Double Whammy By putting both the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears on your cover in the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, were you trying to negate the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover jinx?...

ERNIE BANKS made the big leagues at 22, played 19 seasons for one team, hung up his spikes at 40 and said, "I've never worked a day in my life." Which is precisely how I feel now, at 40, writing...

Duke's shattered lacrosse team is back and ready to chase an NCAA title. But can anything help the players and the community find peace?

Suffered By U.S. skier Lindsey Kildow, a partially torn ACL and a bruised bone in her right knee. Two weeks ago at the World Ski Championships in Are, Sweden, Kildow (above) won silver medals in...

Thanks to fantasy camp, Gus Gussack has picked up the career he left before WW II

1,284 NBA games Phil Jackson has coached in his 16-year career.

Tom Brady testifies in Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis's medical malpractice suit

The most decorated figure skater in U.S. history was recently appointed the first American Public Diplomacy Envoy

THE DUI arrest of Yankees general partner Steve Swindal (left) in Tampa last Thursday (he has a March 15 court date) wasn't just an embarrassment. It put the Bombers into the top 10 of SI's Legal...

THE BASIC premise of Jim Carrey's new movie, The Number 23, is that the number 23 is unlucky. That might be a hard sell in Chicago, where much of the citizenry still walks around in Michael Jordan...

In a 2001 humor column, outsports.com named Tim Hardaway one of its "Ten Most Likely Gay Ballers in the NBA."

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Julie Leach BEAVER DAM, KY. > Basketball Leach, a sophomore center at Transylvania, leads the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference with an average of 18.3 points and 11.4 rebounds. She has...

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Tatyana McFadden is fighting to compete for her school against able-bodied runners

Early standouts from the winter championship season

Hearts broke when Eric Gordon chose Indiana

The end of Dodgertown may be near, but there are no signs of gloom in a clubhouse where the players have new reasons to dream big. They weren't alone. With the opening of camp, all but a handful...

Legends Field welcomed its next pinstriped legend-in-the-making, flamethrowing Phil Hughes

The Cubs have issues, but they're making new skipper Lou Piniella one happy camper

Adam Wainwright made his name as a closer, but he has the look of a future ace

Restoring some NASCAR pride after a controversial week at Daytona, Kevin Harvick channeled the Big E in using a last-lap charge to dodge disaster and edge Mark Martin in the Great American Race

Arrested 15 times by age 15, All-Star forward Caron Butler straightened out his life with the help of a tough-love coach and his burning desire to redeem himself

Trade Winds

North Carolina coach Roy Williams revved up Dean Smith's classic secondary break to create the college game's most relentless-- and riveting--attack

Well Heeled

THE 15TH ASIAN GAMES LIFTED THE VEIL ON THE MADNESS OF THE HUMAN PAGEANT: THOUSANDS OF ATHLETES FROM SCORES OF COUNTRIES IN HUNDREDS OF EVENTS IN DOZENS OF SPORTS BEAMED OUT TO A BILLION AND A...

Asian Games

Checkered Pass A last-second surge of horsepower put Kevin Harvick's number 29 Chevy just ahead of Mark Martin's racer and into Victory Lane as the winner of the Daytona 500 (page 46) on Sunday at...

The NHL Rental players who return to their former teams tarnish the Cup • Winger Gary Roberts is the most coveted player on the trade market

Rent Control

30% of the 23 NHL general managers who were polled chose Avalanche center Joe Sakic as the league's best clutch player (excluding goalies)—"a money player," says one G.M. Peter Forsberg tied for...

One of the most sought-after players on the trading block is 40-year-old Panthers winger Gary Roberts, a Stanley Cup winner and proven leader. Detroit and Ottawa would especially benefit from...

On the Ball

1 Winthrop deserves an at-large bid even if it doesn't win the Big South tourney. After beating Missouri State 77--66 last Friday behind seven three-pointers from Michael Jenkins (right), the...

GOD: O.K., catch me up. I've been swamped with this thing on Zolar-147. How'd the NBA All-Star Game go?

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Taking advantage of some unsightly gaffes by Phil Mickelson, Charles Howell finally made his mark by winning the Nissan Open