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TABLE OF CONTENTS
November 27, 2000 | Volume 93, Issue 22
Out on Her OwnEstranged from the U.S. team, Kristina Koznick is still its best skier
The World Anti-Doping Agency recently declined USA Track & Field's bid to have WADA take over its embattled testing program. WADA instead chose to play an oversight role and is said still to...
God, it was electric in Tallahassee, Fla., last weekend. The anticipation. The tension. The fate of the free world teetering on a simple tally.
November 27, 2000 Marcus AerialistKnicks center Marcus Camby (23) and Clippers forward Derek Strong battle for a rebound in a game the Clippers won 78-74.
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November 27, 2000 A walk-off homer if there ever was one!—KAREN ROBINSON, Piano, Texas
November 27, 2000 Letters to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED should include the name, address and home telephone number of the writer. They may be mailed to The Editor, Sports Illustrated, 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y....
In their pursuit of more pay and perks, athletes might pause to ponder when enough is enough
Highlights
On the morning after The Golf Channel host Peter Kessler criticized the network's co-founder and chairman, Arnold Palmer, on air, he paid Palmer a visit at his offices at Bay Hill Club near the...
An online service helps high school athletes find colleges—and vice versa
An early-season college basketball commentators-versus-candor moment occurred in the Nov. 14 Indiana-Pepperdine game. At one point in the second half, the Hoosiers were 6 for 23 from the free...
The battle for this year's Heisman goes the distance
Damien Anderson, NorthwesternRunning back is nation's most prolific rusher (1,914 yards, 22 TDs) after Tomlinson.
November 27, 2000 | Don Yaeger Maybe we should expect as much in these highly politicized times: When a troubling accusation is made against the team of one of the most prominent athletes in the world, it's met with a...
November 27, 2000 | Don Yaeger 6 to 1Current odds set by Las Vegas bookmakers on the 0-11 Chargers finishing the season winless; those odds have been dropping steadily each week.
November 27, 2000 | Don Yaeger Every year, college hoops teams begin their seasons by playing exhibition games against barnstorming outfits with names like New York Gazelles and Reality Basketball. Some of this year's more...
November 27, 2000 SYNOPSIS: Chris O'Donnell stars as a mountain climber who leads a risky rescue effort up K2, the world's second-highest peak, to save the life of his stranded sister.
November 27, 2000 Banned•From the only swimming pool in Equatorial Guinea, Eric (the Eel) Moussambani, who captured the world's fancy by registering an agonizingly slow 100-meter freestyle time at the Sydney Games....
November 27, 2000 Q. How do you repossess an Olympic medal?
November 27, 2000 1) Grand marshal Mike Tyson and the horse he rode in on, at the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo Finals in Phoenix.
November 27, 2000 They may be heavyweights in the tennis world, but at heart, they're just a couple of giggly girls. As Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova (below) prepared for their doubles match at the Chase...
November 27, 2000 Dramatist Charles Randolph-Wright has been signed to write and direct Ball, a street basketball musical inspired by a Nike advertising campaign.
November 27, 2000 RICH GLASBasketball coach at Division II North Dakota, on motivating his players before last Friday's game with No. 4-ranked Kansas: "I told our guys, 'They put their pants on the same way we do....
Martina Hingis beat a weakened field in the last WTA year-end event in New York
Williams College proves that success in sports doesn't have to cost a fortune
Trek across the snowy tundra while staying in touch with your body
November 27, 2000 Few sports photographers documented the tumultuous 1960s as graphically as Neil Leifer did. Here, from his show in New York City's Pop International Galleries, are some of Leifer's favorite pictures.
November 27, 2000 | Charles Hirshberg The Boxer's Heartby Kate Sekules/Villard, $23.95
Expect some fresh faces to help the U.S. in the final round of World Cup qualifying
November 27, 2000 Guidance for those lost in sports
November 27, 2000 Tyler Ebell, VENTURA, CALIF.FootballTyler, a senior tailback at Ventura High, has carried 289 times for 3,537 yards and 52 touchdowns to become the fourth player in the state to rush for 3,000...
They are as old as college football itself. On Nov. 6, 1869, two intrastate rivals, Princeton and Rutgers, met in New Brunswick, N.J., in the first intercollegiate football game. Rutgers won 6-4....
Oregon State happily knocked Oregon out of the Rose Bowl and earned a share of the Pac-10 title for the first time in 36 years
Pranks a Lot
One Woody Dantzler was serene, the other frenzied. With Clemson on its own 32-yard line and trailing archrival South Carolina 14-13 with 59 seconds to go last Saturday in Death Valley, Woody...
The Apple Cup was easy pickings for the Huskies, who weren't about to let the outmanned Cougars spoil their run for the roses
Tacking Dummies
A quartet of unheralded receivers has helped make Drew Brees an All-America and clinch a Rose Bowl bid for the Boilermakers
Grassroots MovementDuring last year's Southern Methodist-Texas Christian game in Fort Worth, the visiting Mustang marching band strode onto the field for its halftime performance surreptitiously...
In another Sunshine State showdown the Seminoles scored a landslide victory over the Gators to move up in the BCS poll
Now Hear This
If Auburn commissions a commemorative video of last Saturday's 9-0 victory over Alabama, which put the Tigers in the SEC Championship Game against Florida, it ought to bring in the Weather Channel...
Fast-talking defensive end Hugh Douglas has taken his game to new heights and helped put the Eagles atop the NFC East
After his face was crushed by a batted ball in last season's most gruesome play, Boston's Bryce Florie is returning to normal—and not ruling out a comeback
The ball that struck Bryce Florie fractured his nose, cheekbone and orbital bones to the side and below the globe of the eyeball. Those bones, which acted as "crumple zones," absorbed enough of...
November 27, 2000 THE NHL
Power PlaysJaromir Jagr leaves no doubt as to who is running the Penguins
It's sad to see teams use fighting as a marketing tool. During the Flyers-Thrashers game last Friday, Turner South flashed this question on the TV screen for its nightly Internet poll: "Who do you...
Down to the WireThe outcome of the AFC East may hinge on who stays the healthiest
The Bucs are growing impatient, and rightfully so, with quarterback Shaun King, whose two interceptions and 91 passing yards crippled Tampa Bay in a 13-10 loss at Chicago. "He's a pro player,"...
My Two Cents
Ryan's HopeA couple more three-touchdown, one-interception games like the one Ryan Leaf had against Denver, and San Diego will be wondering if it should keep the guy who's been such a cancer. "I...
A tattoo on the back of which NFL player?
"We're not playing very good. That's what not very good teams do."—JAGUARS TACKLE TONY BOSELLI, before Jacksonville beat Pittsburgh on Sunday
November 27, 2000 Got a question for Rick Reilly? Chat with SI's columnist on Monday, November 27, at 2 p.m. EST. Or send a comment to his virtual mailbag at cnnsi.com/si_online.
When the NFL went to the 16-game schedule in 1978, a veteran scout told me, "They've turned it into a survival contest. The teams that are smart are the ones that spend big money on backups."
First in FlightKenyon Martin, the No. I draft pick, is at the top of a so-far undistinguished rookie class
Sonics G.M. Wally Walker had no idea how close his coach came to being canned. Embattled Paul Westphal walked into the locker room after a loss at Orlando dropped the team to 1-3 and told his...
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