January 21, 2008 | Volume 108, Issue 2

Pictures Perfect Your Pictures of the Year were awesome. I also liked the juxtapositions within the issue, which told a subtler story: Between news of the Mitchell Report and a column on the New...

Tony Romo's season is over (blame the Giants, not Jessica). Can we relax now?

WHO'S Hot Chris Bosh What did the Raptor do for an encore after dropping in 40 points to beat the Knicks? He scored 38 while playing 55 of 58 minutes in Toronto's double-OT win over Portland....

Which player gets the least out of the most talent?

Won By Bode Miller (below), the 27th World Cup race of his career—the downhill at the Lauberhorn course in Wengen, Switzerland, on Sunday. The victory tied Miller with Phil Mahre for the most by...

LAST JUNE, the Devil Rays honored the world champion 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers and invited three of the club's mainstays—Hall of Famer Duke Snider and pitchers Carl Erskine and Johnny Podres—to throw...

$21,897,501 Career prize money won by Lindsay Davenport after her first-round victory at the Australian Open, the most ever by a female athlete.

A Fairview Township, Pa., bank robber who wore a disguise was convicted after witnesses recognized the NASCAR-themed Rusty Wallace license plate on his getaway car.

IKE HILLIARD Buccaneers receiver and former Giant, after forgetting the Bronx when asked by a reporter to name New York City's five boroughs: "I was only there eight years."

Remembering the climber who conquered Earth's final frontier

TO BORROW from Dickens, these are the best of times in Boston, they are the worst of times in Miami. The Red Sox are world champs and the Pats and the Celts look to be headed in that direction....

GIANTS DEFENSIVE END

A racing legend's revealing autobiography

The former heavyweight champ is a contestant on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice

What to watch and watch for

Marcus Wright SAN ANTONIO > Football Marcus, a senior running back at Reagan High, rushed for a city-record 3,374 yards and scored 45 touchdowns, was named the Texas Class 5A offensive player of...

SI, SEPT. 10, 2007 At the end of a disappointing Women's World Cup last summer, U.S. captain Kristine Lilly (below) was coy about her future. The 36-year-old forward—who earned her first cap when...

The Next Chapter

On a near perfect weekend of postseason football, nowhere were conditions more Favreable than in frosty Green Bay, where the Packers plowed through the Seahawks and into the NFC Championship Game

Pulling together against a familiar foe, the Giants punched out Dallas and headed for Green Bay

Squelching skeptics and their own demons, the Chargers pulled off the unlikeliest of upsets to roll on

Inside the Matchups

The Jaguars were the latest to learn that whatever your plan, the Patriots have an answer

SUNDAY, LAMBEAU FIELD

SUNDAY, GILLETTE STADIUM

Posting Up

What do you get when a violent Pacific storm collides with a massive underwater mountain range? Nine-story faces that four top big-wave surfers could ride into history

Full-Court Press

The NHL Why one of the Canucks' identical Sedin twins is an All-Star, while the other is not • The Bruins' Lucic hits hard enough to change a game • Will San Jose's Marleau be traded?

The Bruins may have stolen a player in the 2006 draft: Second-rounder Milan Lucic is a big (6'4", 220 pounds), physical winger who's improving under the tutelage of Hall of Fame power forward Cam...

Split Decision Why is one of the Canucks' identical Sedin twins going to the All-Star Game while the other stays home?

Big Cheese Wisconsin's Brian Butch, once dismissed as the Big Ten's most overrated player, has matured into a conference star

ON CHURCH-AFFILIATED campuses, steeples press against the skies like directional arrows: This Way to Salvation. At the football stadiums, bleachers function as corrugated church pews, where the...

Tough Sledding Seahawks safety Brian Russell (25) and Packers receiver Ruvell Martin collided and slid through the snow as Brett Favre's fourth-quarter pass fell incomplete at Lambeau Field last...

Bill Murray's Beach vacation

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Off-season Lasik surgery is all the rage--or is it?

The last two weeks have been difficult, to say the very least, for Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman (left). Her ill-chosen on-air words earned her a two-week suspension and a world of negative...

WHO K.J. Choi

Kelly Tilghman's two-week suspension from Golf Channel is:

Tiger's response to the L word gives a clue to who he really is

The 2008 Barclays is moving from Westchester to Ridgewood

TOO MANY teenagers at the mall." That's what I told my wife when she wanted me to run over to the Valley Heights Shopping Center for a Presidents' Day card. "They hang around outside Urban...