April 21, 2008 | Volume 108, Issue 16

Troy Meets World Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki is a rare talent. His leadership is a big reason why the Rockies made it to the World Series last year, and why Colorado fans are so excited...

All athletes test themselves, but sometimes we play too close to the edge

WHO'S Hot

Which team will win the WORLD SERIES?

Qualified For the LPGA Hall of Fame with a win at the Corona Championship in Morelia, Mexico, Lorena Ochoa (above). At 26, she is the second-youngest player to amass the required 27 points—the...

KYRYLO FESENKO Jazz center, to a writer whose media credential was dated 20008: "Were you sent here to kill us all?"

According to former big leaguer Jesse Barfield, baseball may be losing female fans because players wear baggy uniforms that don't show off their "sculpted bodies."

Five years after its last title, UConn is the team to beat in '09

$48 million Potential value of the seven-year contract the Indians gave Fausto Carmona last Thursday.

NEXT YEAR the Yankees will move out of the House That Ruth Built and into the House That Gino Castignoli Helped Build. And because of that, the Red Sox--Yankees rivalry took another bizarre turn...

76ERS FORWARD

Many favorites emerge in a new Derby film

KOBE BRYANT sent a shiver up the spines of Lakers fans last week by posting an Internet video of himself leaping over a speeding Aston Martin. (Bryant did it without a stunt double, but with some...

What to watch and watch for

Brittney Reese GULFPORT, MISS. > Track and Field Reese, a junior at Mississippi, won the long jump (22'2 1/4") at the Division I indoor championship, becoming the first Lady Rebel to win a...

BY NOW, NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw (below) should be accustomed to criticism: For years retired players have lambasted him for failing to provide adequate health...

The Interview Chris Paul HORNETS GUARD

PRIME TIME PLAYER Relive Gary Player's victory in the 1978 Masters.

The Celtics and Lakers would make a dream Finals (even if not everyone will admit it)

Rating the playoff teams by how dangerous they are in a close game's final seconds

SPORTS IN REAL TIME. ALL THE TIME. ALL FREE.

SPORTS IN REAL TIME. ALL THE TIME. ALL FREE.

Diminutive forward Nathan Gerbe delivered a mighty performance in Denver to lead Boston College—which had lost heartbreakers in the last two title games—to its third national championship

SPORTS IN REAL TIME. ALL THE TIME. ALL FREE.

Five college players who'll make the biggest impact in the NHL

BIG RED MACHINE Revisit Nebraska's championship years of the 1970s.

Baseball Alltime saves leader Trevor Hoffman is struggling big-time, but he's far from the only closer with issues • One reason for the Tigers' disastrous start

Closing Costs April has been the month of the blown save; for several would-be contenders, that could haunt them come September

Prognosticators who envisioned a 1,000-run offense for the Tigers failed to account for the difficulty that Detroit's NL imports would face adjusting to life against the tougher competition in the...

What Next? The improvisations of rededicated rightwinger Alex Kovalev keep even his Canadiens teammates guessing

How about the courage of Wild forward Branko Radivojevic? In Game 2 of the Minnesota-Colorado series he hurt his right knee early in the first period, returned to play in the second, reinjured the...

Guessing Game Monba's victory in the Blue Grass raised more questions than it answered as an uneven field heads to Churchill Downs

Expect the meteoric Big Brown to be the favorite on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs. But not here.

Tough Circles For Indy racing stars Dario Franchitti and Sam Hornish Jr., the NASCAR learning curve has been a steep one

It wasn't quite as dramatic as the Miami Dolphins' 13-game winless streak last season, but Hendrick Motorsports' inability to reach Victory Lane over the first seven races of the season was the...

IT WAS Saturday night at the mottled two-story building in Augusta called Sand Hill Grill, with its two upstairs windows cracked open like sleepy eyes and swing music tumbling out its double doors.

Twist and Shout Devils goalie Martin Brodeur (center) was separated from his headgear during a collision with Rangers left wing Ryan Callahan in Game 3 of their first-round NHL playoff series on...

The future tried on its green jacket last week as the next generation of golf fan was in full frolic all over Augusta National

Everything was going according to plan for Phil Mickelson until he was done in by a seasonlong bugaboo—a bout of poor putting

Each year during Masters week, there's no better place to keep tabs on everyone who's anyone in the game than a table in the Augusta National clubhouse

Boo Weekley is hardly the hick he's made out to be, but during his first trip to Augusta National he certainly had a unique way of looking at things

Of cool 3-D, cold Brits and the Good Humor Man

WHO Trevor Immelman

"No question, Lorena Ochoa is the best golfer on earth right now. Sadly, because she's a woman, she doesn't get her due acclaim."

Have the Lords of Augusta taken the fun out of the Masters?

Until this year, no first-round leader had won the Masters since Ben Crenshaw in 1984, although none have missed the cut. Mike Donald followed his opening 64 with an 82 in 1990, but made the cut...

There's a Nicklaus record that Tiger never will touch

A Masters record six lefties teed it up at Augusta National

Was Augusta National just too tough even for the best players or, on Sunday afternoon, did the largely untested contenders simply succumb, lemminglike, to the enormity of the moment?

Four fine books illuminate baseball's past, future and physics

LeBron scores as a lawyer in a new TV spot

A controversial suit is helping swimmers make history

THE TERM New York driver evokes a Travis Bickle--like figure fueled on rage and mired in traffic, one hand on the horn, the other in a less-than-helpful gesture to fellow motorists. But with the...