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TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 22, 1999 | Volume 90, Issue 8
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February 22, 1999 Candie Kung, Fountain Valley, Calif.GolfCandie, 17, won the Doral Publix Junior Classic Tournament with a two-under-par 54-hole 214. She was named to the American Junior Golf Association's...
February 22, 1999 Do columnists get mulligans? If they did, I'd be the first to toss another Titleist to Reilly.—Dave Bayless, Chicago
February 22, 1999 Letters to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED should include the name, address and home telephone number of the writer. They may be mailed to The Editor, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Time & Life Building, New York,...
DON'T MISS
4.1Bow-ffo cable rating on Feb. 9 for USA Network's second and final night of the Westminster Dog Show, the event's highest rating ever. TNT'S Celtics-Heat game telecast opposite the pooches...
How, we wondered before Sunday's newly expanded one-hour Sports Reporters (ESPN, 10 a.m.), would the show's producers kill the time? With a "Cooking with Lupica" segment? No. While a nearly...
Thanks mostly to the inimitable Buddy Baker, watching Daytona was a gas
Baseball might have to come clean on Mark McGwire's favorite fuel
•That every week featured a show of sportsmanship like the fender-to-fender love tap Dale Earnhardt gave winner Jeff Gordon after the Daytona 500.
February 22, 1999 Walter Payton's PlightA Hard Burden to Bear
February 22, 1999 0Second-half field goals by Phoenix (Ore.) High in a 58-51 victory over Lakeview High in which Phoenix made 28 of 34 free throws.
February 22, 1999 Tickle a Monster
February 22, 1999 "It took 10 years, but this mad excursion worked out." Andy Garcia is talking about Just the Ticket, a ticket-scalper movie that gets the details right, from scalper jargon—money is cheese and...
February 22, 1999 The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence announced its May fundraiser: an aerobic kickboxing marathon.
February 22, 1999 MIKE VEECKDevil Rays senior VP for sales and marketing, on the team's newest promotion, Lawyer Appreciation Day: "We're going to charge them double, bill them by the third of an inning and...
Murray State coach Tevester Anderson, 61, proves it's never too late to begin
Little-known Skechers enters the sneaker wars
February 22, 1999 Fantasy Sports leagues are commonplace, especially those that put fans in charge of baseball, basketball or football squads. But sometimes the Big Three aren't enough for the true sports geeks...
Brant Brown's error didn't kill the Cubs, but people won't let him forget it
No. 1 Duke is once again playing with the kind of swagger exhibited by coach Mike Krzyzewski's title teams
With a pair of scorching rounds in the Buick, Tiger Woods found the magic that's been missing from his game
In Jason Williams, the surprising Sacramento Kings have landed a rookie playmaker whose legerdemain is fast becoming legend
With a thunderous finale against Ike Quartey, his most dangerous opponent yet, Oscar De La Hoya proved that there's guts behind the glitter
The Badgers Aaron Gibson pruned his weight to 371 and blossomed into a bulldozer of a blocker who probably will be the first lineman taken in the NFL draft
February 22, 1999 THE NHL
Lost and FoundFailed phenom Alexei Kovalev has rediscovered his game in Pittsburgh
Coyotes general manager Bobby Smith made an excellent deal last month when he acquired 14-year veteran defenseman J.J. Daigneault from the Predators for future considerations. Daigneault is a...
KASPARAITIS KRUNCHER'SPrice: $2.99 per 24-ounce jarThese spicy dill spears, named for Penguins defenseman Darius Kasparaitis, have an unpleasant taste that overwhelms whatever food they're served...
Nasty TrafficThough ganged up on by the rest of the field, Jeff Gordon won Daytona
4Number of times Jeff Gordon has won a $1 million bonus for meeting qualifying criteria and then finishing first in a designated race, including Sunday's Daytona 500. The only other $1 million...
She's Got NextMichelle Kwan won her third title at the U.S. championships, but 13-year-old runner-up Naomi Nari Nam stole the show
As new examples of Olympic bribery and corruption ooze out day by day, politicians and pundits continue to wag fingers and scold the miscreants. One group, however, has been largely silent on the...
February 22, 1999 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and CNN team up on the Internet to offer the latest sports news and stats. Fight the winter doldrums and hit the beach with the on-line version of SI's annual swimsuit issue:...
Star SearchThe Browns have money to burn, but marquee free agents are scarce
Boston BuckeyesThanks to a new coach and point guard from BC, Ohio State is enjoying a dramatic revival
The question of the week: What on earth has happened to Cincinnati? The Bearcats, who looked like a lock for a No. 1 seed only two weeks ago, fell to a No. 3 by virtue of three straight road...
It was quite a week for Rhode Island. On Feb. 8 John Bennett, a reserve forward on the Rams team that made the Elite Eight last year and a friend of many current Rhode Island players, died of...
George Washington's little big man stands tall in the stats
Getting to Point ATop free-agent guard Kevin Johnson is on the speed dial of many G.M.s
Look for Houston coach Rudy Tomjanovich, who stuck with the U.S. team for the world championships last summer even though the locked-out pros bailed, to be named this week U.S. Olympic coach for...
When asked about the six-year, $70.9 million contract extension that Bucks' guard Ray Allen signed last week, Milwaukee forward Glenn Robinson said, "Keep us together and keep improving, and maybe...
February 22, 1999 Toe JamThirteen-year-old Mikey Caruso, the Junior National Barefoot Waterskiing champion, puts his best foot forward on Lake Ida in Delray Beach, Fla.
How good would Seattle's Moochie Norris be if he could just get some sleep?
When Melvin Whitaker slashed a fellow student's face after a pickup game at Virginia, his big-time college basketball career was over. But thanks to the kindness of a friend's family and a fabled...
TO: DON LOGANChairman and CEO, Time Inc.
February 22, 1999 Jeff Bell, Piano, TexasJeff, 15, won the player of the year award in the 13-15 age group of the Texas Junior Golf Tour by amassing 1,085 points in the 13-event series. In six events Jeff, a...
Next week's World Match Play will feature a field of the 64 top-ranked golfers in the world. Not necessarily the best 64, just the top-ranked 64. There's a big difference.
February 22, 1999 Never a DoubtA week ago we wondered about a former No. 1, Greg Norman, and the player now atop the World Ranking, Tiger Woods. After Norman opened the Australian Masters with a 74, someone...
Back-to-back wins in his first starts have turned Bruce Fleisher, a nobody on the regular Tour, into a Senior sensation
February 22, 1999 | Edited by Cameron Morfit World Ranking under FireMatch Maker
February 22, 1999 | Edited by Cameron Morfit What do these three players have in common?
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