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TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 09, 2008 | Volume 108, Issue 23
June 09, 2008 Cracker Barrel No wonder Braves third baseman Chipper Jones was hitting .405 at week's end: Despite splitting his bat on a pitch by the Brewers' Seth McClung, he dumped a first-inning single into...
June 09, 2008 Driven Woman
Big Brown's human connections complicate his Triple Crown fairy tale
June 09, 2008 WHO'S Hot
June 09, 2008 Who is your alltime favorite player?
June 09, 2008 Adopted By the NBA, a policy that will fine players for flopping. The league has yet to determine how much players who dive will be fined or whether there will be an escalating series of fines and...
June 09, 2008 BRENT BARRY Spurs guard, after the NBA admitted a foul should have been called on his last-second miss in Game 5 against L.A.:
June 09, 2008 A veteran sumo wrestler faces a 30% pay cut for attacking another wrestler with a soup ladle.
A coach's verdict could be good news for Bonds
40,000
Tickets sold in 90 minutes to the Chargers-Saints game at London's Wembley
Stadium on Oct. 26.
Jose Canseco
The WNBA's assist leader believes the dog days of summer will end with the Shock back in the finals
KOBE BRYANT's nickname is the Black Mamba, but he wanted nothing to do with any snakes while shooting a video promoting his new Nike shoe, the Hyperdunk. In the clip, which has been viewed over...
June 09, 2008 Reliving the best Mets games at unlovable Shea
June 09, 2008 | Sarah Kwak What to watch and watch for
June 09, 2008 POWERED BY
TAKKLE
The Interview
Pete Rose
BASEBALL EXILE
DAVID ORTIZ is upset. Major League Baseball will start
enforcing rules meant to speed up the game. He says that when he steps out of
the box, it's because he's thinking about what to do with the...
CONGRATS TO Kenxs Griffey Jr.—not just for nearing the
600 home run milestone, but for doing things right. My thought about Griffey is
the same one I have about Greg Maddux, who got his 350th win...
HE'S NOT a Laker any more, but there's no doubt about
whom Jerry West, the former player and G.M., will be rooting for in the NBA
Finals; his teams lost to the Celtics there seven times. "I still...
It's hard to believe that 21 years have passed since the Celtics and the Lakers last met in the NBA Finals—but easy to remember all their great games and bad blood
SPORTS IN REAL TIME. ALL THE TIME. ALL FREE.
The keys to Boston's league-best D: a new assistant, an older roster, a desire to change and lots of hustle
A rugged, no-frills league in the Last Frontier State has funneled almost 400 college players to the majors and kept fans in Fairbanks up late each June with its quirky Midnight Sun Game
The Midnight Sun Game is just the start of the fun;
flip open the gatefold on the next page for a dream baseball odyssey
June 09, 2008 | Pablo S. Torre If you prefer small ball—meaning affordable tickets and young players with a hunger for the game—SI has plotted a 71-day, 15,997-mile journey through the minor leagues. It'll be worth the price of...
By closing in on its fourth NHL title in 11 years Detroit proved it could win on a budget, while team captain Nicklas Lidstrom helped change perceptions on the limits of European players
SPORTS IN REAL TIME. ALL THE TIME. ALL FREE.
Like his famous brother-in-law, new Oregon State coach Craig Robinson is promising change, and his most winning quality may be how he differs from the men who preceded him
SPORTS IN REAL TIME. ALL THE TIME. ALL FREE.
In a race that jolted his sport, 21-year-old Usain Bolt of Jamaica smashed the world record for 100 meters and established himself as a threat to win multiple gold medals at the Beijing Olympics
SPORTS IN REAL TIME. ALL THE TIME. ALL FREE.
Off the golf course she may go unrecognized, but that's just fine with LORENA OCHOA. The world's most dominant female athlete never wanted to be anything more than No. 1 in her sport
June 09, 2008 Tennis After losing every singles match at the 2007 French Open, the U.S. men win a few in Week 1 this year • Dinara Safina, as erratic as her famous brother, breaks through to the quarterfinals
After last year's French Open flameout,
the U.S. men showed they might know a bit about playing on red clay after
all
Dinara Safina is blessed with the same athletic genes
as her older brother, Marat Safin. She has also been cursed with his
inexplicable tendency to play sensationally well and then sensationally...
Carlos Quentin was obtained for a Class
A player and nearly started the season in the minors; now he's raking
Since 1990 eight players have caught at least 145 games in a season: Jason Kendall (four times), Mike Piazza (twice), Brad Ausmus, Darren Daulton, Todd Hundley, Ivan Rodriguez, Benito Santiago and...
HEAR ABOUT the Afghan basketball renaissance?
June 09, 2008 Sports in Real
Time • All the Time • All Free
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