holdsclaw, the greatest ever?
by Kelli Anderson