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A new soccer website is pumping up coverage of the U.S. game and of American booters abroad

Tony Kornheiser, who dyes the gray whiskers that steal into his red beard and who wrote a book titled Bald As I Wanna Be, has a great face for radio. He has an even better mind for it.

On Inauguration Day, The Golf Channel Presents a one-hour special, Presidential Golf (Saturday, 8 p.m.), chronicling White House linksmanship....

Sports stars can no longer keep feuds in the family

Vernon Maxwell/Gary Payton, Sonics, March 2000Mad Max tosses weight at Payton as Payton threatens with chair; Horace Grant plays peacemaker and gets bruised shoulder for his trouble.

Q Does Gatorade pay NFL players or the TV networks for those dousings of coaches after a big win?

When news broke that the great thoroughbred Affirmed had been euthanized last Friday at 26, an inimitable scene from the 1978 Belmont Stakes played over and over, like a grainy film, in the mind's...

$463,400Seat license fees the Burris family, which owns a sports bar in Shawano, Wis., must pay to retain the rights to its 331 Packers season tickets in the remodeled Lambeau Field.

Unlike Miami or New Orleans, Tampa, this year's Super Bowl host city, doesn't bring to mind raw hedonism. But don't be fooled: Its underbelly is just as seamy, and potential troubles abound for...

A week in the life of Wilson the volleyball, Hollywood's latest sensation.

Crashed•Into an Oakland seafood restaurant, a blimp emblazoned with the logo of the fledgling XFL. The dirigible was attempting to moor at Oakland International Airport when a gust caused a...

Old NFL stars never die, they just get roped into embarrassing made-for-TV sporting spectacles. As part of its Toughman World Championship Series boxing competition, cable network FX recruited 20...

They may command millions of dollars per movie and have entourages as large as Boy Scout troops, but what many Hollywood celebs really want is to know that they've got game. That's why one of the...

On the Super Bowl's international feed, the virtual first-down line will carry logos of corporate sponsors FedEx, General Motors of Canada and Mexico's Banca Serfin.

LESLIE MOONVESPresident of CBS, asked how far the network would go to promote the new season of Survivor on its Super Bowl broadcast: "Do you think Richard Hatch kicking off would be too much?"

To his amazement, Dana Marek, 47, is on the ice again at UMass Boston

Designers have taken big strides in making skiing and snowboarding easier and safer

Steven Kennedy, DAYTONA BEACHBasketballSteven, a 6'4" senior forward at Spruce Creek High in Port Orange, set single-game school records for points (51) and free throws (14) in a 99-61 defeat of...

Throwing like a Hall of Famer, Kerry Collins sparked the Giants to a stunning annihilation of the Vikings and a berth in the Super Bowl

With an AFC Championship win over the Raiders, much-maligned Ravens quarterback Trent Dilfer moved a step closer to the ultimate prize

With points at a premium, the Ravens will find a way to squeeze by the Giants

This week Jon Wertheim tells you what's up Down Under with exclusive reports from the Australian Open. Plus, Peter King gets you prepped for the big game in Tampa.

With game as big as his 11,000-square-foot digs, Jerry Stackhouse has finally found a home for his talent in Detroit

The front-running Blues need only a modest upgrade if they're to win their first Stanley Cup

Here is SI's All-Star team for the first half of the season.

In a season marked by dazzling rookies (the Lightning's Brad Richards and the Senators' Martin Havlat, to name two) and resurgent old-timers (most notably the Penguins' Mario Lemieux and the...

While the Blues' organization is thick with talent, it doesn't have as many youthful future stars as some other clubs. In determining the clubs with the strongest collection of promising young...

Here are the teams with the best chances of winning the Stanley Cup, according to SI's Pierre McGuire (all statistics through Sunday).

Like his mythical namesake, Seton Hall forward Eddie Griffin—probably the nation's best freshman—is a blend of contradictory forces

Seton Hall freshman Eddie Griffin (33) leads the nation in rebounding and is second in blocked shots, but even if he doesn't end up atop those categories at year's end, he's still on pace for a...

THE NBA

New Tricks For Big DogThe Bucks' Glenn Robinson, once deemed one-dimensional, is flashing an all-around game

One of the reasons the Grizzlies might be interested in trading Shareef Abdur-Rahim or Mike Bibby is Vancouver's need for another first-round draft pick. To complete their 1997 acquisition of Otis...

Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett

On defending against the Mavericks' sharp-shooting trio of Michael Finley, Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki:

This time around, 76ers guard Aaron McKie is thriving—and not just surviving—in his hometown

One-Shot DealIn Johnny Damon, the A's got what they needed—for a year, at least

Teams in need of a gate attraction this season—are you listening, Tigers and Twins?—might stir interest by grabbing a future Hall of Famer willing to work cheap. At week's end outfielder Rickey...

Cash Talks, They WalkMichael Vick and 27 other underclassmen decided to cash in early with the NFL

Sense of DuneThe Mercedes ML 430 driven by Jean-Pierre Strugo and Pascal Larroque of France makes like a sand wedge in the Moroccan Sahara during the Er Rachidia-to-Ouarzazate leg of the ongoing...

Just Like Old TimesAn undefeated start has Georgetown once again looking like the Beast of the East

When Rick Pitino resigned as president and coach of the Boston Celtics on Jan. 8, he loosed a fusillade of rumors over where he will land next. Feeding the frenzy of speculation is the number of...

Perpetually dyspeptic Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins was so angry at his Bearcats after their Dec. 30 loss to Toledo that he booted them out of their locker room at the Shoemaker Center. Their new...

Texas's Chris Owens has the same urge to excel that his great uncle Jesse had

I'm sorry. I realize I've been wrong in the past for criticizing Michael Jordan. I'm a very stupid person.

Whitney Welch, Las VegasWhitney, 16, a junior at Durango High, shot a four-over 220 to edge runner-up Kristi Larsen, a freshman at New Mexico, by a stroke at the Arizona Silver Belle Championship...

Take it from someone else with a handicap, Casey Martin shouldn't be allowed to ride

•No Trouble in ParadiseJim Furyk should play a limited schedule. Limited, that is, to tournaments held in Hawaii and Las Vegas.

Starting four strokes back on the final day of the Mercedes Championships, Jim Furyk shifted gears, picked up speed and won the title on the last hole

The kitchen of Ely Callaway's sprawling hacienda-style house in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., minutes before Arnold Palmer's much anticipated Jan. 8 appearance on The Golf Channel, was like the inside...

Ernie ELS should be 2 for 2 this season, but he's not getting it done. The two-time U.S. Open champion's habit of going blooey when he's in contention makes one wonder: Is he pressing, or is his...

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Do you think Tiger looks better with blond or black hair?

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