November 09, 1998 | Volume 89, Issue 19

When Kevin Pendergast arrived at Notre Dame to study and play soccer in 1989, he was a suburban kid from well-to-do Simsbury, Conn., who thought over and under were just prepositions. He was a...

THE NHLNew rules, same old scoring scarcityIs Kings' Legace building a legacy?A ref's ref

Elusive GoalsThe league's moves to promote more scoring haven't done the trick

ALEXANDRE DAIGLERight wing, FlyersNo, we're not talking about reports that he was dumped by Pamela Anderson. But Daigle, who was the No. I pick in 1993 but failed miserably in Ottawa, has been...

The Flyers want a reliable right wing to play on their top line with Eric Lindros and John LeClair, they have their eyes on reacquiring Tampa Bay's Mikael Ronberg (below), whom they traded before...

Ordinary PeopleAndy Katzenmoyer and Dre' Bly no longer dominate on defense

•Washington (5-3) at Oregon (6-2)

Special Teams Players

USC QUARTERBACK

Prince of PranksNaseem Hamed's hollow Halloween win was more trick than treat

Just one more reason I wish the Mariners were a National League ball club: We'd get to see Mark Grace.—WAYNE SAIL, Marysville, Wash.

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The Dating GameRedrafting the schedule will be a headache

WORD IS that the Clippers will hold off until after the lockout ends to announce their coach, thereby banking his salary until then. L.A. has narrowed the field to three: Chris Ford, recently let...

Rush to JudgmentThe early-signing period has increased, not eased, pressure on recruits

Nick of TimeBacks to the wall, the Bucs had their finest hour against the Vikings

1. And then there was one. By virtue of their 33-26 come-from-behind win over the Bengals, the Broncos became only the 10th NFL team to start a season 8-0. Of the previous nine, seven reached the...

Chad Brown is on the move in Seattle's blitz-happy Okie

Oronde Gadsden goes to the head of the Miami receiving line

Jason Wening, Ann Arbor, Mich.SwimmingWening, 24, a double below-the-knee amputee, broke the world record for his disability class in the 400-meter freestyle with a time of 4:48.14. He also holds...

Once a year, as a service that I've just established, I pick the entire week's card for you. Every game. The amazing thing is, the price of the magazine stays the same. Why do I do it? Because I...

In Madison, Tenn., where 1,200 Peterbilt truck workers have been walking the picket lines for six months, they love the NBA labor dispute. It gives them something to finally laugh about.

DON'T MISS

16.0The overnight rating for last Sunday's 49ers-Packers game on Fox, making it the highest-rated NFL afternoon game this season.

NBA players are threatening to boycott interviewers from NBC and Turner Sports when their season starts because they feel the networks are siding with the owners by paying rights fees during the...

Put them all together, and the eccentric tidbits of sports TV add up to a heavenly lineup

October 15, 1973

It's only a matter of time before the peripatetic Muhammad goes to the mountain

•That MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch pit preening featherweight champ Prince Naseem Hamed against his own ego in a fight to the finish.

10.5Distance, in feet, that the power alleys at Tropicana Field will be moved back (from 359½ to 370) after Devil Rays' general manager Chuck LaMar accurately guessed that they were closer than...

YESLet's hope a desire not to tarnish the record set by homer hero Mark McGwire (above), an androstenedione popper, isn't clouding the vision of the officials who are investigating grounds for a...

The top four teams in the Bowl Championship Series standings are undefeated. The lowest-ranked of these is Kansas State, thanks primarily to the platter of cupcakes it has feasted on. But down the...

A new MJ sneaker gets U.S. design patent number 400,000; Airness adopts high profile at NBA talks, sparring with owner Abe Pollin. Stay tuned....

The Harriet Carter catalog company sells a $14.98 "toilet fishing game," complete with 35-inch-diameter vinyl pond, seven-inch-long plastic "fish" and 14½-inch-long rod, that "lets you land a...

MIKE MILBURYNew York Islanders general manager, on Paul Kraus, the agent for free-agent forward Zigmund Palffy, who has spurned several Milbury offers: "It's too bad he lives in the city. He's...

Departments

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and CNN team up on the Internet to offer up-to-the-minute sports news. Cram for the upcoming college basketball season: Check out our exclusive conference previews, vote in our...

Much has been made of the money spent to acquire defensive-line help during the off-season, but here's how three other eye-opening personnel moves have played out.

There were some notable breakthroughs on the seventh annual SI Midseason All-Pro team, chosen last week in a poll of 24 NFL pro personnel directors and scouts. The Seahawks' Michael Sinclair beat...

The rest of the season is set up just the way the NFL likes it: More than half the games left on the schedule have playoff implications. Here are a handful of critical matchups.

One day in January 1997, Randall Cunningham got a call at his company in Las Vegas, which installs marble and granite counters, from someone in NFL Properties, the league's marketing arm. The guy...

Here are 10 players—none of whom is named Peyton or Ryan—who have risen to prominence in the first half of the season.

For the first time in a generation, the AFC is not just the better conference but clearly the dominant one. In each of four consecutive seasons, from 1977 through '80, the AFC enjoyed at least a...

Flight NightPrince Naseem Hamed's entrance was scarier than his punches on Halloween, when he retained his WBO featherweight title by mostly running from challenger Wayne McCullough (118).

Before this decade, Kansas State had a winning percentage of .373, the worst in college football. The Wildcats' percentage under Bill Snyder in the 1990s, when compared to that .373, makes them...

Travis Taylor is a proud pop and a proud Gator who helped Florida humble Georgia

Spring Fling: The USGA announced last week that it will adopt a test to measure the springlike effect in clubheads. According to USGA executive director David Fay, "The best players will be...

One Shot Shy

What do these players have in common?

PGASubaru Sarazen World Open, The Legends at Chateau Elan, Braselton, Ga.It may be the silly season, but the $360,000 that awaits the champion isn't funny money

Here's what golf needs to do to hit a home run as a spectator sport

A win by revitalized Hal Sutton perfectly fit a Tour Championship and a community, in transition

Presidents Cup hopeful Lee Janzen got stuck once again on number 13

If The World Ranking is any yardstick, the U.S. should have no problem running its Presidents Cup record to 3-0 against a badly overmatched International team. Every member of the U.S. team, a...

Order of BattleColin Montgomerie fought off two rivals to win a sixth straight money title

Who should be the PGA Tour's player of the year?

IF THE 1999 Ryder Cup were held today, the European roster would feature half a dozen players few Americans have heard of. Here are the leading qualifiers for the 12-man teams, which will square...

13TOP 10 finishes this year by Tiger Woods, whose Tour-leading total was one better than that of runner-up Jim (Mr. Consistency) Furyk.