August 29, 2005
Getting Ready
August 29, 2005
Has anyone else noticed that SI columnist Steve Rushin and San Francisco Giants pitcher Jason Schmidt are candidates for the clones feature you sometimes run in SCORECARD?
August 29, 2005
LETTERS
The best place in America to watch sports is anywhere in the Pacific time zone, a magical land in which major league baseball games begin at breakfast and every box score is in your morning paper...
OLN--once the Outdoor Life Network--wants to woo viewers from the glitzy "Worldwide Leader" with a macho lineup that looks a lot like ... the original ESPN
Days after Thomas Herrion led the 49ers in his college fight song, the big rookie offensive lineman was gone
Won
$112,000
By members of the Double A Mississippi Braves of corking his bat, Tracy McGrady. The Rockets swingman took BP with the team last week and hit a 390-foot shot over the fence in left center,...
Two player arrests cap a chaotic off-season for the UConn Huskies
Former Houston players allege they were forced to pursue less challenging majors
The singer (Now What) will be the grand marshal of the Busch Series Sam's Town 250 on Oct. 22 in Memphis
HIT
• Watch out Paul Tagliabue: Snoop Dogg is running a football league. The rapper, who last year coached the Rowland Raiders to the Orange County Junior All-American Football Conference championship...
The Ohio Senior Amateur golf championship was held in West Virginia.
MARCUS GILES
What to watch and watch for
In the tradition of SI's Sportsman of the Year, we periodically pay tribute in this space to men and women who represent the ideals of sportsmanship.
ON LIFE AS A NEW MEMBER OF THE BEARS (Muhammad is pictured with four grizzly bears at the Bronx Zoo.) The Bears weren't the first team I considered, but I felt this was the place that gave me the...
August 29, 2005
WHO'S HOT
August 29, 2005
Like boxers, these relievers insist on marching out to special tunes
August 29, 2005
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August 29, 2005
Saints Receiver
To change four tires in a flash, a crew must be in top shape
Kurt Busch's pit crew performs these drills on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the season
Haunted by their Super Bowl loss of two seasons ago and eager to prove that last year's struggles were an injury-driven fluke, Jake Delhomme and the Panthers are intent on winning it all--now
After missing the playoffs in 2004, these three teams also could rebound this year and get back into the postseason
August 29, 2005
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Swinging and singing, Atlanta's homegrown Jeff Francoeur leads a pack of precocious rookies who have the Braves tasting yet another division title
After getting booted out of the Big East, Temple is adding injury to insult by playing a backbreaking schedule that ensures yet another losing record
In determining which BCS member schools play the toughest schedules in 2005 and which ones play the easiest, SI kept one question in mind: Is a school scheduling competitive games or automatic...
For a brutal test of endurance with fiendish plot twists and a motley cast of characters, no reality series beats the U.S. Open, which is about to face the cameras in the wilds of Flushing Meadows
August 29, 2005 | GRANT WAHL
Even in the shadow of recent violence, two Arabs have become heroes of Israel's surprising soccer team. Next Saturday, in Switzerland, Israel could all but clinch a World Cup berth in the nation's...
August 29, 2005
The Week In Sports
Cal receiver DeSean Jackson is one of several standout freshmen expected to give their teams immediate help
Here are five other rookies who have impressed in practice.
Chad Pennington of the Jets impressed in his preseason debut, but it was his one misfire that most fired up his coach
Chad Pennington isn't the only quarterback the critics are closely watching. Here are four others whose maturity and consistency will be scrutinized well into the fall.
St. Louis is romping--again--but an epidemic of injuries threatens to undermine its World Series chances
The Cardinals aren't the only playoff contenders hampered by injuries. Here are four ailing players who are sorely needed as their teams make a final push toward the postseason.
SEPTEMBER CALL-UPS
SOX WEARING THIN?
O.k., you're Lancaster (Texas) High wide receiver Brandon Jackson and it's about time for the game to start. Shoulder pads? Check. Helmet? Check. Court-ordered electronic ankle monitor? Check.
August 29, 2005
The Natural
August 29, 2005 | MATT KILLEN
I can't buy a beer, but I can--and have--helped Kenny Perry win on Tour
August 29, 2005 | Chris Eliopoulus
[This article consists of an illustration -- see below.]
August 29, 2005 | MATT KILLEN
Jay Haas will be teeing it up more often on the senior circuit. He's not having much fun shooting 75s on the regular Tour.
August 29, 2005
Tiger's Alley
What golfers are talking about
The world's No. 1 golfer stuck around to win for the fourth time in nine tries at Firestone and clinch Player of the Year
With his fifth win--including two majors--Tiger has all but locked up Player of the Year, but he hasn't outplayed his two closest rivals by that much. Here's the season breakdown.
WHO: Tiger Woods
• READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? Everything but Terrell Owens. I can't say what I think of him. • T.O. AS A RYDER CUP CAPTAIN'S PICK He's below the bottom of the list. • FRED COUPLES He's playing well,...
"Insiders tell me there are two big rule changes on equipment coming: a ban on the belly putter and a decrease in the amount of trampoline effect in drivers."
Should Tiger Woods have stayed at Baltusrol through the finish of the PGA?
Jacques Gatera and his family cheated death in Africa. No wonder Jacques isn't sweating playing with the pros
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