December 10, 2001 | Volume 95, Issue 23

She was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. We would go everywhere together—games, golf courses, long drives to nowhere at all. I'm sure my wife was insanely jealous, but this hottie was worth it.

February 27, 1967

Poetic LicenseesSteve Rushin (AIR AND SPACE, Nov. 12) hit it light on the noseExplaining the Series (in poetry, not prose).It's scheduled that way so TV can make money.Yet ratings are down—like...

Letters

Here's hoping you enjoy the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in February, because if you're a U.S. taxpayer you're footing much of the bill. That's one significant finding in our investigative...

Will we still need them—and will we still feed them—when our heroes are over the hill?

Highlights

In new films John Turturro and Jon Voight get under the wig of Howard Cosell

Fox Sports Net's inaugural ACC Sunday Night Hoops featured high-quality midcourt camera work, but in the nightcap—Clemson versus Duke—there was too much fawning over the dated exploits of guest...

Our expert sorts through a quarterback quintet to make his Heisman pick

1990 Winner: Ty Detmer, BYU Backup QB on five teams in 10 seasons. Runner-up: Raghib Ismail, Notre Dame Has become serviceable NFL wideout.

America's quest for soccer respect at next June's World Cup will begin against a team led by the man whom U.S. coach Bruce Arena recently voted for as the 2001 world player of the year. On...

THIS WEEK LUMBER JACK COMPETITIONS

12Combined margin of victory in the five college football games last Saturday involving Top 10 teams.

Warrick Dunn's mother, Betty Smothers, was a police officer raising six children alone in a crammed Baton Rouge apartment when she was shot and killed during a 1993 supermarket holdup. Her dream...

Bill Clinton is still a divisive figure—at least in Ireland, where a statue of the former president in the town of Ballybunion is raising the hackles of U.S. golf tourists. The seven-foot-tall...

Restated•The Astros' commitment to calling their stadium Enron Field. Enron, an energy marketing and trading company that's paying $3.3 million a year for the ballpark's naming rights, filed the...

A bizarre race-fixing scandal rocks California

In case you were fooled, that's not really Woody Allen skating with the effortless grace of Dick Button on the Rockefeller Center rink in a new New York City tourism ad. The actual ice capades...

Francisco Gallardo, a midfielder for Seville of Spain's top soccer division, bit teammate Jose Antonio Reyes's genitals during a goal celebration.

EDDY CURRYNineteen-year-old Bulls rookie, on why he has struggled from the free throw line: "It's the balloons and all those things they're waving. They didn't have that in high school."

With a more consequential conflict in everyone's thoughts, Army trampled Navy

Low salaries and fast action: National Lacrosse League's 15-year success formula

Academics and athletics go hand in hand at the U.S. Olympic Education Center

Nicolas Escudé was the surprise star of the Davis Cup final in Australia

Akeya Terrell, GAHANNA, OHIOSoccerTerrell, a sophomore at Ohio Wesleyan, was named most outstanding defender in the Division III women's tournament for anchoring a defense that allowed one goal in...

Led by take-no-prisoners free safety Ed Reed, who leads the nation in interceptions, Miami boasts a defensive backfield second to none

A pair of Music City products saved their best for when it counted most to help Tennessee stun Florida in the Swamp

Catch Peter King's exclusive take on Sunday's action every Monday morning, while Dr. Z rates all 31 NFL teams each Tuesday at cnnsi.com/football.

They aren't the league's most talented team, but the Steelers keep hammering away and have the AFC's best record

The NFL

Bearing DownChicago is making a playoff push with a coach whose job may be on the line

•WORD ASSOCIATION

Look for Saints running back Ricky Williams, who is averaging 132.4 yards rushing and receiving this year, to push for a renegotiated contract or a trade in the off-season....

Chris-CheckingSpurs guard Antonio Daniels's drive to the basket is diverted by Warriors forward Chris Mills in a 94-83 win by San Antonio (page 74).

You had the feeling that sooner or later the 49ers would be good. They'd swallowed their medicine and taken their salary-cap hit; they'd gone about rebuilding the franchise in a sensible way,...

Texas BarbecueThe Longhorns burned a likely Rose Bowl bid and reignited a quarterback controversy

•YA GOTTA LOVE THIS GUYNorth Carolina State coach Chuck Amato is a persuasive recruiter, and last Friday he successfully pitched his program to a bowl committee. The Wolf-pack finished 7-4 (4-4 in...

For years these Florida sideline guys have kept the chains moving

Flaming HotCalgary's emerging star Jarome Iginla has muscled to the top of the league in scoring

Martin BrodeurDEVILSThe 29-year-old Montreal native has struggled this season (2.68 goals-against average, .891 save percentage through Sunday), but he has won two Stanley Cups and has led the...

Contrary to published reports last week, Avalanche center Peter Forsberg, who hasn't played this season and is in his native Sweden recovering from various injuries, has nor begun skating. In fact...

Despite the NHL's vigilance, players and teams bend rules in all sorts of dastardly ways to gain an advantage

Raised in France and only 19, Spurs rookie playmaker Tony Parker is way ahead of the game, running the team like a seasoned pro

Thanks to Utah politicians and the 2002 Olympics, a blizzard of federal money—a stunning $1.5 billion—has fallen on the state, enriching some already wealthy businessmen

$174 Million*

You would think that documenting the spending of federal tax dollars in support of the Salt Lake Olympics would be as easy as adding up your paycheck stubs to calculate your annual income. But you...

After 14 months and $4 million, the newly renovated Florida course opened to rave reviews

Q School SurpriseBoo Who?

This season Tiger Woods slammed, Annika Sorenstam shot 59, and everyone hit 300-yard drives, but 2001 will be best remembered as the year the bubble burst. The Sept. II attacks and a recession...

What do these players have in common?

Who is golf's player of the year: Annika Sorenstam or Tiger Woods?

Golf courses are like mountains: There's always one more to conquer. In the last year 524 tracks, 87% of them public, opened in the U.S. Here are my favorites from that group, plus one from overseas.

I'm bullish on all the fan-friendly changes you'll see on the Senior tour next season

•Right On, TryonTy is younger than the stepchildren of Blaine McCallister, who at 43 is the oldest member of the Q school class of '02.

Making up for a lifetime apart, Lee and Tony Trevino enjoyed some long overdue quality time at the Father/Son Challenge