Where's Barry? What a sad commentary on the state of baseball when the cover of the SI preview issue (March 26) ignores the near certainty that Hank Aaron's career home run record will be broken...

NO PLAYER personifies American soccer better than Claudio Reyna, a son of Springfield, N.J., who wore the captain's armband for the U.S. at the last two World Cups. But ironically, until last...

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Which team will win the Stanley Cup?

There will never be another AD like Arkansas's embattled Frank Broyles

AFTER HITTING her drive on the 100-yard 4th hole at Bidwell Park in Chico, Calif., Elsie McLean asked, "Where's my ball?" It was in the cup, making the 102-year-old the oldest person to make a...

OKLAHOMA LINEMAN J.D. Quinn, who was tossed off the team for accepting money for work he didn't complete, pointed out that things could have been worse: "All I did was take cash. There's people on...

DARRYL STINGLEY was lying in a Chicago hospital one afternoon in 1978 when a doctor led a group of people into his room. A few weeks earlier, during an exhibition game against the Raiders, the...

Announced That he will remain at Florida, basketball coach Billy Donovan, three days after the Gators won their second straight national championship. Donovan was rumored to be considering the...

TODD JONES, Tigers reliever, on receiving his 2006 AL championship ring: "When I go to eat with my wife, it'll be dinner for three. I'm going to name it and give it its own plate."

3 Walk-off grand slams the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez has hit in his career, tying Cy Williams (who played from 1912 to '30) and Vern Stephens (1941--55) for the most in major league history.

An incarcerated Thai drug dealer won the women's WBC light flyweight title in a fight at a Bangkok prison.

IT'S ALWAYS a surprise to find that our biggest agents of change are actually such examples of constancy. Eddie Robinson, who died last week at age 88, was of a regularity that is not much...

With their stars returning, Coach Summitt's Lady Vols should repeat as national champs

... the safe, efficient way to give money to owners and players

A reliever's body is his bio

THE FOLKS at PBS may not return their calls, but Eddie October and Al Berman, the producers who gave us Tommy Lee Goes to College, think they have a sure TV winner with the Pillow Fight League, a...

Jackie Robinson's temper emerges in a new bio

The American Idol champ is a NASCAR spokesperson

FEW THINGS are cooler than bowling trick shots. O.K. Pretty much everything is cooler than bowling trick shots—except when Norm Duke does them. YouTube's "Awesome Bowling Trick Shot" features...

IF YOU read just one hypothetical tell-all by an accused killer this year ... find something better than If I Did It. Still, you may have a chance to see O.J. Simpson's scribblings. In an auction...

What to watch and watch for

Corey Crispell HORSHAM, PA. > Baseball Corey, a senior righthanded pitcher at Hatboro-Horsham, pitched a complete-game, nine-inning shutout against William Tennent, striking out 22...

Teen surfing champion Courtney Conlogue doesn't practice on school days

STATE DENIAL

A coach's fireballing son is the nation's top draft prospect

MATT HARVEY'S chief competition to be the top high school player taken in baseball's amateur draft is someone he has much in common with: righthander Rick Porcello (right) of Seton Hall Prep (West...

Overcoming brutal course conditions, harsh weather and the game's preeminent player, Zach Johnson emerged as the unlikely winner of the Masters with a magnificent final round

Above Par

A perfectionist, a prankster and the best pitcher in the AL not named Johan Santana: That's Roy Halladay, whose recent success makes it easy to forget how far he once fell

No longer a novelty, Yao Ming has arrived as the first dominating supersized player in NBA history--picking up a driver's license, some U2 CDs and a dry sense of humor along the way

Fab Five

Behind the sparkling play and moxie of diminutive goaltender Jeff Lerg, Michigan State capped an unlikely tournament run with a comeback victory over Boston College for its third title

Two decades after his immortal Little League victory, CHRIS DRURY has become one of sports' greatest clutch players. Can he deliver a title to the losingest city in sports?

Snow Game Today Indians righty Paul Byrd started the home opener at Jacobs Field last Friday, but the game against the Mariners was called in the top of the fifth. The entire four-game series with...

Baseball The Twins make an insufficient pitch to extend Johan Santana • The scouting report on rookie Elijah Dukes • Killing the buzz about Ichiro joining the Red Sox

Here Today ...

There has been talk about Ichiro (right) going to Boston next season as a free agent, but a league source says that his name never came up in trade talks between the Mariners and the Red Sox this...

Who Knew?

Only a year ago Andy Roddick joked that one benefit of anchoring the U.S. Davis Cup team was the right to haze Sam Querrey (right), the squad's new hitting partner. A pledge no more, the 6'6"...

Future Stock

1 The Busch Series points race is as good as over. After seven of 35 races this season, Carl Edwards (right) owns a 321-point lead over Dave Blaney in the standings. Edwards took the checkered...

All Bizness

The final two major Kentucky Derby prep races—the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park—will be run this Saturday. Here are the top contenders in each.

LIFE PROMISES you a few things. Cary Grant's fly won't ever be unzipped. Dobermans won't ever go vegetarian. And Tiger Woods won't ever cough up the lead on a major Sunday.

Phil Mickelson, the defending champion, failed to contend at Augusta, but only a fool would write off a guy with his talent and resilience

For only the fourth time in 16 years, John Daly failed to qualify for the Masters, but he didn't let that bump in the road keep him from his people during tournament week in Augusta

The author first played in the Masters in 1996. When he finally returned to Augusta, many things seemed the same, including his score

Twenty miles from bruising Augusta National, timeless Palmetto Golf Club stands as a genteel alternative version of what a great golf course should be

The winners and losers from last week's melee at the Masters

WHO: Zach Johnson

Is it possible that after 10 years on top, Tiger is a disappointment?

At the start of the week, unassuming Vaughn Taylor was ranked No. 2 on the list of Augustans most likely to win the Masters. By Sunday he had established himself as a bona fide contender as well...

Meet a man who chucked it all to cross the Atlantic on a jerry-built raft