SI's picks for all the best—and worst—from an eventful season

Virginia Tech RB Lee SuggsversusMiami LB Jonathan Vilma

If you think Green Bay Packers wideout Donald Driver is fast now, you should've seen him when he was stealing cars.

Who's old school? Well, there's photographer Walter Iooss Jr., who has been shooting for SI since 1961 and has yet to convert to a digital camera. And then there are Brett Favre, Ray Lewis, Jerry...

DECEMBER 4, 1989

Getting PreppedI applaud your series on The High School Athlete (Nov. 18). I coach high school football and baseball. I hope we coaches can remember that the games are for the players and that...

LETTERS

Hockey players, among all athletes, have the coolest way of entering a game, hopping over the boards with one hand, like Steve McQueen getting into a convertible. But basketball is forever, and so...

Weeding is fundamental for many professional athletes, even though they're winding up on the blotter pages

Variable pricing means fans will pay more for hot tickets

Her name, like her speed off the blocks, seemed to augur a bright future. In 1996, shortly before she became America's top 500-meter high school runner, Promise Mose was an SI FACE IN THE CROWD...

1African-American NFL general manager now that Ozzie Newsome has been promoted to the position by the Ravens.

RICHMONDPromise, a junior sprinter on the John F. Kennedy High track team, has won five state Group AAA titles and nine Central Region championships. Promise, an honor student, holds six school...

DeclaredBy Wizards guard Michael Jordan, that following this season he will retire from the NBA for the third time and resume his role as part owner of the team. Jordan, 39, who quit the Chicago...

Postponed

For those who watched the Macy's Parade, there was no Butterbean balloon this year. That was Butterbean.

The 42-year-old Hall of Fame defensive lineman Turned studio analyst for Fox's NFL Sunday hosts SI's Sportsman of the Year Show 2002 on Dec. 8 at 4:30 p.m. ET on Fox.

•Andy and Mandy are shedding their inhibitions. Tennis star Andy Roddick, 20, and pop singer-actress Mandy Moore, 18, came out as a couple last week as they mingled with Jimmy Fallon, Fran...

The English soccer team Manchester United says it has up to 1,800 deceased season-ticket holders, whose families haven't notified the club of the deaths for fear of losing rights to the tickets.

If you think the potholes in the New York City Marathon are dangerous, consider this U.S. soldier, running in the Minefield Marathon at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, under the watchful eye of...

MIKE HOLMGRENSeahawks coach, offering insight into the nature of momentum: "When it's going, it just kind of goes, and when it's not going, it kind of stops."

DECEMBER 6-12

George on Our Mind, Scorn for Horn, Myers Hired

Allison Shaw, SELMA, IND.VolleyballAllison, a Wapahani High junior, had 11 kills and a .526 hitting percentage as she led the Raiders to a win in the state title game over defending champion...

Rice Patterns

CATCHING ON: d. On Dec. 1, 1985, the 49ers beat the Redskins 35-8 at RFK Stadium, and Rice went catchless. The following week he had 10 receptions for 241 yards against the Los Angeles Rams to...

No crowds, no clock, no contact—but even lined up against the camera, the game's greatest players reveal the warrior inside

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With a stellar showing against Notre Dame, USC's Carson Palmer proved he deserves college football's most coveted award

In this wide-open Heisman race Carson Palmer is far from a unanimous choice. Four more SI Heisman voters reveal how they'll cast their ballots.

Why would the Rangers' 41-year-old captain keep playing a ferocious sport against men half his age? Because there's nothing he'd rather do

For sheer fun, it's hard to top the spectacle of billionaires behaving badly in the America's Cup qualifying now under way in New Zealand

In the last installment of a series, SI visits two suburbs of St. Louis where the Thanksgiving Day football game is not just an old-fashioned rivalry—it's something to savor forever

Crisp BillsBuffalo safety Coy Wire (27) awaits the snap as blizzardlike conditions sweep through Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., on Sunday. The Bills beat the Dolphins 38-21; in an...

College BasketballIgnited by a precocious freshman trio, North Carolina gets off to a startling start

Three frisky freshmen have helped rejuvenate North Carolina

1. Indiana is better than advertised. Coach Mike Davis's claim that the current Hoosiers are superior to last year's NCAA tournament runner-up may be an overstatement. But with freshman guards...

St. Louis BluesSidelined by another hand injury, the Rams' Kurt Warner is battered, beaten and nowhere near the MVP of old

TRADING E-MAIL WITH...Eagles defensive end Hugh Douglas

October 6 was not a good day for the Michael Vick legend. The Bucs roughed up the Falcons' quarterback plenty. "I took a lot of good shots," Vick recalls. "I hit my head two or three times. I bit...