FEBRUARY 19-28, 1960: THE U.S. WINS HOCKEY GOLD AT SQUAW VALLEY

OCTOBER 7, 1945: DON HUTSON STARS FOR THE PACKERS

This week we give thanks for The Fleming File. SI's David Fleming nominates our second annual Turkeys of the Year and asks for your feedback at cnnsi.com/si_online.

OCTOBER 1-9, 1919: THE BLACK SOX THROW THE WORLD SERIES

JULY 6, 1957: ALTHEA GIBSON WINS WIMBLEDON

SEPTEMBER 8, 1974: EVEL KNIEVEL TAKES ON THE SNAKE RIVER CANYON

Heels over HeadNice blocking by Penn State makes Michigan State linebacker Josh Thornhill take a dive in front of quarterback Kevin Thompson during the Spartans' 35-28 win last Saturday.

SEPTEMBER 11, 1918: THE RED SOX WIN THE WORLD SERIES

SEPTEMBER 18-20, 1913: FRANCIS OUIMET WINS THE U.S. OPEN

JANUARY 10, 1982: SAN FRANCISCO REATS DALLAS ON THE CATCH

MARCH 17, 1955: THE RIOT OVER ROCKET RICHARD

JUNE 8-29, 1958: PELÉ MAKES HIS WORLD CUP DEBUT

NOVEMBER 19, 1966: NOTRE DAME 10, MICHIGAN ST. 10

NOVEMBER 1, 1938: SEABISCUIT RACES WAR ADMIRAL

MARCH 26, 1979: BIRD MEETS MAGIC FOR THE NCAA TITLE

AUGUST 3-9, 1936: JESSE OWENS DOMINATES THE BERLIN OLYMPICS

PRO FOOTBALLNiners' Rice losing starchAnother draft debacle for Chargers' BeathardTo go or not to go (for two)

Sinking FastAging Jerry Rice is going down with the 49ers' once-proud ship

You might think that offenses would keep getting better at the two-point attempt, which was introduced in the NFL in 1994. But in 1999 teams are worse than ever at cashing in. Here's a...

1. This Guy Knows FootballThink Mike Holmgren has had an impact in his inaugural season in Seattle? For the first time in their 24-year history the Sea-hawks entered Sunday's play with a two-game...

The jets are going to upset the Colts in Indianapolis. There, I said it. And if the Colts run up another one of their big scores, I can always go back to driving my taxi.

Bye-Bye, BuckeyesOhio State fell to Michigan to conclude its worst season of the 1990s

•Boston College (4-2, 8-2) at Virginia Tech (6-0, 10-0)The Eagles have been a pleasant surprise in the Big East, but let's not get carried away. They've won five games by four points or fewer and...

David Allen, KR, Kansas State—The 5'9", 195-pound junior (above) this season tied an NCAA career record for punts returned for touchdowns (seven) while averaging 13.9 yards on 28 returns and...

Birmingham's Legion Field is, sadly, no longer a football mecca

No TomorrowThe Rangers' plan for getting back to the top may have a fatal flaw

KEITH PRIMEAUHURRICANES CHe led Carolina with 62 points in 1998-99, but this season, as a restricted free agent unable to come to contract terms, he's sitting out. A 6'4", 210-pound bruiser,...

Several NHL scouts who recently returned from Europe are raving about 17-year-old right wing Marian Gaborik of Trencin, a club team in Slovakia. The 6'1", 183-pound Gaborik is an explosive...

The Winner Is...Our rundown on the best and worst of the racing world this season

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The sports Illustrated 20th Century Sports Awards

November 1, 1971

If I were the "whip-smart, well-read" Costas, surely I could come up with more of a TV sports outrage than someone proclaiming his faith.—MIKE RENFRO, Dallas

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,...

Highlights

To watch 11 p.m. highlights shows is to know that we're in the age of preinformation. There's Vince, Kenny or Keith keeping the outcome a mystery until the end of the highlight—even though the...

The best road team in college football visited Gainesville, Fla., last Saturday, surrounded by all the trappings of a major program. Training table. Headsets. Police escorts (two per man). Even...

Gentlemen, start your search engines: The race for NASCAR.com is gearing up

"There can only be one Marvin Gaye. There can only be one Queen of Soul. And there can only be one Prime Time."

For fools and blowhards there's nothing worse/than getting skewered in rhyming verse

You may not like Karl Malone's politics, but at least he's got some

Look out below. Anything can happen when Shaquille O'Neal lets fly with a free throw. Through Monday the Lakers' loose cannon had canned just 58 of 147 foul shots, launching line drives and air...

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Funeral PyreSchool spirit claimed 12 lives at Texas A&M

Dropped•The arena anthem Rock and Roll Part II (the "Hey!" song), by the NBA's Raptors and the NHL's Flames, Maple Leafs and Oilers, after the song's writer and performer, Gary Glitter, was...

The Proliferation of pro teams makes for ever more logos, some of which should have been no-go's. Name the teams symbolized here (including a new NHL expansion club), and win a date with a carnivore.

The NFL discovered that the song sampled in one of its ads, Eminem's My Name Is, deals with suicide, drugs, rape and drunk driving.

JERRY OSTROSKIBills center, after Sunday's 17-7 loss to the Jets: "We were pretty opportunistic as far as picking really good times to blow things."

For 50 years winter has been Miller time at the movies

Jeff Farkas, Williamsville, N.Y.HockeyFarkas, a senior forward at Boston College, was named Hockey East player of the month after getting eight goals and eight assists for the Eagles, who finished...

Last Thursday in a raucous estadio in Havana, Fidel Castro earned a victory cigar and Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez entered the pantheon of politicians who couldn't back up their smack. Chávez...

D.C. United brought out the worst in the L.A. Galaxy to win its third title

Navy's Terrence Anderson is an NCAA dream; his father, an NCAA outcast

Her teen rivals got more hype, but Lindsay Davenport got the win at the Chase

Balloonist Steve Fossett is still chasing records, now in a high-speed catamaran

The 19th-century antecedents of the bicycle—from the velocipede, with its wooden frame and iron tires, to the high-wheeled Original—did little to keep the bumps in the road from reaching the seat...

With three World Cup wins, former golfer Ed Moses proved water's no hazard

THE LOST EXPLORERBy Conrad Anker and David RobertsSimon & Schuster, $22

Scott Johnston is firmly in the saddle again after a near fatal plane crash

Donnell Finnaman, who is deaf, never heard that girls shouldn't play football

Led a cool Chris Weinke, refocused Florida State sank Florida in the Swamp to win a shot at the national title

Despite rules changes that were supposed to doom rugged teams like Miami, Pat Riley's crew is off to its hottest start

So far the NBA rules changes have had the desired effect of creating more offense. Scoring is up over each of the past two seasons, and even though more fouls are being called, the surge in points...

Led by rock-hard stars Eddie George and Steve McNair, the Titans have emerged from mediocrity to quietly make a name for themselves in the AFC

THE SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 20TH CENTURY SPORTS AWARDS

Lou Gehrig

Otto Graham

Michael Jordan

Mario Lemieux

Chris Evert

Pete Sampras

Bonnie Blair

OUR WRITERS PICK THE SPORTS EVENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY THEY'D MOST LIKE TO HAVE SEEN

OCTOBER 3, 1947: COOKIE LAVAGETTO BREAKS UP A WORLD SERIES NO-HITTER

DECEMBER 7, 1941: REDSKINS VERSUS EAGLES ON PEARL HARBOR DAY

FEBRUARY 25, 1964: CASSIUS CLAY BEATS SONNY LISTON

AUGUST 6, 1926: GERTRUDE EDERLE CROSSES THE ENGLISH CHANNEL

SEPTEMBER 21, 1964: THE REDS' CHICO RUIZ STUNS THE PHILLIES

JULY 13, 1904: THE FIRST OLYMPIC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT