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TABLE OF CONTENTS
April 30, 2007 | Volume 106, Issue 18
April 30, 2007 The No. 1 State
AT 45 CHRIS CHELIOS is the oldest noncoach in the NHL, and he has played in more postseasons (22) and more postseason games (234 through Sunday) than anyone ever. Some other Cheliosian numbers: 11...
April 30, 2007 WHO'S Hot
April 30, 2007 Who will be the Rookie of the Year in your league this season?
The NBA commish picked the wrong time to crack down hard on a hothead referee
AS GIANTS star Michael Strahan and his ex-wife, Jean (left), continue to argue over alimony, she held a garage sale at her Montclair, N.J., mansion (among the items: a set of cassette tapes on...
WHICH COKER is better on the hill? Tough call. Last Friday evening Ashley (far left) of Kansas Wesleyan threw a no-hitter at a Salina, Kans., softball complex. At the same time, a few diamonds...
April 30, 2007 The Long Hall
April 30, 2007 JOE MADDON Devil Rays manager, after most of his players came down with a flulike bug: "We have to really go to the fist bump today as opposed to the traditional handshake because that's a more...
April 30, 2007 18 Seconds that Flames goalie Jamie McLennan played in Game 5 of Calgary's first-round series against Detroit.
April 30, 2007 Eight St. Louis police officers were suspended last week for using 2006 World Series tickets they had seized from scalpers.
Players stuck on the loneliest number
April 30, 2007 Don't blame the drop in home runs on the weather
April 30, 2007 Wearing the wrong hat to a Super Bowl function cost Bears linebacker Brian Uhrlacher $100,000
A new doc honors the Crispus Attucks Tigers
The MSNBC host is joining NBC's Football Night in America
IF IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery, Diego Maradona should be blushing. Against England in the 1986 World Cup, the Argentina midfielder took the ball in his own half of the pitch,...
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON isn't afraid of jinxes, but San Diego fans are, which is why many were relieved when EA Sports said that Titans QB Vince Young will be featured on the Madden 08 package. Former...
What to watch and watch for
April 30, 2007 Josie Earnest VANDALIA, ILL. > Bowling Earnest, a freshman at Vanderbilt, rolled two strikes in the final frame to lift the Commodores past Maryland--Eastern Shore for the first NCAA team...
Michael Burgess's soaring home runs have pros, and foes, taking notice
TWELVE PLAYERS from Hillsborough High have gone on to the majors, including:
A former gymnast flourishes in her new sport
April 30, 2007 38 K'S, BUT NOW Suzie Rzegocki, a Lemont (Ill.) senior, threw 38 strikeouts in a 20-inning softball game against Oak Forest (Ill.), tying a state record—but still came away with a loss. Rzegocki,...
COREY FISHER (St. Patrick's, Elizabeth, N.J.) threaded a pass to a cutting Derrick Rose (Simeon High, Chicago) for an easy two in the early moments of the Jordan Brand All-American Classic last...
Imagine the sales
pitch that might have been delivered in the long hallways of a Ministry of U.S.
Sports Culture not very long ago: O.K., how about this for a television event.
The commissioner of...
Do all those workouts, tests and interviews really make a difference? They have for Louisville defensive lineman Amobi Okoye, who in the past four months established himself as a solid first-round...
The top of the board is loaded with intrigue: Which passer goes where? Who takes a flier on a 19-year-old defensive tackle? Does Detroit dare select another wideout? Here's how SI expects the...
On the road to the NFL, Adrian Peterson has encountered more than his share of obstacles, from serious injury to family tragedy. No matter where he ends up playing, he'll be running for his...
So, too, is this April, but of a much happier kind for Alex Rodriguez, whose overhauled swing has reestablished him as baseball's most feared hitter
Todd Pletcher is the nation's hottest trainer, but full recognition won't come until one of his horses wins the Kentucky Derby. He plans to send five into the starting gate on May 5
How to fill out your Trifecta for the Kentucky
Derby
With his
progressive and creative baseball mind and his Veeckian flair for showmanship,
the controversial former Mets manager is a national hero--alas, halfway around
the globe
Fungoes
April 30, 2007 Inside the NBA In his playoff opener forward Luol Deng shows signs of becoming the Bulls' next star • Scout: Warriors have the firepower to take out Mavs
April 30, 2007 Four Gone
Yankees rookie Chase Wright (below) watched his 3--0 lead disappear in 10
pitches on Sunday night, when four Red Sox blasted consecutive third-inning
home runs at Fenway Park, powering...
Chicago's Hope
On the Warriors, who went 3--0 this season against Dallas and took Game 1 of their first-round series 97--85 on Sunday:
Staggered Start
1 Jeff Gordon tied Dale Earnhardt for sixth on the career wins list (with 76) by taking his first checkered flag of the season, at Phoenix (above). Gordon's key move was, fittingly, cribbed from...
Crown Jewel
Perhaps the most unheralded player through the first
round of the playoffs is Sabres forward Jochen Hecht. Playing with Daniel
Brière and Jason Pominville, Hecht (above) is the defensive anchor...
MAYBE YOU could use a happy story after what happened at Virginia Tech, and maybe I've got one.
April 30, 2007 After the wind finally came, a U.S. boat had a perfect start
He's done figure skating and stock car racing. For his next pic, Will Ferrell—with big hair and small shorts—tries basketball
April 30, 2007 METS FIRST BASEMAN
A once begoggled Laker revisits his images
April 30, 2007 PICTURE THIS Think Alabama fans are ready for the Nick Saban era to begin? Last Saturday's intrasquad game drew an overflow crowd of more than 92,000—what had to be the biggest ever for an NCAA...
April 30, 2007 Sizing up the Republican front-runners' big league credentials
Three years after his NBA career, competitive Todd MacCulloch has a soft touch at the table
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