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TABLE OF CONTENTS
January 13, 2003 | Volume 98, Issue 2
January 13, 2003 Hail, SportsmanWhat an outstanding Sportsman of the Year (Dec. 16). In selecting Lance Armstrong you have honored a man of incomparable ability and indomitable spirit. Lance is a model for...
January 13, 2003 LETTERS
A decade from now, college football games will be played during halftime of marching-band competitions. For we are witnessing, at this very moment, an unprecedented interest in all things...
January 13, 2003 One year from today a lot will be missing from the world of sports
Baseball's most dominant relief specialists rate inclusion at Cooperstown
76Sacks absorbed by Titans rookie quarterback David Carr, an NFL record.
January 13, 2003 RetiredBy the Shanghai Sharks, the number 15 jersey worn by Yao Ming during his five seasons with the club. The 7'5" Rockets center, who averaged 23.4 points and 15.4 rebounds for the Sharks from...
January 13, 2003 Died
January 13, 2003 | Bill Scheft Before we begin, Congrats to Shaquille O'Neal who married his longtime girlfriend. Are you like me? Are you thinking that's the only ring he'll get this year?
The 40-year-old former Knicks coach took a break from his job as a TNT analyst to chat about the NBA and himself.
January 13, 2003 You have no doubt heard of Claude Vorilhon, the French self-appointed prophet better known as Raël: He claims, so far without supporting evidence, that his 55,000-member organization, Clonaid, has...
January 13, 2003 USC players and coaches asked for autographs from O.J. Simpson when he showed up at a Trojans practice a few days before the Orange Bowl.
January 13, 2003 It took 37 seconds and 1,275 pounds of explosives to reduce Cincinnati's Cinergy Field to a 45-foot-high pile of rubble and dust. The Queen City razed the former Riverfront Stadium, which was...
January 13, 2003 MARTINA NAVRATILOVATennis legend and gay activist, on Damir Dokic, WTA pro Jelena Dokic's father, who said he might kill himself if he found out his daughter was a lesbian: "It's a good thing I'm...
January 13, 2003 For complete NFL playoff coverage, including the latest news and stats, plus analysis from SI's Peter King, Michael Silver and Dr. Z, go to cnnsi.com/football.
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January 13, 2003 JANUARY 10-16
Monday Night Woes, Air Lobo
January 13, 2003 Caroline Cretti, CARBONDALE, COLO.Cross-countryCretti, a Williams College freshman, won four of her final five races as she led the Ephs to their first Division III title. Williams won the team...
January 13, 2003 Mario's Magic
January 13, 2003 BETTER THAN AVERAGE: b. Former Lemieux teammate Jagr has averaged 1.30 points per game, second best among active players. Wayne Gretzky is second alltime, with an average of 1.92 points per game.
January 13, 2003 Precision passers took center stage on a wild-card weekend that saw the 49ers and Steelers overcome huge deficits, the falcons pull off a chilling upset and the Jets streak to stunning blowout
A blown (and bizarre) final play by New York capped San Francisco's miracle comeback
January 13, 2003 About Face!Browns defensive back Chris Akins shows Steelers receiver Antwaan Randle El a new way of looking at things during their AFC wild-card game on Sunday (page 44). Akins was flagged for a...
49ers at Bucs
After making history in Green Bay, Atlanta's Michael Vick goes full speed into Philadelphia
Falcons at Eagles
Improbable quarterback Tommy Maddox led an improbable rally from the brink of defeat, giving Pittsburgh second life in its bid for the Super Bowl
Steelers at Titans
New York cruised to victory on the amazing arm of Chad Pennington. Next stop: Oakland
Jets at Raiders
Admitting he had let his team become too lax, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones lured Bill Parcells back to the sideline, but can the two egos coexist?
Or can it get worse? Not even a coach who has won nine NBA titles has a solution to the disharmony that's plaguing the Lakers
January 13, 2003 | Austin Murphy
Here are the 24 players—and one coach—who shone brightest in the postseason
After four memorable decades of college coaching, Lefty Driesell abruptly calls it quits
Markus Naslund, Brendan Morrison and Todd Bertuzzi of the Canucks have become the NHL's most potent (and fun-loving) line
SI senior writer Michael Farber's top 10 trios in hockey history (left wing-center-right wing)
...in which the 18-year-old high school phenom and soon-to-be multimillionaire goes to L.A. and studies the pampered life
January 13, 2003 College Basketball
Triple ThreatKyle Korver of surprising Creighton is no longer just a three-point artist
He's Michigan State's 6'3" sophomore star, and at week's end he was ranked in the Big Ten's top 10 in seven statistical categories, including scoring (eighth, 16.0 points a game), steals (tied for...
I. Cincinnati's Conference USA dominance is near an end. The Bearcats have earned at least a share of every regular season championship since the league was formed in 1995-96, but they've appeared...
No Simple AnswerAllen Iverson's Olympic dreams may be Larry Brown's nightmare
On The Trail Blazers, who at week's end had gone 10-1 after a 10-11 start:
Coach Rick Adelman is optimistic that Peja Stojakovic—crucial to the Kings' title hopes—has turned the corner on his recovery from plantar fasciitis in his right foot. Though Stojakovic has missed...
Shooting BlanksThe Devils are among the conference leaders, but their new coach is feeling heat over his team's lack of scoring
Hockey legends Scotty Bowman and Bobby Orr feel the NHL should eliminate the red line, a move that would open up the game. (International and college games are played without a red line.) Bowman...
There is slow: the imperceptible yellowing of the Mona Lisa. There is slower: the inches-per-year movement of the great glaciers. And then there is football game official Terry Porter.
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