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TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 25, 2007 | Volume 106, Issue 26
June 25, 2007 Second to One I wouldn't put Tim Duncan (All About Winning, June 4) ahead of Michael Jordan. But if I were building a team around one other player from the last 30 years, I'd take the San Antonio...
RANKED NO. 31 in the world—23 places behind her younger sister Serena—Venus Williams is years removed from tennis dominance. But if she's no longer on top (as she was for 11 weeks in 2002), she...
June 25, 2007 WHO'S Hot
June 25, 2007 Who is the hardest-throwing pitcher in baseball?
A new kind of coverage puts sports honchos and the press at bloggerheads
THE SONS OF BEN (as in Franklin), a group of MLS fans in Philadelphia, have all the accessories: a website, embroidered scarves and outings to games. But they have no team. The group formed in...
TALK ABOUT old school. Twins owner Carl Pohlad—that's 91-year-old, extremely Caucasian Carl Pohlad—plunked down $28 million to buy B-96, a hip-hop radio station in Edina, Minn. Is rap really how...
Sudden Departure
ICHIRO SUZUKI Mariners outfielder, on Seattle's trip to face the Indians: "I'm not excited to go to Cleveland, but we have to. If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch...
43 Consecutive games in which Columbus Clippers outfielder Brandon Watson had a hit through Sunday, breaking the International League hitting streak record set by Jack Lelivelt in 1912.
Redskins rookie LaRon Landry missed practice last week after being shot in the groin during a team paintball outing.
New retiree Bob Barker showcases his competitive instincts
Tired of basketball above the rim, a former NBA assistant coach kicks things up a notch
Former major league pitcher Rick Ankiel, 27, is trying to make it back to the Cardinals as an outfielder. How's he doing? SI's Ankielometer tells all.
June 25, 2007 | Joe Carberry All-Star offspring: Every goat has a kid
June 25, 2007 GIANTS PITCHER
For these Oakland teammates it's always open house
June 25, 2007 | Sarah Kwak What to watch and watch for
June 25, 2007 Kyle Russell TOMBALL, TEXAS > Baseball Russell, a sophomore at Texas, was named Big 12 player of the year. The rightfielder led the nation in home runs (28) and ranked seventh in slugging (.807)....
The John from Cincinnati star is one versatile pretend athlete
SIX YEARS after Gladiator won the Oscar for Best Picture, the film gets another honor: LeBron James has named his son Bryce Maximus—the middle name inspired by Russell Crowe's character in that...
AUTHOR AND FORMER New York Times sports columnist
Robert Lipsyte calls Dave Zirin "the best young sportswriter in
America," but readers don't turn to Zirin's columns in Slam magazine and...
Their style of
play may not be captivating, but with four titles in the last nine years the
Spurs have come up with a blueprint for success that's the envy of professional
sports
Clutch Shots
No Oden. No Durant. But Hawks G.M. Billy Knight still has to find a player good enough to turn around his team's fortunes
Unheralded Angel
Cabrera won the U.S. Open with a rock-solid final round, but only after Tiger
Woods made some puzzling miscues and let a second straight major slip away
Coming Up Aces
While age and a
dip in velocity conspire against the newest, oldest Yankee, Roger Clemens
remains as hardheaded as ever
On the Rise
As Wimbledon approaches, Scotland's rapidly improving Andy Murray, like Tim Henman before him, bears the hopes of an entire tennis-mad kingdom on his slight shoulders
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On top of his game and happily married again, could life be any better for Jason Taylor? Of course it could. The outspoken Dolphins defensive end with leading-man good looks continues his pursuit...
June 25, 2007 High Hard One Padres 6' 10" righthander Chris Young took a swing at Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee during a bench-clearing skirmish in the fourth inning of last Saturday's game at Wrigley Field. It...
June 25, 2007 Motor Sports Martin Truex Jr.: No. 1 with a bullet at DEI • The Lewis Hamilton Express roars on at the Brickyard
Heir Apparent Though Little E is departing, DEI has revved things up and another Junior—Martin Truex—has come into his own
On Sunday, for the second straight week, 22-year-old British driver Lewis Hamilton (SI, June 18) made history on the Formula One circuit. Though he had never before raced on the Indianapolis Motor...
Starting Five Building a team from scratch? A panel of experts sees the future and lays the foundation with a core of young stars
I HAVE ONLY one thing in common with Phil Mickelson. The golf gods hate us.
Jim Furyk's late charge had his home state buzzing, but for the second consecutive year his quest for the title came up a shot short
Charl Schwartzel, a star in the making, is drawing comparisons with another sweet-swinging South African
June 25, 2007 Everyone in Pittsburgh, from the ballpark to the ER, kept an eye on Oakmont and the Open
Ask Aaron Baddeley what he scored at Oakmont, and he'll tell you 100%
Bubba Watson and Boo Weekley, a couple of small-town guys from Florida, made a huge impression at Oakmont
Winners, losers and dueling lefties from Oakmont
WHO: Angel
Cabrera
"Tiger Woods looked eerily passive and calm at
Oakmont. He seemed to care, but his reactions were infinitely more restrained
than usual."
Will Tiger Woods win a major this year?
June 25, 2007 | BRUCE BERLET • MY SHOT
Most folks thought Oakmont was too tough, but a mysterious club member claimed there was a conspiracy to make it a cream puff
June 25, 2007 The eternal Charlie Hustle reflects on his career issues
A rap mogul helps a hoops event grow
Comerica Park's Seagulls
DO YOU HAVE what it takes to be a topflight powerlifter? You could spend thousands of hours in the gym to find out. Or you could send a saliva sample and $92.40 to an Australian lab. For that...
June 25, 2007 Throwing Willie and Waylon's advice to the wind, some mamas do let their babies grow up to be cowboys (and cowgirls). The best competed at the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo., last...
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