Fantastic 4 Watching his play and his life for 17 years, we just didn't see Brett Favre in that number 4 jersey. We saw our uncle, our brother-in-law or our fishing buddy. No, Brett wasn't the...

Leatherheads, George Clooney's film about the early NFL, was born at SI

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Won By Floyd Mayweather (above), his World Wrestling Entertainment debut. The undefeated WBC welterweight champ KO'd Big Show, a 7-foot, 440-pound wrestler, in front of nearly 75,000 people at the...

JOHN CALIPARI Memphis coach, on whether freshman guard Derrick Rose will leave for the NBA: "If he wants to do what's right for him and his family, he'll go pro. If he wants to do what's right for...

Tony Stewart raised $125,000 for charity by having his back waxed on his Sirius radio show.

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12 Finishing position of Oriol Servia in the season-opening, 25-car IRL Gainsco Indy 300 in Miami; Servia was the highest finisher of the three Champ Car drivers who merged into IRL a month ago.

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Romero Cotton HUTCHINSON, KANS. > Football and Wrestling Romero, a senior at Hutchinson High, is the first to win four Kansas titles in both football and wrestling. A fullback, he ran for 2,686...

SINCE SOFTBALL became an Olympic sport in 1996, the three gold medal games have had two things in common: The U.S. was victorious, and Lisa Fernandez was on the mound. But when the 15-player U.S....

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A quartet of powerhouse teams, each with a uniquely skilled star, is set for a showdown in San Antonio in the strongest Final Four ever

SI asked assistant coaches who had prepared a game plan against one of this year's Final Four teams to share their insights and observations about its offense and defense. They were all guaranteed...

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Finally getting past the Elite Eight, offensive power Stanford shoots for its first title in 16 years

New league, new coast, New York reminders everywhere for new Dodgers manager Joe Torre, ranging from a historic exhibition against—who else?—the Red Sox to a young nucleus that recalls the early...

Can the following players sustain their extreme March performances? (Barry Zito sure hopes not)

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David Beckham gets the hype, but MLS's most valuable import may be Cuauhtémoc Blanco of Mexico, the fiery forward who's leading a new wave of attacking talent from south of the border

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MLS opens a pipeline to the hemisphere's soccer hotbeds

While David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy got the ink last year, their Home Depot Center cotenants quietly turned into contenders. This year forward Maykel Galindo (left) and an even stronger...

Overcoming segregation and bigotry, he opened the fairways for black golfers at Augusta. But 33 years later, even with the rise of Tiger Woods, racial tension can still rattle the game

TRAIL BLAZER Relive Lee Elder's qualification for the '75 Masters, plus other classic golf stories.

For Tiger Woods, golf is all about the major championships. Winning them, he says, makes people remember you. This year Woods has upped the ante. Besides pursuing his long-stated goal of...

Once established as dominant players on the Tour, Nicklaus and Woods tailored their schedules to target the majors. Tiger has accelerated the pace set by Jack.

Winner of 13 majors overall, Woods, 32, has won 11 of them in the last eight years, putting him on a pace of roughly three titles every two years. At that rate, here's his projected...

In 13 trips to the Masters, Tiger has birdied every hole at Augusta National at least once and has eagled a few too. Here's what his scorecard would look like if he counted his best score on each...

The son of two of America's most decorated riders, 17-year-old Taylor Phinney has emerged as the next great U.S. prospect—and a source of inspiration to his father, who is battling Parkinson's

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The NHL The Flames and the Rangers lurk as dangerous playoff foes for some conference heavyweights • Bad break for a good Canuck • Ottawa's Commodore has been no help at all

Fair Warning With playoff slots shifting daily, the Flames and the Rangers lurk as teams that no top contender wants to face

Canucks center Brendan Morrison hadn't missed a game in six years before a wrist injury sidelined him for three months this season. Then he tore his right ACL against Colorado last week, ending...

Bird's Land The Pacers are now the responsibility of Larry Bird alone. But is raising Indiana too tall an order for him?

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Catching Up

Seconds after Denny Hamlin (right) cruised across the finish line in his number 11 Toyota Camry to win Sunday's Goody's Cool Orange 500 at Martinsville Speedway, he yelled into his radio,...

Big D-cisions

1 Teams hoping to draft Louisville's Brian Brohm early in the second round should rethink their plans. Two teams with late first-round picks want to make Brohm (right) the second QB taken, after...

Out of Leftfield To celebrate the 50th anniversary of their move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, the Dodgers (page 40) played an exhibition game last Saturday at the Coliseum, their home the first...

AMERICAN SPORTS fans adore stats, the more the better. We revel in points per game and games per home run and home runs per home stand. Stats provide context; they empower us. You tell me Kobe is...