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TABLE OF CONTENTS
April 24, 2006 | Volume 104, Issue 17
April 24, 2006 Good Clean Fun
April 24, 2006 While I am as pleased as anyone about George Mason's Final Four run (11th Heaven, April 3), I am dismayed that you have discounted the accomplishment of the 1979 Pennsylvania Quakers. Ninth-seeded...
April 24, 2006 LETTERS • E-mail us at letters@SI.timeinc.com or fax us at 212-467-2417. Letters should include the writer's full name, address and home telephone number and may be edited for clarity and space....
As a child,
Lawrence Frank says, "I was like a bad Hollywood actor. I kept hearing,
'Cut! Cut! Cut!'" He was cut from so many basketball teams that he decided,
at age 12, to concentrate on...
April 24, 2006
How much of a soap
opera are the Knicks? Let's just say coach Larry Brown started as The Guiding
Light and ended up in General Hospital
Former
commissioner Fay Vincent tells why Bud Selig has few options in the matter of
Barry Bonds
April 24, 2006 Set
By Kenya's Robert Cheruiyot, a new Boston Marathon course record. Cheruiyot
(above) crossed the finish line in 2:07:14, one second faster than his
countryman Cosmas Ndeti ran the race in 1994....
April 24, 2006 2
NHL rookies--Teemu Selanne in 1992-93 and Washington's Alexander Ovechkin this
season--to have at least 50 goals and 50 assists.
The Heisman Trophy--winning running back from USC is expected to go first in the NFL draft on April 29
Brett Favre is
still sittin' on the dock of the bay
April 24, 2006 How many times
have we seen it? Child TV star outgrows role and embarks upon a life of
dangerous behavior. So it wasn't surprising when earlier this month Frankie
Muniz announced he's going to...
April 24, 2006 An inflatable Gumby is nice, but the team of Daryl
Boyington (center), Toby Day (left) and Larry Doucette (right) picked the wrong
claymation figure for their entry in the 40th annual Kenduskeag...
April 24, 2006 A seven-year-old boy had to be taken to the hospital
after he was trampled at a minor league baseball promotion in which $1,000 was
dropped from a helicopter.
April 24, 2006 GRADY LITTLE, Dodgers manager, on what he told
pitching coach Rick Honeycutt after Derek Lowe gave up a three-run homer on the
first pitch following a visit from the coach:
What to watch and
watch for
April 24, 2006 Kineke
Alexander
WIZARDS GUARD
Who's Hot
Travis Hafner
Indians slugger's hitting .356 and crushing homers (seven). Sweeter, still:
He's got his own candy bar, a crispy chocolate thang called Pronk (Hafner's
nickname;...
Who's the NHL's best coach?
He's no point guard, but Mavs swingman Jerry Stackhouse is known for his dishes
Preparation time: 45 minutes
Astros Infielder
While New York fans debate whether Met Billy Wagner or Yankee Mariano Rivera has dibs on Metallica's Enter Sandman, other relievers talk about the tunes that get them pumped
He's the
Cavaliers' leader and an MVP candidate-and deep down, at 21, still a kid.
LeBron James charges into the second phase of his unparalleled career with his
playoff debut this weekend
NBA scouts break down each first-round matchup at
SI.com/nba.
Surrounded by fellow Czechs and doted on by his coach, an invigorated Jaromir Jagr is the key to the postseason for the league's bellwether team
April 24, 2006 | YI-WYN YEN Jaromir Jagr isn't the only star who has kept his team in the playoff picture. Here are five other leading men who have lifted their squads into the postseason and whose performances could make or...
SI's Pierre McGuire says team speed and the efforts of underrated players could be the decisive factors
The fate of some Stanley Cup hopefuls, McGuire says, will hinge on whether top players can overcome injuries
After a
tumultuous couple of years, Colorado hired a happy warrior, Dan Hawkins, who
favors offensive pyrotechnics, a splash of Zen and player contests, such as
belly sliding in the snow
For more spring football coverage, including reports
from Ohio State and Louisville and an early Heisman watch, go to
SI.com/collegefootball.
Some of the
intriguing storylines coming out of April involve rehabbing stars and a few old
hands in different positions
Operation Gear
Grinder shut down a flourishing drug business in a BALCO-scale investigation of
major steroid trafficking
During Operation Gear Grinder, the DEA identified more
than 2,000 people in the U.S. who had done business with the eight targeted
Mexican steroid companies. Florida had the most steroid...
April 24, 2006 Baseball
Mets find that two Carloses are better than one • A healthy Thome rediscovers
his stroke • Braves starters struggle
Carlos Factor
The bond between Beltran and Delgado has brought out the best in each player
and powered the Mets' smashing start
April 24, 2006 Playoff Prep
FALSE START FOR
BRAVES ROTATION
Old School
Dedication and hard work, the hallmarks of his dad's NFL career, have turned
Bobby Carpenter into a likely first-rounder
A Strong
Case
Powerful colt Lawyer Ron served notice that he's a Kentucky Derby favorite with
a convincing victory in Arkansas
Okay, right off the
bat, let me be clear: Ozzie Guillen, the manager of the Chicago White Sox, is
my favorite person in baseball. He's hilarious. He's the best skipper in the
game. He had only an...
Hurricane Katrina--ravaged New Orleans will celebrate the return of the PGA Tour next week, but the city will need much more time to overcome the obstacles to resuscitating its golf industry and...
Lorena Ochoa hits the jackpot, finally
What's one of the most popular products on Tour that
the pros are not paid to use? The Seaforth rain cover. At the Players
Championship 87% of the pros carried a Seaforth cover. The cover and...
Will Tiger's slip of the tongue be used against him in September?
April 24, 2006 WHO: Aaron
Baddeley
At Hilton Head, while others decompressed from the Masters, Aaron Baddeley showed his colors
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