March 12, 2007 | Volume 106, Issue 11

Frosh Princes With all due respect to Kevin Durant (Phenomenal Freshmen, Feb. 19), Greg Oden deserved the SI cover. Ohio State is near the top of the rankings, and Oden's dominating defense is the...

WITH MUCH of boxing moribund and title bouts unfolding in half-filled arenas, one boy is still golden. The already much-anticipated May 5 fight between junior middleweights Oscar De La Hoya...

WHO'S Hot

Which team has the best uniforms in the NHL?

An obscure pitcher became a rock star, and so-so football players struck gold

CLEM LABINE 1926--2007 CLEM LABINE HAD, in the words of his former Brooklyn Dodgers teammate Ralph Branca, "the right equipment to be a reliever." His sinker induced many a double play,...

SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, Heat center, on being voted into the All-Star Game despite missing 39 games: "I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in."

FEB. 27 Colin Montgomerie at the Johnnie Walker Classic in Phuket, Thailand

19, 207 Age, in years and days, of the Penguins' Sidney Crosby, who became the youngest NHL player to reach 200 career points last Friday.

The NFL is attempting to trademark the phrase "The Big Game" in order to control its use.

Charting the value of the Mona Lisa of baseball cards

With wads of money to spend on salaries, NFL teams made a few players happy, others jealous

MVP candidate Steve Nash reflects on a sporting life

METS PITCHER

In the NHL, almost every sweater has a story

Jesse Owens fares well in this unvarnished bio

THE NFL is already trying to fill Prince's purple shoes—it's looking for a performer for the Super Bowl XLII halftime show on Feb. 3, 2008. Among the candidates on a list that NFL VP of...

READERS WHO don't want to lose their idealized views of certain baseball legends (not to mention their lunch) would do well to avoid a pair of forthcoming works. Peter Golenbock's 7, what the...

What to watch and watch for

Brittany Riley FLOSSMOOR, ILL. > Track and Field Riley, a junior at Southern Illinois, broke the world indoor record in the 20-pound-weight throw with a toss of 80'7 1/2" at the Gladstein...

Tyreke Evans keeps suitors at bay

The scoop on the most promising players in next year's class

Health problems can't slow this national-record holder

Some outstanding performers from this year's championship swim season:

NO. 3 IS NO. 1 Two of the top five teams in the nation met in the Texas girls' 5A basketball final on Saturday, and third-ranked Rockwall broke through for its first championship, with a 59--54...

As global warming changes the planet, it is changing the sports world. To counter the looming environmental crisis, surprising and in novative ideas are already helping sports adapt

The next generation of sports facilities will be powered by alternative energy, incorporate parks into the designs, rely on mass transit, conserve water and be built with reusable materials--but...

Coach Billy Gillispie and point guard Acie Law IV--Lone Star State natives both--have transformed former hoops doormat Texas A&M into a rugged, clutch-shooting outfit that's never out of any...

Dance Cards

The Giants will be the first to admit that they overpaid for Barry Zito, but nobody--especially that other Barry--is complaining about the new vibe he's brought to the clubhouse

Spring Fling

In a market gone mad, the White Sox G.M. won't be signing off on any Zito-like deals, even if it means remaking his club

The passion for wrestling still runs deep throughout the state, where legends have returned to two storied college programs to restore their faded luster

Takedown

River of Humanity As more than 40,000 runners sped past the starting line of the Standard Charter Bank's Greatest Race in Hong Kong on Sunday, a slow shutter speed captured the initial flow. The...

SI's Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim, on the scene for the Florida raids, continue to report on the ongoing investigation that promises to rock sports

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Clomiphene Citrate: A prescription drug typically used for the treatment of female infertility, it is taken by male athletes to negate the effects of increased estrogen, a result of anabolic...

If to ask What might have been is the price of genius, Bill Walsh has paid his dues. But as he battles leukemia, the greatest football mind of his era is coming to terms with his considerable legacy

The NHL A big trade at the deadline was the latest move by a rookie G.M. who has revived the Islanders • How the Penguins convinced Gary Roberts to waive his no-trade clause

Snow Storm

The Red Wings potentially made the steal of the trade deadline in landing winger Todd Bertuzzi. He's thrilled to be in Detroit, and his new teammates are just as excited to have his forechecking...

Shaq is Baq

On second-year point guards Deron Williams of the Jazz (17.3 points and 9.2 assists at week's end) and Chris Paul of the Hornets (17.3 and 8.7):

Busch League

An insider on one of Cup racing's top teams dishes on the hottest topics in the NASCAR garage.

THE TEXAS TITANS sixth-grade basketball team is on its way to a tournament, so the kids do what they usually do. They board Kenny Troutt's chartered 737 jet (except for the times when they rent...

Except for Americans, South Koreans comprise the largest single group on the LPGA tour, yet their views are largely unknown. Here's what they think

Ping: Oh, no--not this old argument

WHO: Boo Weekley

No, thanks: I prefer to remain unplugged while playing golf

by JIM GORANT

Tiger Woods and Tim Finchem lead the Tour back to Washington, D.C.

Most of the headliners took a pass on the Honda Classic, but their understudies and a tough new venue combined for the show of the season