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TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 10, 2003 | Volume 98, Issue 5
NOVEMBER 2, 1959
On Feb. 6, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED will change the name of its website from cnnsi.com to simply si.com. What will not change is our mission: si.com will continue to be the most insightful and complete...
February 10, 2003 Crunching the RefsI don't know why Peter King was defending the officials (SCORECARD, Jan. 20). Sure the refs are only human, but shouldn't we expect them to properly perform their jobs? They're...
February 10, 2003 LETTERS
As a five-year-old fond of standing on a milk crate to inspect her father's car engine, Kelly Sutton was happiest—in the pit-stop poetry of her mother, Carol—"in the garage, getting greazy."
February 10, 2003 A WNBA team playing in a casino? And the problem is...? SI's Frank Deford says pro sports needs to quit moralizing and get real about the so-called threat of gambling
Some baseball players are taking a pay cut. Tough times or collusion?
6Seton Hall players on the floor for the final 12 seconds of regulation during last week's game against Georgetown; each team scored once in that time and the Pirates went on to a 93-82 overtime win.
February 10, 2003 DiedIn a Moscow hospital after an extended illness, Valery Brumel, 60, the last Olympic high jumping champion to use the straddle style (above). After winning a surprise silver at the 1960 Rome...
February 10, 2003 Died
February 10, 2003 Nicole Kidman (below, left) wears a prosthetic nose as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (below, right). With not much going on in the battle over Augusta National's exclusion of women, we thought we'd...
February 10, 2003 | Bill Scheft All right, a couple of jokes, but then Jerry Sloan and I have to shove off.
The hip-hop Hall of Famer stars in the new romantic comedy Deliver Us from Eva and is performing in the NBA's All-Star Read to Achieve concert this Saturday.
February 10, 2003 FEBRUARY 7-13
Too Much Richard, Too Much Bob
February 10, 2003 Considering the list of guest stars, the Feb. 17 episode of the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear could have been taped in Cooperstown. Jerry Van Dyke (right, kicking) plays Big Jimmy, who has long bragged to...
February 10, 2003 A woman is suing a Lexington, Ky., surgeon and University of Kentucky sports booster because he cauterized "UK" onto her uterus before removing it in a hysterectomy.
February 10, 2003 If LeBron James's suspension for accepting merchandise is upheld, this may already be a vintage style.
February 10, 2003 ED JOVANOVSKICanucks All-Star defenseman, on his improvement since being acquired from Florida in '99: "When I got traded here it turned my career around 360 degrees."
February 10, 2003 Funny Valentines
February 10, 2003 Joshua Trott, GLEN COVE, N.Y.SoccerJoshua, 18, a senior center midfielder at Friends Academy High School in Locust Valley, N.Y., scored 38 goals, the most in Nassau County, and was credited with a...
February 10, 2003 LOVE STINKS: b. Steffi Graf skunked Natalia Zvereva 6-0, 6-0 in the final of the 1988 French Open. No men's final in any of the four majors has been a complete shutout.
With his forceful play and a smile that transcends language, Houston's 7'5" YAO MING has given the league a needed boost on two continents
For the down-and-out, the upside of failure is a slightly better chance of snagging the No. 1 pick
Results of a poll commissioned by SI show the interest of NBA fans is waning and that they're disenchanted with the players' behavior
The crunch-time heroics of 5'5" dynamo EARL BOYKINS are a big reason why the Warriors are competitive again
Never mind his paltry 6.5 points per game. Detroit strongman BEN WALLACE earns the MVP honor for his mastery on defense
Here are the rest of our trophy winners, honored for their performance in leading roles
What will be the fate of MJ, the world champs and the most coveted free-agents-in-waiting?
Once a mastermind in Edmonton, Glen Sather has had no success in New York as G.M. of the Rangers. So now he'll try to coach them
February 10, 2003 Dump the dunk? Jack McCallum and Marty Burns suggest how the NBA should revamp All-Star weekend. Read their takes and offer your own at si.com/basketball.
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Cablevision's stewardship has kept the Knicks in the doldrums too
In a battle of unbeatens, No. 2 UConn and its frisky freshman shut down duke to regain the too spot
Raised in that noted hoops hotbed of Newfoundland, sharpshooting guard Carl English traveled 5,800 miles to become a star at Hawaii
Carl English is not the first elite basketball player to come out of Canada Here are five others with roots north of the border.
February 10, 2003 Silent TributeFans and players from the University of New Hampshire (in home whites) and the University of Maine observe a moment of silence last Saturday for the seven astronauts who died aboard...
February 10, 2003 JEFF GORDON won the Cup in 2001, TONY STEWART stomped and kicked his way to the title in '02, but SI predicts that both men will be passed this year by a fellow Hoosier
February 10, 2003 A first-time champion at the Daytona 500, for starters, and a new racing powerhouse
February 10, 2003 How far has NASCAR's reach extended? Look at where today's top drivers got their start
Jeff Gordon is deified by millions as the paragon of all that's right about America, and vilified by millions more as the blue-eyed devil who will be the wrack and ruin of NASCAR, Could they both...
February 10, 2003 College Basketball
Horns of PlentyDeep and relentless, Texas has emerged as a national title contender
1. Gene Keady is doing a masterly job at Purdue. The Boilermakers were picked in the preseason to finish no higher than seventh in the Big Ten, but thanks to the leadership of the 66-year-old...
South Florida's Jimmy Baxter scored his biggest victory by coming to the aid of two victims of a serious car accident
Richard Hidalgo hopes to bounce back after surviving an off-season shooting
Here are four young players whose careers were derailed by injuries and are now looking to make an impact this season.
There was the high school god—6'8", 240-pound senior LeBron James—sitting on the bench. And here was the high school nobody—5'76", 150-pound junior Brandon Weems—taking James's spot in the...
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