|
TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 30, 2003 | Volume 98, Issue 26
STAR SYSTEM
What Oakland pitcher Tim Hudson takes on every trip:
Growing up in a poor area outside Toronto didn't stop Anthony Stewart from becoming a first-round draft pick
Don't be surprised to see Bruins goalie Jeff Hackett, who becomes an unrestricted free agent on July I, sign with the Flyers. Last month Philadelphia traded its No. 1 netminder, Roman Cechmanek,...
Hung out with Ted Williams the other day. Pretty cool.
June 30, 2003 Sharp SpurIt was exciting to see the San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan grace the cover of the June 9 issue. His commitment to education sets a wonderful example for those still in high school and...
June 30, 2003 LETTERS•Please e-mail us at letters@si.timeinc.com or fax us at 212-467-4049. Letters should include the writer's full name, address and home telephone number and may be edited for clarity and space.
When Jose Canseco welcomed me into his South Florida home one day in mid-June, the only 'roids he had to fear were hemorrhoids. He was rooted to his sofa, under house arrest, in a kind of...
A best-seller made A's G.M. Billy Beane look like a genius. Will it also make him a pariah?
Hewitt's early exit goes unmourned
1Cities that have had both the Super Bowl and the Arena Bowl champions in the same year, after the Tampa Bay Storm beat the Arizona Rattlers 43-29 on Sunday.
June 30, 2003 InjuredWhen he crashed on his week-old motorcycle in a residential Chicago neighborhood last Thursday evening, Bulls guard Jay Williams. Official details of the accident and his injuries have not...
Died
After Jackie Robinson, Doby blazed a trail of his own
The 40-year-old ESPN tennis analyst, and five-time Wimbledon doubles champ, wed the 63-year-old onetime James Bond (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) last year.
June 30, 2003 | Bill Scheft Good to be here. Just finished a new book about Wizards: Harry Potter and the Vanishing Season-Ticket Base.
June 30, 2003 SUNDAY 6/29SPEED 7:30 AMFormula One European Grand Prix at NürburgringOn his native soil, Germany's Michael Schumacher goes for his fifth win in nine races.
Making Waves, Lone Malone
June 30, 2003 Here's a sign that Derek Jeter and Mariah Carey are still on pretty good terms five years after their public breakup: The diva donated a pair of her cutoff denim shorts to an auction benefiting...
June 30, 2003 "The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball," a collection of about 100 works describing the length and depth of the nation's love for the sport, has opened at the American Folk Art Museum in New...
June 30, 2003 Women in Japan have been styling their pubic hair after David Beckham's Mohawk.
June 30, 2003 JEFF BAGWELLAstros first baseman on a power slump in which he has gone without a home run in 35 games: "I'm Ichiro without speed and without the batting average."
June 30, 2003 Jerrika Chapple, LANCASTER, TEXASTrack and FieldJerrika, a recent graduate of Lancaster High, won four consecutive championships in both the 400 meters and the 4 x 400 relay at the University...
Lawn Work
Cardinals slugger ALBERT PUJOLS has emerged as the game's top offensive threat and launched an early bid for the first Triple Crown in 36 years
Vitali Klitschko outslugged Lennox Lewis, but a bloody gash halted his title challenge
High-styling, high-fiving Florida rookie Dontrelle Willis has everybody, even the famously indifferent Marlins fans, talking about his historic start
ANDY RODDICK serves rockets, and he's not the only man capable of breaking 150 mph. But is a big delivery enough to win Wimbledon?
Long after Fernandomania swept the nation, Mexico's greatest béisbol export still has the game in his blood—and his bloodlines. Are you ready for Fernandito?
Nancy gets whacked. Tonya pleads innocence. Oksana beats them both to win the gold. You couldn't make this stuff up
The Hall of Fame forward has been reborn as an educational evangelist, preaching his radical gospel of memorizing through visualization
June 30, 2003 As third baseman Graig Nettles points out in The Bronx Zoo, reliever Sparky Lyle's memoir of the 1978 Yankees, some little boys dream about running away to join the circus, others fantasize about...
The Bronx Zoo's quirkiest character remains a kid at heart, sharing his wisdom with youngsters in his native Miami
The über-athlete who gave two sports his best shot now takes dead aim at the good life
June 30, 2003 For a classic SI covers gallery featuring Fernando Valenzuela, Nancy Kerrigan, Bo Jackson, Chuck Wepner, Ron Blomberg and others, go to si.com.
June 30, 2003 To sign up for Sports Illustrated's free subscriber-only e-mail newsletter, go to http://sicustomerservice.com/siextra.
Why did baseball's buxom Kissing Bandit retire her act four years ago? Hard to say, because now she's revealing nothing
Nearly three decades after he went 15 rounds against the Greatest and inspired a movie, the Bayonne Bleeder is still living the good life in his hardscrabble hometown
You don't need to be Yao Ming to make your mark in the sports world. We caught up with six former athletes who, though small in stature, measured up in the eyes of history
June 30, 2003 U.S. TEAM TRIALSWRESTLING
He became a legend throughout baseball by throwing the fastest fastball ever—and rarely getting it over the plate. Then he flamed out, on and off the field
June 30, 2003 | Compiled by Lars Anderson, Trisha Blackmar, Jessica Garrison, Bryan Graham, Pete McEntegart, Mary Pinkham, Erika Sauerwein and Kevin Tran Checking in with a pair of footballers, the original DHs and a slew of college hoops hotshots, and paying our final respects
June 30, 2003 | Compiled by Lars Anderson, Trisha Blackmar, Jessica Garrison, Bryan Graham, Pete McEntegart, Mary Pinkham, Erika Sauerwein and Kevin Tran Banks isn't the only former athlete involved in the fashion or clothing-sales business. Here are some others.
June 30, 2003 | Compiled by Lars Anderson, Trisha Blackmar, Jessica Garrison, Bryan Graham, Pete McEntegart, Mary Pinkham, Erika Sauerwein and Kevin Tran A roundup of the inaugural designated hitters for the American League's other II teams.Mike Andrews, White Sox, Chairman of the Jimmy Fund charity, BostonGates Brown, Tigers, Retired from M&M...
June 30, 2003 | Compiled by Lars Anderson, Trisha Blackmar, Jessica Garrison, Bryan Graham, Pete McEntegart, Mary Pinkham, Erika Sauerwein and Kevin Tran Here's a sampling of the postcollegiate careers of other long-forgotten NCAA basketball scoring leaders.
June 30, 2003 | Compiled by Lars Anderson, Trisha Blackmar, Jessica Garrison, Bryan Graham, Pete McEntegart, Mary Pinkham, Erika Sauerwein and Kevin Tran We searched far and wide to find the resting places of some of spoils' most famous names and discovered a range of styles, from the elegantly simple to the grandiose. Of course, all things...
June 30, 2003 Baseball
Wild RiceThe Owls beat Stanford to win their first national title in any sport
Victor Martinez
|
|
