Walking Tall

Desmond Howard (below, in 1991 and today) was misidentified in a LEADING OFF photo of 16 Heisman winners in the July 16 issue. Also, the last names of Johnny Rodgers and George Rogers were...

IF THE PHILLIES are going to make a run at the postseason—they were five games back in the NL East through Sunday—they'll likely be led by All-Star lefty Cole Hamels, he of the slugger-freezing...

WHO'S Hot

Who is the best owner in baseball?

An open letter to a network going places no one has gone before, thank goodness

AT HIS FIRST All-Star game, Los Angeles catcher Russell Martin sent every Dodgers employee an e-mail that read, "I'm here in San Francisco and wanted to take a minute to thank all of you for...

ROYALS MANAGER Buddy Bell enjoyed a heated argument with ump Chad Fairchild after the top of the seventh of Sunday's loss in Cleveland ... until God Bless America began playing on the P.A. The men...

Applied To buy the Cubs, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Potential buyers must submit an application to Major League Baseball before they can examine the team's finances; Cuban said he put his...

IT DIDN'T TAKE long for Shag Crawford, who died last week at age 90, to impress baseball observers as a hustling, authoritative umpire. In September 1956, near the end of his first year on the...

BILL BAVASI Mariners' G.M., after Marlins president David Samson criticized the $90 million extension Seattle gave Ichiro Suzuki: "My mother always taught me that if the only thing you have to say...

5 Times Se Ri Pak has won the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic, tying the LPGA record for most wins at one event.

Researchers at UCLA spent four years on a study that concluded that women prefer muscular men to flabby ones.

A Rookie for the Ages Astros centerfielder Hunter Pence leads all rookies who qualify for the batting title in average, slugging, doubles and triples, but it's not just among his contemporaries...

True tales of the similarly named

Domonique Foxworth/Broncos DB

The NFL's first family shoots a new commercial

An ex-Yankee still creates drama in the Bronx

Anna Kournikova's boyfriend has a new album, Insomniac

THE DOCUMENTARY Impossible to Forget—about Carl Yastrzemski (right) and the 1967 Red Sox, who resurrected baseball in Boston—is an entertaining enough video, and Sox fans should enjoy it. But what...

CERTAIN ATHLETES just don't seem all there with a clean upper lip. The biggest story at the 1999 Brickyard 400 was Dale Earnhardt, who showed up without his mustache, which he had shaved because...

What to watch and watch for

Matt Allare MAINEVILLE, OHIO > Tennis Matt, a graduate of Kings High, is the National High School Coaches Association player of the year. He won state singles titles as a junior and a senior, and...

Toledo Point Shaving

Henry Aaron is about to be displaced from his spot atop the alltime home run list, but 755 will endure as one of baseball's magical numbers, a lasting monument to an underappreciated star and to...

Going Deep

An anthology of Henry Aaron stories from the pages of SI is on sale exclusively at Borders.

The quarterback with the golden arm and the Entourage-like band of buddies owns the spotlight. Now Matt Leinart has to lead the long-suffering Cardinals out of the darkness

Bring on the Weekend Get an exclusive NFL column from Michael Silver every Thursday. ONLY AT SI.COM

After an injury-plagued 2006 WNBA season, Lauren Jackson traveled the world playing and falling in love with the game again. Now she's having the best year of her career

It's after midnight on the East Coast: Do you know where baseball's best closer is? J.J. Putz is in Seattle, saving games with near-historic efficiency

A teen without much of a home even before the killer storm struck New Orleans, Joe McKnight escaped the devastation to find a second family, greater high school glory and renewed hope of playing...

Olympic Sports Rio uses Pan Ams to make its pitch for the 2016 Games • Mom of three comes off back surgery to earn bronze medal

Showing Off

Few Pan Am medalists were as grateful for their prize as U.S. weightlifter Melanie Roach (right), who won a bronze in the 53-kg class on Sunday. She hoisted 182 kg in the two lifts combined,...

Here, Yi

On Grant Hill's signing a two-year, $3.8 million free-agent deal with the Suns:

Wanted Man

1 On Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway, Tony Stewart (right) ended a 20-race winless streak by taking the checkered flag in the USG Sheetrock 400. Stewart, a two-time Cup champ with a history of...

Bargain Deals

Mark Cuban is a viable candidate to buy the Cubs, but John Canning, the head of a private-equity firm in Chicago and a Brewers limited partner, is probably the early favorite.... So far the White...

Circuit Breaker

Based on verbal commitments, these schools have the best '08 recruiting classes lined up.

NEVER SEEN anything like this Fake Break, this Barry Bonds home run record hype. It's like a man robbing a bank and then having a giant party to watch him count the money.

Kilt Bill During a competition at the 52nd Grandfather Mountain Highland Games last Friday, Bill Gray of Coolidge, Ga., heaved the 22-pound Scottish hammer. The four-day festival in Linville,...

Who: Tim Clark

Will Phil Mickelson's second at the Scottish Open help or hurt him at Carnoustie?

MY SHOT King Rut

Precocious Philip Francis Is Right on Schedule

It's Time for Sergio to Deliver page G12

Phil's wrist is Open-ready

Hoist your own claret jug at this English countryside club

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