Cubs picked to win World Series on this week's Sports Illustrated cover
This week's Sports Illustrated picks the Cubs to win it all.
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Jet Stet: An SI editor earns his wings with the high-flying Breitling team
A top SI editor goes along for the ride with the aerial athletes of Breitling Jet Team and manages to keep his wits and his lunch about him while going over 400 mph and in close quarters with other fighter planes.
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SI Vault: Lightning strikes twice to win first Stanley Cup
The Tampa Bay Lightning, energized by their long suffering fans, won their first Stanley Cup on two goals by Ruslan Fedotenko: a 2004 Sports Illustrated Vault story.
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From the Vault: Stephen Colbert and his Nation save the Olympics
This story originally appeared in the Dec. 21, 2009, issue of Sports Illustrated. Subscribe to the magazine here or buy back issues here. The Berlin Wall is
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At 100, Fenway Park is baseball's oldest venue -- and still its best
Baseball's newest venue is officially open, and it's impossible to look at Marlins Park in Miami without thinking, That place looks like fun. The fish swimming
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AL East Hot Stove preview: Big moves could re-shape division
2011 Results: 97-65, first place in AL East, lost ALDS to Tigers Runs Scored/Runs Allowed: 867/657 Pythagorean Record: 101-61 Pending Free Agents: RP Luis
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Champs to chumps
Some things are easy to predict: Juan Gonzalez will eventually find his way to the disabled list. Baseball's bigwigs will find new and creative ways to look
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Search for saves
Philadelphia general manager Bobby Clarke deserves credit for being proactive -- the trade deadline is weeks away -- but the X-Filers at NASA are still closer