Leading Off

Departments

14 Catching Up With...
15 Letters
104 The Life of Reilly

Scorecard

21 Sosa's fun run
WNBA ascendant
Are the Yankees serious?
Ominous omen for Marino
As the coaching merry-go-round turns
Hull was full of bull
Faces in the Crowd
SI View

Inside...

72 Baseball
81 The NFL
90 College Football

32 Baseball

The Good Father
Like his dad before him, Mark McGwire long suffered in silence. Not until he let his emotions show did he become the parent he really An wanted to be
by Rick Reilly

46 Diehards
Two last-place teams. The last week in August. A hot, muggy night in Cincinnati . Let's play two!
by Michael Bamberger

54 College Football
Kick Start
Powerful Florida State outbattled Texas A&M 23-14 to open the season with a Kickoff Classic victory
by Gerry Callahan