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TABLE OF CONTENTS
May 24, 2004 | Volume 100, Issue 21
May 24, 2004 Pat TillmanThis letter is almost three years too late; I meant to write it when I first heard of Pat Tillman's amazing sacrifice in honor of those who died on Sept. 11, including my brother,...
May 24, 2004 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.
Numbers don't lie, but letters sometimes stretch the truth. KFC now pretends, in commercials, to stand for Kitchen Fresh Chicken, and it can't be long before we see the similar re-branding of...
For Tiger Woods, whose rapid ascension left him nowhere to go but down, these are the bad old days. Can he get his game back in time for the U.S. Open?
Missouri's coach survived an NCAA investigation, but did his reputation?
35Percentage of male athletes who admitted in an NCAA survey to gambling on college sports last year.
May 24, 2004 NamedAs head coach of the Nashville Rhythm of the American Basketball Association, Ashley McElhiney, the first female head coach of a men's pro basketball team. The 22-year-old, who is the alltime...
Won By 15-year-old twins Alex and Scott Chun, arguably the most coincidence-laden high school doubles tennis match ever played. Fighting a case of double vision, the freshman duo beat twins Eric...
May 24, 2004 | Bill Scheft Try to keep it down. We don't want to wake up Roy Jones Jr.
The moderator of NBC's Meet the Press—and a die-hard Bills fan—is the author of Big Russ & Me, a memoir about his father.
May 24, 2004 Perennial party girl Tara Reid likes to play the field with guys who play on fields. After being seen canoodling in 2002 with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (just before the Pats lost two of their...
May 24, 2004 No, it's not The Three Stooges Go to Canada; it happens to be a scene from the NHL playoffs. With linesman Scott Driscoll doing an excellent Moe, Philadelphia's Branko Radivojevic (left) and Tampa...
May 24, 2004 Sammy Sosa injured his back sneezing.
May 24, 2004 CHAD MOELLERBrewers catcher, upon receiving a motorcycle for hitting for the cycle: "At this point it's in my contract that I can't ride one, and after Aaron Boone, I'm trying to follow the...
WHAT TO WATCH AND WATCH FOR
May 24, 2004 | Sridhar Pappu •SMART COVERAGEA year ago, when Seabiscuit was looming on the summer schedule, many people in the racing business were predicting that the movie would be a powerful promotional tool. Attendance...
May 24, 2004 | Sridhar Pappu THE POLL POSITION
May 24, 2004 Anjelica Selden, VACAVILLE, CALIF.SoftballAnjelica, a senior righthander at Vanden High, pitched 10 consecutive no-hitters, the longest such streak in the nation this year. She also had seven...
North Stars
CANADA'S CUP: b. The Canucke were the fast Canadian team to make it to the Stanley cup finals; they lost to the Rangers in 1994. The Canadiens were the last to win the Cup, beating the Kings in '93.
May 24, 2004 To submit a candidate for Faces in the Crowd, go to SI.com/faces.
New Mexico has become a youth-soccer hotbed, thanks in part to changes that have opened the game to more Hispanic immigrants
For more about sports in New Mexico and the other 49 states, go to si.com/50.
A summer in a New Mexico oil field taught the Bears star to stick to football
New Mexicans weigh in on sports*
To read an SI Flashback story about New Mexico State football's woeful history, vote for the best NFL player born in the Land of Enchantment or submit your own Lobos or Aggies sports memory, go to...
Just 15 minutes from his family—and four months removed from his brief retirement—the ageless Roger Clemens is mowing down hitters a and heating up the baseball climate in Houston
Jockey Stewart Elliott directed Smarty Jones to a record romp in the Preakness, and suddenly the Triple Crown looked very much in reach
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May 24, 2004 Rocket science: For a by-the-numbers review of Roger Clemens's career—including a game-by-game log, stats and SI Flashbacks—go to si.com/baseball.
Everything changes when you get to Game 7. The air is different. The noise is different. And there's so much weight
THE GLORIES OF THE ULTIMATE GAME
For more NBA and NHL Game 7 playoff lore, including players who have been involved in the most series clinchers, go to si.com.
SEVEN GAME 7s TO REMEMBER
May 24, 2004 .4-Gone ConclusionAfter an inbounds pass with .4 of a second left, Lakers guard Derek Fisher launches an 18-footer just as the buzzer sounds to beat Tim Duncan (inset) and his Spurs in Game 5 of...
SEVEN GAME 7s TO REMEMBER
SEVEN GAME 7s TO REMEMBER
A high-speed postseason (ding-dong, the trap is dead!) has rewritten the NHL stylebook. Should be a thrilling final—but are you watching?
For more NHL playoff coverage, including breakdowns of every series, go to si.com/hockey/nhl/specials/playoffs/2004.
The U.S. Army Rangers are among the most superbly conditioned athletes in the world, and their Best Ranger Competition is a grueling 60-hour endurance event held annually at Fort Benning, Ga. It...
An hour-by-hour look at the Best Ranger schedule shows that sleep is not among the priorities
May 24, 2004 Baseball
Outta Here?Ken Griffey Jr. is healthy and hitting homers—so will the Reds trade him?
Alex Rodriguez, 3B, YankeesSince April 18, when he was hitting. 156, A-Rod has returned to form: .350 with eight homers, 17 RBIs and 19 runs scored.
SAN DIEGO STEAL
Antonio Tarver took Roy Jones's title with a stunning Round 2 KO
On the morning of the Roy Jones-Antonio Tarver bout, promoter Don King announced Félix Trinidad's comeback fight, an Oct. 2 date with Ricardo Mayorga. Trinidad, off two years since failing to get...
Hey, congratulations, Jayson Williams.
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