Who's Hot Who's Not

Who's Hot

Jermaine Dye
Last July he was recovering from infected spider bites. This year he's bugging pitchers with 25 home runs and 68 RBIs (on pace for career highs), and he sent himself off to the All-Star Game with a two-out, game-tying, ninth-inning homer that led to a 19th-inning win for the Chisox.

Bryan Brothers
Those perky tennis twins, Bob and Mike, keep getting identical results: By winning Wimbledon they completed a career Grand Slam and won $406,000. It was their seventh straight trip to a finals.

Denver Mainstays
Not going anywhere. Avalanche captain and 17-year-vet Joe Sakic inked a one-year deal to stay with the only NHL franchise he's played for, and young Nugget Carmelo Anthony signed for five years and about $80 million.

Jose Canseco
Now playing for the independent Long Beach Armada and charging that baseball still turns a blind eye to steroids. (He sure got a lot right in Juiced.) He was also set to host an All-Star bash in Pittsburgh--with a bikini team. The Armada gave out Canseco photos to fans, and get this: He even got a hit!

Who's Not

Jose Guillen
Last July, despite injuries, he was delivering clutch hits for first-place Washington en route to a .283, 24-homer season. This year, hobbled by injury, he's hitting .211 and stranding runners for the last-place Nats. Guillen to The Washington Post: "I'm just horse [manure] right now."

Penalty Kicks
After 120 minutes of gorgeous play (page 48), and then that head-butting drama, the World Cup final (for only the second time) came down to a silly shootout. Ditto for two quarter-final matches. Would you settle a bullfight with a game of pin the tail on the donkey?

Detroit Icons
Their ranks are thinning: After 22 seasons the Captain, Steve Yzerman, bid farewell to the Red Wings. (He wept.) And after six seasons as a mean mutha-Piston, Ben Wallace bolted for some Chicago green.

Eddie Griffin
As if a career-low 4.6-point average weren't embarrassing enough, the T-Wolves big man is fending off a suit stemming from a March car accident. The suit is reportedly supported by a surveillance video that shows Griffin saying he's drunk, and it claims he was engrossed in an adult movie as he drove.