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| February 20 |
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"Daniela Glistens In Bermuda" |
Contents - Back From The Depths (Maryland is a basketball power again, ending a long decline); Queen For A Day (Nicole Bobek surprisingly reigned at the figure skating nationals); Dead Serious (Tour funnyman Peter Jacobsen is playing the best golf of his life); A Whole New Tack (Shelley Beattie and Dawn Riley lead the all-female America-3 crew); February Frenzy (The four days of NBA All-Star madness even included a game); Seems Like Old Times (A new generation of stellar goaltenders has emerged in the NHL); Basking In Bermuda, Captivated By Costa Rica (The swimsuit set follows the sun to a divergent pair of resorts); The Only Way To Go (Our intrepid scooterborne reporter took Bermuda by storm); Like Fish Out Of Water (Costa Rica was, for one bedeviled party of fishermen, a paradise lost); Stormin' Mormons (Coach Roger Reid and sons make BYU basketball a family affair); Terrible Two (Tennis's Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva are a match); Donnelly's Arm (Irish boxing champ Dan Donnelly died in 1820, but his limb endures); The General Whose Army Never Wins (While losing to the Globetrotters, Red Klotz won over the world) Departments - Letters; Faces In The Crowd; Scorecard; Sports People; Inside The NHL; Inside High School Basketball; Inside The NFL; Point After |
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| March 6 |
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"Player Of The Year - North Carolina's Jerry Stackhouse" |
Contents - Enough? (A brutal bout left both Gerald McClellan and boxing badly hurt); The Sting Is Back (Propelled by Larry Johnson, the NBA Hornets are buzzing once more); Less Than Great (Wayne Gretzky, in a subpar season, is feeling heat over King trades); Who's On First, Joe (Cardinal manager Joe Torre sees replacement players as excess baggage); Over Easy (For Surya Bonaly the figure skating has never been the hard part); House Afire (North Carolina's Jerry Stackhouse is our choice for Player of the Year); An Unrivaled Rivalry (North Carolina and Duke tip off again this week in sports' finest feud) Departments - Letters; Faces In The Crowd; Scorecard; Point After |
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| March 20 |
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"It's Super Michael...Or is it?" |
Contents - What Goes Up... (Michael Jordan is thinking about donning the Bulls' colors once more); Fair Or Foul? (A hotly disputed story suggested cocaine led to Celtic Reggie Lewis's death); Time Is Running Out (SI steps up to the plate and presents its plans for ending the baseball strike); Cat Nipped (Kentucky got an NCAA top seed by winning a dramatic SEC tournament); Trimming The Sails (Three U.S. boats and four others remain in the hunt for the America's Cup; Forrest Grier (Gumptious Rosey Grier, the former NFL star, just keeps stumbling into fame); The Post With The Most (Writer's cramp may be all that can stop Rebecca Lobo, No. 1 UConn's fan favorite); Giant Sucking Sound (That's what Canada's distraught hockey buffs have as their game heads south) Departments - Faces In The Crowd; Letters; Scorecard; Inside Horse Rcing; Point After |
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| April 10 |
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View Ed O'Bannon Cover |
Contents - The Final Four (UCLA whipped Arkansas to win its first NCAA championship since 1975.); Storybook Ending (Trailing Tennessee late, Connecticut got into gear to finish a charmed season.); Home Alone (Her attacker walks free, but Monica Seles still lives in troubled isolation.); Brushback (A high hard one from a judge ended the strike, but the basic dispute remains.); Special Report: Campus Gambling Part II (The bookies catering to - and profitting from - most college gamblers are fellow students.); Puttin' on the Dog (Big, bad pets help athletes build tough images, then turn them back into little boys.) Departments - Letters; Faces In The Crowd; Scorecard; Inside The NBA; Inside College Hockey; Point After |
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| May 1 |
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Cal Ripken Jr. |
Contents - A Wing And a Prayer (The Spurs are soaring, but there's scant faith in their title chances), Now Hear This (Coach Pat Riley still drives his Knicks - often to distraction), Rod Is Watching (Video vigilance helps NBA Veep of Violence Rod Thorn catch perpetruators), Fat Chance (Axel Schulz didn't have a prayer against George Foreman), First And Long (The Panthers got a few good men in the NFL but don't expect miracles), Looking For Respect (Even after leading Nebraska to the top, Tommie Frazier has a lot to prove) Baseball '95 - The Best (A celebration of the players who are masters of the fundamentals), Down The Line (Stretching from home plate to the outfield wall, two simple white stripes provide a unique perspective on the game), The American League (SI predicts that the Yankees will win in the East, the Indians in the Central and the Mariners in the West), Close To The Heart (A grandmother's love put Cleveland's Kenny Lofton on track), The National League (Our choices for the division titles are the Braves in the East, the Reds in the Central and the Dodgers in the West), Drive For Show, Pitch For Dough (Atlanta ace Greg Maddux leaves nothing to chance on the mound) Departments - Faces In The Crowd, Letters, Scorecard, Point After |
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| June 19 |
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"Red Hot. Clyde Drexler lifts the Houston Rockets toward their second straight NBA title" |
Contents - High And Mighty (The rampaging Rockets stunned the Magic in the NBA Finals); Back In The Swing (Steffi Graf and Thomas Muster completed comebacks in the French Open); Going All Out (With an odd mix of players, the Red Sox lead the American League East); Triple Double (Thunder Gulch won the Belmont, but the crown went to D. Wayne Lukas); 'Now It's My Team' (Barry Switzer hopes his new fire can overcome the Cowboys' loss of talent); A Leap Of Faith (The Red Wings' patience with Keith Primeau led to the Stanley Cup final); The Shakedown (Owners threaten to move their teams if stadium demands are not met); Diamond Heirs (Felipe Alou became a baseball star, and the game became his family's legacy) Departments - Letters; Faces In Thr Crowd; Scorecard; Inside Baseball; Point After |
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| July 24 |
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"A Behind The Scenes Look At America's Hottest Sport" |
Contents - A Day At The Races (For NASCAR's multitudes, there are 33 pilgrimages this year); Martinez Mania (Ramon's no-hitter is the latest feat by one of Baseball's Martinezs); An End Too Soon (Dartmouth grieved over the suicide of star athlete Sarah Devens); A Major Breakthrough (Little-known Swede Annika Sorenstam won golf's Women's Open); Luckless In Seattle (The ill-starred Seahawks are the NFL's most troubled team); Road Test (The Road Hole at St. Andrews is the world's hardest par-4); Babying Himself (Colt Marshall Faulk has rushed right into the lap of luxury) Departments - Letters; Faces In The Crowd; Scorecard; Inside Baseball; Point After |
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| August 7 |
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Cal Ripken Jr. |
Contents - Man Of Iron (A private look at Cal Ripken Jr. reveals a tender side to baseball's toughest player), Drawing First Blood (Carolina beat Jackonsville in a meeting of the first NFL expansion teams in 19 years), Back In Full Swing (Monica Seles remained focused as she made a triumphant return to tennis), Special Report: Credit Risk (A tiny Bible college figures in what may be a big NCAA scandal), Vexed By Vertigo (U.S. Olympic platform diver Mary Ellen Clark has been laid low by dizziness), One More Drive (John Elway hopes a new coach and offense will help him earn a Super Bowl ring), Words To Win By (Hoping to fire up their forces, companies pay for sports celebraties canned wisdom) Departments - Letters, Faces In The Crowd, Scorecard, Inside Baseball, Point After |
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| August 21 |
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View Mickey Mantle Cover |
Contents - Baseball - Mickey Mantle (The legacy of the last great player on the last great team in the last great country.), The Wild-Card Crunch (Players have certainly caught the fever, but this new kind of pennant race is perplexing.) Golf - Nothing To Sneeze At (Steve Elkington overcame allergies and made hay on the greens to win the PGA Championship.) Track and Field - Super Michael (Sprinter's Michael Johnson conquered the worlds with three blazing runs for gold medals.) Pro Football - Up In The Air (After a dismal off-season, the AFC champion San Diego Chargers can't seem to find their feet.) Boxing - The Big Question (Actually, three: Who is Mike Tyson? Does he have anything left? Will this week's fight prove anything?) Departments - Letters, Faces In The Crowd, Scorecard, Inside Baseball, Point After |
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| September 4 |
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"Which of today's stars are locks for the Hall of Fame? Dan Marino for sure. But who else? To find out, we polled the men who do the voting" |
Contents - Golf - Encore! Encore! (Tiger Woods, with a full array of shots, won a second straight U.S. Amateur); College Football - Out Of The Blue (Michigan grabbed a stunning last-second victory over Virginia); Baseball - Lone Star Fear (Texas fans are scared to watch as the Rangers fight for a wild-card spot); Pro Basketball - Be Like Mike...(...or go with the union. That's the difficult choice that NBA players face) NFL '95 - Eye On The Prize (Few of this year's stars can count on being elected to the Hall of Fame); Big (Linemen on the far side of 300 pounds are fast becoming the rule); Two Of A Kind (A lot is expected of little guys Glyn Milburn and Eric Metcalf this year); Scouting Reports (Dr. Z picks the season's winners and losers in the NFC and AFC); The Key Link (A quarterback's relationship with his coach can lift or ruin a team); A Matter Of Style (Drew Bledsoe and coach Bill Parcells of the Patriots have great chemistry) Departments - Faces In The Crowd; Letters; Scorecard; Inside The NFL; Inside Baseball; Point After |
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| September 11 |
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"Iron Man" |
Contents - Pro Football - Gift From Heaven (The Pats were blessed by a rookie in their opening win); The Man (Eagle Ricky Watters is pushing to become a star) Boxing - A Blow For Britain (Frank Bruno won his nation a heavyweight title) Baseball - Now You See It...(Tim Wakefield and Hideo Nomo regained their magic); A Native Son's Thoughts (About Baltimore, baseball and Cal Ripken, Jr.) College Football - Flattened (Notre Dame lay in ruins after a loss to Northwestern) Departments - Faces In The Crowd; Letters; Scorecard; Inside College Football; Inside The NFL; Point After |
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| October 16 |
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"Yankee Killer - Junior Hits One Out For Seattle - And For Baseball" |
Contents - Baseball - Five Days Of Hardball (A Mariner comeback capped the Division Series) Horse Racing - All Fired Up (Cigar blazed to victory in the Jockey Club Gold Cup) College Football - Upsets And An Upstart (Upsets became the norm on a wild weekend, with Kansas leading the way); (How far can Northwestern go after road wins over Notre Dame and Michigan?) Pro Basketball - Mother Knows Best (Top NBA pick Joe Smith has a home court advantage: his mom, Letha) Hockey - The Comeback Kid (After sitting out the last 18 months, Mario Lemieux is healthy again) Pro Football - Hard Hits (While quarterbacks drop like flies, angry defenders take big hits to the wallets); (Squish the Fish: That's what the Colts did in rallying to beat the Dolphins) Olympic Sports - The China Syndrome (Chinese athletes and coaches are becoming subject to Western ills) Departments - Letters; Faces In The Crowd; Scorecard; Inside The NFL; Inside College Football; Point After |
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| November 6 |
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Atlanta Braves celebrating |
Brave Hearts (Braves win the World Series), Red November (Nebraska football), Don't Look Back (Horse racing with Cigar), Zeier On Fire (Cleveland Browns football), Par For The Course (Billy Mayfair wins the Tour Championship), Bitter Medicine (Team doctors), Skins Game (Tattoos in football), 'This Isn't Babysitting' (basketball coach Lou d'Almeida) |
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| December 4 |
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"Battle For The Browns - Art Modell Sucker-Punched Cleveland, But The City Is Fighting Back" |
Contents - College Football - Going Bowling (When Michigan stunned Ohio State, everything came up roses at Northwestern); (Florida maintained its national-title chances by whipping Florida State) Figure Skating - Love Story (Sergei Grinkov's death was the last chapter in one of sport's great romances) Pro Football - What Parity? (Aftger 11 straight Super Bowl losses, the AFC is far from matching NFC powers); End Of An Epic (The rivalry between the the Steelers and the Browns came to a tame close); (Cleveland won Round 1 in the battle to hold on to its beloved Browns) College Basketball - Five Beats One (Arizona taught Georgetown about team play in the Preseason NIT); Pro Basketball - Prime Mime (King Mitch Rickmond can mimic anyone, but on the floor he's best as himself) Marathoning - The End Of The World (The author raced to justice for a fellow Olympian imprisoned in Euthiopia) Departments - Faces In The Crowd; Letters; Scorecard; Inside The NFL; Inside College Football; Point After |
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| December 11 |
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View Riley-Shula Cover |
Contents - The Joint Is Jumping (The surprising Heat, now coached by Pat Riley and featuring Alonzo Mourning at center, is on the rise), (A Florida icon for 25 years, Don Shula may take the fall for for the failed season of his pricey Dolphins), (The Hurricanes got whacked by the NCAA, but do not look for the penalties to doom their football program); Ghost In The Ring (Azunnah Nelson won Gabriel Ruclas's title, but the man who haunted Ruclas was Jimmy Garcia); Peter The Great (The U.S. Davis Cup win over Russia was stars, stripes and Sampras forever); Another World (Corey Pavin won the $1 million first prize in Sun City, where life is too good to be free); All-Purpose Weapon (Steeler Kordell (Slash) Stewart, a passer/runner/receiver, is disarming Pittsburgh's opponents); Little Magic (Steve Nash doesn't get much TV time at Santa Clara, but he may be the nation's best point guard); Tell Laura I Love Her (That's what the author said as he checked out on his wife for five days of sports viewing on DirecTV) Departments - Faces In The Crowd; Letters; Scorecard; Inside The NFL; Point After | 1 2 |
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| December 18 |
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"Sportsman of the Year - Cal Ripken Jr." |
Contents - Pro Football - Stopped! (A dubious play call and another loss put the heat on Cowboy coach Barry Switzer) Pro Basketball - Agony Of D-Feat (Dissension and drink threaten to turn the Mavericks' season into a debacle) Hockey - King No More (A spat with his coach ended goaltender Patrick Roy's stellar reign in Montreal) College Basketball - Battle Royal (UMass's Marcus Cambry beat Tim Duncan of Wake Forest to become the top big man) Soccer - Out Of Reach (Duke kept Virginia from a fifth straight NCAA title, only to be shut out by Wisconsin) Pro Football - Long Way To Go (Playing home games a fur piece from their fans hasn't deterred the Panthers) Pro Football - Invisible Man (Jet Carlton Haselrig vanished after slipping back toward addiction and despair) Sportsman Of The Year - Hand It To Cal (Cal Ripken Jr. surpassed all others in diligence and generosity of spirit) Pro Basketball - High Hopes (Only NBA giants Manute Bol and Darryl Dawkins went head-to-head in the CBA) Scrabble - Your Words Against Mine (Seemingly civilized, championship Scrabble is actually a cutthroat world) Departments - Faces In The Crowd; Letters; Scorecard; Inside The NFL; Inside Baseball; Inside College Football; Point After |
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