Flipping over to SportsCenter, Green Bay Packers defensive end Reggie White can't help notice that sitting in for Dan Patrick is God.

March 28, 1966

If Iverson is the future of the NBA, then the NBA has no future with me.—DON MAYNARD, Cary, N.C.

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•That more basketball coaches at big-time programs were like Kansas's Roy Williams, who offered to go on the road first in a series with Penn.

The Northwestern ScandalCampus Recruits

35,000,000Revenue, in dollars, that San Antonio expected to reap from the Final Four.

YESHere's hoping the owners' notification that they want to abolish the designated hitter has legs far better than Harold Baines's. Lose the DH and you lose two thirds of a run per game. Big deal....

With a ninth victory last week, the Denver Nuggets needed, as of Monday night, only one more in their final 10 games to avoid tying the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers for the worst winning percentage...

Angry that public funds were used to build Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, the chairman of the county Libertarian Party says he will hire a witch to put a hex on Arizona Diamondbacks players and...

ANTHONY MASONCharlotte Hornets forward, claiming that the Hornets' offense works best when run through him in the low post: "I don't need the ball to score."

Departments

The result is room-temperature, artificial snow for those who prefer to ski indoors

Major leaguers Step to the plate this week for the start of another season, which means armchair general managers are digging in for a summer of box score combing and number crunching in fantasy...

Dick Williams clung to a lifeboat for six hours and later became U.S. champion

Glory Daysby Bill ReynoldsSt. Martin's Press, $22.95

After 87 years of a single state champ, Indiana crowned four this season

Coach-G.M. Mike Milbury tried to beat the clock, revamp the Islanders and save his job

Whatever your preferred terrain, you can now find an in-line skate that's perfect for it. The sport started as a way for hockey players to keep fit during the off-season, but now armies of urban...

When Rio Ramirez fled Cuba, diving was the last thing on his mind

It has taken a quarter of a century, a little luck and the help of some baseball players who weren't even born when it all began, but Hartford is at last completing its tribute to Roberto...

Suzianne Reid, Riverdale, Md.Track and FieldReid, a junior at Texas, won the women's 400 meters at the NCAA indoor championships in 52.57 seconds, the fastest time by a collegiate woman this...

Saturday 4/4

During a steamy sauna scene in the premiere of the hour-long drama Push (ABC, Monday, 8 p.m.), Cal Southern University assistant gymnastics coach Nikki Lang (played by Jamie Pressly) recalls her...

Digging itself out of one last hole, Kentucky brought a resounding end to the first year of the Tubby Smith era with its seventh NCAA title

DreadclockedSweat flies in one direction, hair in another, as Lennox Lewis pounds out a fifth-round TKO over overmatched Shannon Briggs in their WBC heavyweight championship fight.

The Final Four landed in San Antonio with the usual array of ticket scalpers, hoops freaks and sweat suit clad coaches, but this time a Riverwalk ran through it

An unprecedented third consecutive NCAA championship answers the question, Are the 39-0 Lady Vols, with an all-star cast led by Chamique Holdsclaw the greatest ever?

With another of his patented late charges, the unflappable Justin Leonard blew by the field to win the Players Championship

At the Lipton, Marcelo Ríos claimed the men's No. 1 ranking, while two hard-charging teens defeated the world's too women

As their showboating and swagger undermine their talent, Chris Webber and the Wizards are again struggling to claim a playoff spot

THE NHL

Still Going Great

F BRYAN SMOLINSKIIslanders1997-98 salary: $1.4 millionA floater at center and wing, he had only 12 goals through Sunday and can't make an impact without a star on his line.

The maple leafs were only five points out of the final spot in the Western Conference playoff race at week's end, despite having only one bona fide scoring threat in center Mats Sundin. A big...

Pressure Picks

Former NFL star Willie Davis owns five radio stations

Not even the sting of salt water keeps Kyle Turley's eyes from widening in anticipation of the approaching swell. He draws his knees forward, mounts his board and catches the wave. Surfing is a...

Pain Drain

Riley's Battle PlansThe playoffs are fast approaching, which means Heat coach Pat Riley is sharpening his motivational techniques. He tells SI that before games he checks the wastebaskets in...

When Damon Stoudamire was acquired by the Trail Blazers in February, he said that he would "wait and see" before deciding whether to re-sign with Portland as a free agent this summer. He's...

Will Past Be Prologue?Wizards point guard Rod Strickland, is one of only a handful of veterans-including the Knicks' Charles Oakley (above) and the Bulls' Scottie Pippen-who have qualified for the...

April 5CHICAGO AT HOUSTONThe SummitThe Bulls and Rockets, the title teams of the '90s, battle for the last time this year. Because Rockets guard Clyde Drexler will hang up his sneakers after the...

Though he's short on moves and muscles, the Clippers' 7'3" rookie center blocks shots and earns $1.7 million

Just moments after telling young prospects Todd Dun-woody and Kevin Millar last week that they were being sent down, a subdued Jim Leyland sat in his office at Space Coast Stadium in Viera, Fla.,...

Twenty-five years after the renegade World Hockey Association first dropped the puck, players who jumped leagues for big bucks look back and laugh—or cry

Half a century after getting run out of the tournament, Frank Stranahan is still going strong

It's 2009, and the Lords of Augusta are pondering subtle changes to the Masters

The ultra-aggressive style of Tiger Woods and an elite group of players may well force radical change at Augusta National

In his homeland Jumbo Ozaki is the undisputed king of golf. So why can't he get respect any where else?

Pat Hurst got out fast Land didn't look back in winning her first major

For all his ideas about what can be done at Augusta National for it to remain a great test, Jack Nicklaus prefers that the course not be touched. He wants to change the golf ball.

Still StruttingFlamboyant Doug Sanders doesn't want to fade away

People ask me how I'd stop the low scores at Augusta National—to save the course's honor, so to speak. Here's what I say.

Bad Tiger Tales: John Feinstein's new book is tided The First Coming and subtitled Tiger Woods: Master or Martyr? Do we need to read further to know where the author's coming from?

Giving Tiger Pause: Gary Player relishes the thought of a Tiger Woods-Ernie Els rivalry that could last for decades. "Tiger's full swing is more impressive, but Ernie is far better from 100 yards...

Every year during the week of the Freeport-McDermott Classic outside New Orleans, Louisiana's own Kelly Gibson plays galloping gourmand, leading fellow players on merry hunts for the best food in...

What do these players have in common?

It wasn't showy putting that won Tiger Woods the Masters

How good was the 270 Tiger Woods shot last year in the Masters? Better by a stroke than the lowest first, second, third and final rounds that Ben Hogan ever played at Augusta National. Here's how...

73Weeks between Lee Trevino's previous Senior tour victory at the 1996 Emerald Coast Classic, and his win in last week's Southwestern Bell Dominion.

PGA

There are good reasons to believe Tiger Woods won't repeat at Augusta