November 05, 2001 | Volume 95, Issue 18

Bred WinnersThis is how they finished in six of the Breeders' Cup races. The winners (from top): Val Royal, Jose Valdivia Jr. up, in the Mile; Squirtle Squirt, Jerry Bailey up, in the Sprint;...

JANUARY 30, 1956

Not Short SheetedWith all that is wrong in this world, and especially with more than a few of the athletes in it, I cannot resist commenting on your Ben Sheets article (Learning Curve, Oct. I). In...

Letters

People in sports don't seem to know the meaning of literal from a hole in the ground

Highlights

Tracking as many as 120 games at once, the Oregon Live website is high school football central

In the burgeoning partnership between sports and comedy on television, there is the good (Fox's Jimmy Kimmel and Jay Mohr), the not-so-good (ABC's Dennis Miller) and the ugly (Fox's Tom Arnold)....

Hey, Fox, this isn't the World Cup, it's the World Series, so why the tasteless "virtual" ads and promos behind the plate when there's copious commercial time between innings? It's virtually...

What to make of the rumors that some big league teams will soon disappear?

ANTHRAX AND SPORTSRETURN TO SENDER

Clothes may or may not make the man, but in sports, uniforms definitely make the team. Three NBA squads (Dallas, Detroit and Seattle) are unveiling new outfits this week, and if recent history is...

$14Price of a Kris Draper bobble-head doll in Detroit, $13 more than the Red Wings paid the Winnipeg Jets for center Draper in 1993.

Where you've seen himSoaring in for pregame ceremonies at numerous sporting events, most notably postseason games at Yankee Stadium. The bald eagle was scheduled for a fly-in at each of this...

In 1983, after watching Carl Lewis blow out the field in the 100 meters at the world championships, I cut my white man's Afro into the sprinter's signature flattop. The hairstyle didn't help me...

Crashed•Michael D. Copeland, of Hampton, Ga., through the front gate of boxer Evander Holyfield's Fairburn, Ga., estate in his Chrysler LHS. Copeland, a postal worker, told police that he was...

Warriors guard Gilbert Arenas may be a rookie in the NBA, but when it comes to high-priced goodies, he clearly knows his way around. Two weeks after declaring himself eligible for the draft last...

Even by Las Vegas's standards, it was an event-filled week. On Oct. 22, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf were married at their Vegas house in a private ceremony. Make that a very private ceremony....

The Arizona Republic published several baseball primers in which readers learned what a batting average is, when a reliever should be brought in and that the home team shouldn't be booed.

SHANNON SHARPERavens tight end, on why he avoids blocking: "You don't make any money if you block. They call you a servant if you block. You make minimum plus tips."

Bill Verigan, WYCKOFF, N.J.FencingBill, 17, won the junior and cadet épée championships at the Junior Pan Am Games by beating Athos Schwantes, 17, of Brazil in both title matches. Bill, who went...

Opening Tap

SFX Sports was supposed to be the ultimate in players' reps, but it's struggling

A legally blind runner and a football writer both look for a clear vision

Three former NFL coaches do the unusual: leave the pros for college

Neat looking but not much more: the latest stuff for hockey and bowling

Seven-footer Sharavjamts Tserenjanhor has become the first Asian Globetrotter

Using a trick play called 41 Flash Pass, Nebraska ended Oklahoma's winning streak at 20 and gave coach Frank Solich his biggest victory

Led by fireballers Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson, the long-in-the-tooth Diamondbacks kicked up their heels and jumped on the Yankees for a 2-0 World Series lead

For better or worse, the fate of the Bucs seems to rest on the words and deeds of All-Pro defensive tackle Warren Sapp

There's a new reality show on the air, starring the formerly hapless New York Islanders as bona fide NHL contenders

Horse Racing

Tiznow, and AgainA career-threatening injury couldn't stop a repeat winner in the Breeders' Cup Classic

Insult to InjuryThe Saints dumped the mighty Rams, then labeled their bitter rivals a finesse team

WORD ASSOCIATIONWith Zach Thomas, the Dolphins' undersized Pro Bowl linebacker

Cleveland's Butch Davis continues to break the mold. Last week, with the Browns in their bye week, he dispatched his coaching staff to college campuses for two days of scouting—an unheard-of...

Catch Peter King's exclusive online take on Sunday's action every Monday morning while Dr. Z rates every team each Tuesday at cnnsi.com/football.

After two years of wandering through the forests of offensive game-planning, have the Buccaneers finally found their identity in the thundering hoofbeats of a guy who used to be known as the...

Fit to Be TiedBy creating a three-way logjam in the ACC, Florida State got a chad up on a BCS bid

YA GOTTA LOVE THIS GUYFour days before Hawaii's home game last Friday against Fresno State, Warriors senior free safety Nate Jackson crashed on his motorcycle while trying to avoid a car that he...

SI polled the 117 major college teams on whether their offensive plays are called from the coaches' booth or from the sideline. The result was surprisingly close: 65 prefer the booth, 51 the...

Doug Williams has Grambling rolling over opponents again

If you've never heard of <b>Zab Judah</b>, who will fight to unify the junior welterweight title this weekend, then you don't know boxing's strangest family saga.

Here's a tip for young journalists: When you're covering a story as important as the World Series, be sure to bring 1) an acute sense of drama, 2) an encyclopedic knowledge of the game and 3) a...