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TABLE OF CONTENTS
November 10, 2003 | Volume 99, Issue 18
November 10, 2003 Being heavyweight champion of the world is no guarantee that you'll be on the cover (tough luck, Lennox Lewis), but it worked for these tough guys
November 10, 2003 Performance enhancers are a big story today, as they were back in 1969, while cocaine tainted a Final Four upset and caused the stunning death of a No. 1 NBA pick
November 10, 2003 Mirror, mirror, on the wall, why did a picture of Mike Schmidt and George Brett (right) run twice? The redundancy was intentional in that case (to celebrate the end of a midseason strike), but the...
November 10, 2003 Statisticians and fatalists know that everybody has to lose some time—but why does it happen so often for a team the week after it's touted on the cover of SI?
November 10, 2003 What prouder moment for a father than to see his son on the cover of SI? Unless, of course, Dad beat his boy to the punch, which has happened several times. Oedipus never dealt with anything this...
November 10, 2003 Not all the athletes SI has put on the cover play a sport. In fact some of our most popular subjects are famous for simply being uncovered. The SI Swimsuit issue (which will celebrate its 40th...
November 10, 2003 It's not one of those mythic numbers in sports—such as .400 or 56—but it's still an impressive run: 2,548 covers, from our first issue in 1954 to the one you hold in your hands right now
November 10, 2003 For more information on all SI cover, go to si.com/covers
November 10, 2003 The best shooters are as competitive as the athletes they cover, so SI helps them keep score (and, yes, this list includes Joe DiMaggio, but, no, it's not the Yankee Clipper)
November 10, 2003 That Illustrated doesn't just refer to photographs, which is why SI once had a cover by James Thurber
November 10, 2003 College Football
Like Ole TimesMississippi, led by Eli Manning, is atop the SEC for the first time in 40 years
Pittsburgh WR Larry FitzgeraldversusVirginia Tech CB Eric Green
SUGAR AND SPICE
November 10, 2003 Saturday's HeroesAustin Murphy's College Football Shakeout (Oct. 20) captures the innocent pageantry that still exists in what is becoming a big-business sport. In the end college football is...
November 10, 2003 LETTERS•Please e-mail us at letters@si.timeinc.com or fax us at 212-467-4049. Letters should include the writer's full name, address and home telephone number and may be edited for clarity and space.
Second BlessingIn leading an upset of the Rams, Tim Rattay proved the 49ers have a backup quarterback they can count on
Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback, every week at si.com/football.
TRADING E-MAIL WITH...
The oddsmakers' two AFC preseason favorites to reach the Super Bowl are in trouble. We can forget about the Raiders, but there's still some hope left for the Dolphins, provided they fix things in...
Dr. Z's Inside Football, every week during the season at si.com/football.
Boston is now Paul Pierce's team, but can he live up to Larry's legacy?
On Cavs rookie LeBron James, who in his first three games averaged 18.0 points, 7.3 rebounds and 7.7 assists:
Tonight on Queer Eye for the Sports Guy, our gay panelists make over a straight sports columnist and leave him looking like the South Beach Dinner Theater director.
November 10, 2003 Putting together this week's retrospective on 50 years of SI covers was like taking the Christmas decorations down from the attic: It made us sneeze (some of our office copies are turning to...
Kobe thinks he wears the pants in the family, Shaq thinks that he does. Kobe complains that Shaq doesn't call, Shaq complains that Kobe's aloof. Kobe threatens to walk out on Shaq, Shaq tells him...
After a year of marital problems, and a brutally close Tour de France, Lance Armstrong is steering toward a new course
The California fires touched the lives of athletes great and obscure
7Overtimes in last Saturday's Arkansas-Kentucky game, which the Razorbacks won 71-63; Arkansas has now played in the three longest games in Division I-A history.
November 10, 2003 SeveredIn an attack by a 12-to-15-foot shark, the left arm of 13-year-old surfer Bethany Hamilton. Last Friday, Bethany, a promising competitor who won a national open in August and also beat many...
Escaped
November 10, 2003 | Bill Scheft Good to be back. I was at Brian Billick's yard sale. Got two VCRs for a buck.
The 67-year-old screen legend, a Florida State running back in the 1950s, is the new host of ESPN Classic's Reel Classics.
November 10, 2003 Some events just sound fun—like, say, the Goldschlager Bar Olympics, in which good-looking women travel from town to town beating the locals at pool and darts. (Chugging the titular cinnamon...
November 10, 2003 A Florida rabbi is delivering a public lecture, titled The Curses of the Billygoat and the Bambino: Exploring the Talmudic View on Curses.
November 10, 2003 SIR RANULPH FIENNESFifty-nine-year-old cousin of actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes, whose New York City Marathon was his seventh marathon in seven days on six continents: "This has been enjoyable...
November 10, 2003 In what is considered the Super Bowl of not shaving, Germany's Karl Heinz-Hille (bottom left) won the sixth World Beard and Mustache Championships in Carson City, Nev. About 150 men—including 80...
WHAT TO WATCH AND WATCH FOR
•BETTOR TVAre Americans ready for a 24-hour channel devoted to gambling? The founders of Casino and Gaming Television are betting on it and aiming to be in a million homes next year, 20 million by...
November 10, 2003 Graham Harrell, ENNIS, TEXASFootballGraham, a senior quarterback at Ennis High, set a Texas schoolboy record for touchdown passes, with 152. This season he has 231 completions for 3,437 yards and...
Incoming Class
November 10, 2003 To submit a candidate for Faces in the Crowd, go to SI.com/faces.
DRAFT DODGERS: c. Guard Erick Strickland, now of the Bucks, went undrafted out of Nebraska in 1996. After starting the season in the CBA, Strickland finished 1996-97 averaging 10.6 points in 28...
In small towns across the prairie, there's no bigger event than EIGHT-MAN FOOTBALL
For more about sports in Kansas and the other 49 states, go to si.com/50.
The legendary Jayhawks center cut a wide swath through Lawrence
Kansans weigh in on sports*
On a scale of 1 to 100, how would you rate your state's enthusiasm for sports, relative to other states'?79.9Rank: 9th of first 17 states polled
To read an SI flashback story on Kansas' 1998 college basketball championship, view every Jayhawks cover or vote for the most important figure in Sunflower State hoops history go to...
Led by zealous coach Pete Carroll, USC is summoning up memories of Pac-10 glory and making an impassioned run at its first outright national title in three decades
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November 10, 2003 View large images of all SI covers and purchase your favorites from the Classic Covers collection through our searchable online database at si.com/covers.
Virginia Tech remedied 10 days of hell with one night of glory: by beating Miami
Take it from Wayne Gretzky. The player with the best chance to break his scoring records is Sidney Crosby, a 16-year-old center in Quebec juniors
The Ravens' Jamal Lewis, with a new maturity and sense of purpose, is leading the NFL in rushing—and stalking the single-season record
Sniping superstars, new cast members, a series in development. Must-see TV? No, just the Lakers getting started on what could be a great season
In their combined 94 years in the NBA, the eight Lakers with the most pro experience have had only five losing seasons: Rick Fox had four (with Boston) and Gary Payton one (with Seattle and...
Shaquille O'Neal suggested that the Lakers would be better off if Kobe Bryant dished more than he shot while recovering from knee surgery. Kobe's career stats suggest otherwise. In his seven...
There's no shortage of plot lines for a drama on the Lakers' leading lady
Well, except for being the U.S. Open champion and being ranked No. 1 in the world and dating Mandy Moore. Other than that, he's Everyman
More tennis coverage, including Davis Cup and tournament results and L. Jon Wertheim's Tennis Mailbag, at si.com/tennis.
Like his famous father, Archie, and younger siblings, Peyton and Eli, Cooper Manning had NFL-caliber talent. Then his body betrayed him
November 10, 2003 Yao Goes It, Kid?Rockets center Yao Ming, now a seasoned second-year man, greets Nuggets rookie Carmelo Anthony on his way to the basket during the teenager's second regular-season NBA game, a...
The Colts star sized up by his favorite high school receiver
You've come a long way, baby brother, and can go a lot further
November 10, 2003 From presidents to precedents, from Le Mans to LeBron, from lions to Tiger, the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has become a cultural icon. In the next 50 pages, answers to questions such as: Who's...
Why getting covered by SI is complicated
November 10, 2003 With SI's best faces forward, here is the magazine's Top 10*—the athletes who've been on the most covers, and all the contenders for the crown. To see all the covers of your favorites, go to...
November 10, 2003 WALTER IOOSS JR. (left) 229Neil Leifer 169Heinz Kluetmeier 119Manny Millan 115John G. Zimmerman 103John Biever 102Peter Read Miller 90James Drake 89John Iacono 80Ronald C. Modra 64
November 10, 2003 For SI's purposes, they're all good sports—some are just more popular than others. And in case you're wondering, bridge made the cover three times (below)
November 10, 2003 Little kids like to play dress-up, and sometimes big ones do too. In general SI supports such playful diversions...but if someone with a camera hands you a toga and laurel, run
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