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TABLE OF CONTENTS
January 28, 2008 | Volume 108, Issue 3
January 28, 2008 Elf You At least the New England Patriots finished the regular season undefeated. I heard that Santa didn't have as much luck. Two of his reindeer came up lame on Christmas Eve, his sled got lost...
His chess mastery is but one element of Bobby Fischer's curious legacy
January 28, 2008 WHO'S Hot
January 28, 2008 Which head coach would you most like to play for?
January 28, 2008 Won By the U.S. Women's Soccer Team, the Four Nations Cup, its first tournament since last summer's World Cup. The U.S. won all three of its games as goalkeeper Hope Solo (below), who was banished...
January 28, 2008 WHEN HE signed on to be baseball's interim commissioner in September 1992, Bud Selig assured his wife, Sue, that he'd keep the job for only a few months. Eleven years later, having long since lost...
January 28, 2008 10 Three-point shots made without a miss by George Mason guard Dre Smith in a win over James Madison last Saturday, an NCAA record.
January 28, 2008 A Wisconsin man faced abuse charges for allegedly duct-taping a Packers jersey to his seven-year-old son after the boy refused to wear it during a Green Bay playoff game.
January 28, 2008 FELIX TRINIDAD Thirty-five-year-old boxer, after hitting the canvas twice in a unanimous-decision loss to Roy Jones Jr. last Saturday: "If I could have avoided the knockdowns, I think I could have...
At West Virginia, folks won't forgive or forget Rich Rodriguez
FOR BELEAGUERED Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, the insults just keep coming. Madison Square Garden fans chant for his dismissal, vendors hawk T-shirts demanding his head—and last week the prospect of...
"THERE'S STRONG," as the ads say, "and then there's Army strong." So it's not surprising that Army sergeant Christopher Lavezza is one of the best horse-pickers in the world. While stationed in...
ALPINE SKIER
A Super Bowl ad tells an improbable tale
BILL BELICHICK can relax. The film Patriots, which will begin production in April, has nothing to do with his team. It's about Marrero, La., basketball coach Al Collins and the John Ehret High...
January 28, 2008 | Sarah Kwak What to watch and watch for
January 28, 2008 POWERED BY TAKKLE
January 28, 2008 | Pablo S. Torre SI, JUNE 26, 2006 Already disbarred for misconduct in the investigation of an alleged sexual assault involving the Duke lacrosse team, former North Carolina prosecutor Mike Nifong (below) now...
Driving toward their common goal with an uncommon selflessness, the Patriots beat the Chargers to stand a victory away from the perfect NFL season
In a stone-cold playoff classic, fortune again favored the Giants, who prevailed over Green Bay for their third straight January road win. Next up: a karmic clash with New England in Super Bowl XLII
Football Fever
Forget X's and O's, schemes and strategies—not to mention all logic. When New York meets New England in the Arizona desert on Feb. 3, Big Blue will show its championship colors
In what amounted to an American Idol for dunkers and dribblers, 141 players took their best shots last week in Boise at earning an NBA contract
Inside Game
Well, almost. With a game devoid of weakness, Nicklas Lidstrom led the Detroit Red Wings to unprecedented first-half success. Will victories come that easily in the postseason?
Star Tracking
To the front-runners go the spoils: This savvy lineup is a three-Wing circus
Thanks to a late-blossoming Lightning center, the starting six is missing a certain Sidney
Sudden production, sudden improvement and a sudden commitment—in three unlikely places
A pair of Australians, A.J. Ogilvy of Vanderbilt and Patty Mills of St. Mary's (which suits up four Aussies), lifted conference also-rans into contenders
Down Under Wonders
Australian transplant Hanna Zavecz has led Wyoming into the top 20 and given her teammates an appetite for winning
And they're off, hundreds of pigeons, in a race across the desert, back to captivity. With pride and big money riding on the result, it's a tale of beer and homing in Las Vegas
Nearly 160 racing teams congregate at the Classic to root for—and bet on—their pigeons. But racers don't name their birds, in case one day they don't make it home.
January 28, 2008 College Basketball Freshman point guard Chris Warren has Ole Miss off to its best start in 82 years • North Carolina's biggest weakness: defense • Keep an eye on Kansas State's Bill Walker
Like Ole Times Mississippi, paced by unheralded freshman point guard Chris Warren, is off to its best start in 82 years
1 North Carolina's defense could be its downfall. The Tar Heels, who let Maryland shoot 46.9% from the field last Saturday, are ranked ninth in the ACC in field goal defense.
Age Is Served Veterans dominated the first week of the Australian Open, proving that teen phenoms are no longer all the rage
Even as he cracked the ATP's top 40 this year, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was known mostly for his remarkable likeness to the young Muhammad Ali. So remarkable that other players would joke, "What's up,...
A Bumpy Ride High-flying Hawks forward Josh Smith has seen his game take off, but his reputation may clip him in free agency
On the recent success of Bobcats small forward Gerald Wallace (who through Sunday was averaging 25.3 points in January) and guard Jason Richardson (24.6):
WITNESS THE American man. Once we slew mastodons with sticks, sailed fearsome oceans on a flat earth, crossed continents alone and rocketed to the moon.
January 28, 2008 Flying Low Running back Laurence Maroney powered the Patriots to their fourth Super Bowl in seven years, lunging over Chargers safety Clinton Hart for extra yardage on Sunday in Foxborough, Mass....
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