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DEEP IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
By Leigh Montville
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A Gift from On High
By Leigh Montville
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Roger CLEMENS - The King Of K's
By Leigh Montville
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"Barry Who?"
By Leigh Montville
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The Single Guy
By Leigh Montville
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Where's the Chief? Robert Parish left the game vowing never to return. But like his old teammates from Boston, he's no longer content to be on the sideline
By Leigh Montville
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Farewell, Teddy Ballgame
By Leigh Montville
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The X Factor The XFL drew big crowds and boffo ratings on its debut weekend, but can it keep the ball rolling with a mix of babes, bombast and barely adequate football?
By Leigh Montville
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The Mile High Club Denver's South Stands are the second home to a close-knit gang of diehards bonded for life by their passion for the Broncos
By Leigh Montville
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A Winner at the Finish Emil Zatopek had a storied distance-running career, but his life wasn't all glory
By Leigh Montville
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Sight for Sore Eyes After his face was crushed by a batted ball in last season's most gruesome play, Boston's Bryce Florie is returning to normal--and not ruling out a comeback
By Leigh Montville
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Double Take The surprisingly strong American swimmers got the biggest surprise of all when Anthony Ervin and Gary Hall Jr. won in a dead heat
By Leigh Montville
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Fast Lanes Australia's 17-year-old hero, Ian Thorpe, was the hit of a record-smashing pool party in Sydney, until others, including a bunch of Americans, began horning in on the fun
By Leigh Montville
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Stroke of Luck Emigrating from the Soviet Union was one of the best things that ever happened to backstroker Lenny Krayzelburg, the U.S.'s best hope for swimming gold at the Sydney Games
By Leigh Montville
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Field of Screams With all its bells and whistles and architectural quirks, Houston's new dinger-friendly Enron Field is every bit as thrilling as the Astrodome was dull. But, as the Astros are finding out, it takes some getting used to
By Leigh Montville
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The Long Haul Having reached yet another milestone--this time 3,000 hits--the enduring Cal Ripken Jr. can again concentrate on his strength, playing the game day by day
By Leigh Montville
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The Ghost Plane For three endless hours last October the entire nation watched, horrified but helpless, as a runaway jet carried Payne Stewart and five others to its terrible destination
By Leigh Montville
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The Curse Exorcised. Now What? After waiting 82 years, New Englanders are going to find a Red Sox World Series win isn't all it was cracked up to be
By Leigh Montville
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Scorecard Miami Miracle/Soccer Screwballs/Tough Love/Tony Perez
By Leigh Montville
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Chief Weapon Kansas City's athletic tight end, Tony Gonzalez, used some of his basketball skills to develop into one of the NFL's premier players at his position
By Leigh Montville
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Shall We Dance? When Cincinnati's John Copeland and Cleveland's Orlando Brown collide on Dec. 12, it will be the 10th time these Goliaths have performed their violent minuet in the trenches
By Leigh Montville
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A Bird's-eye View In Beantown THE RED SOX WIN THE WORLD SERIES SEPTEMBER 11 1918
By Leigh Montville
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The Great Alaska Shootout In a title game held before the state freezes over, Wasilla was snowed under
By Leigh Montville
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Inside College Football
By Leigh Montville
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Stalk Softly Even with enhanced sideline access, Monday Night Football's Lesley Visser will pick her spots
By Leigh Montville
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Tour De Amerique Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong used a triumphant whirlwind return to the U.S. to peddle a message of hope
By Leigh Montville
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Tiger Tales It may be showing its age, but when Tiger Stadium falls to the wrecking ball after this season, a lot of terrific memories will go with it
By Leigh Montville
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Miracle Worker Carolyn Peck won an NCAA title in her second year at Purdue. Her next trick: building a brand-new WNBA team in Orlando
By Leigh Montville
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Come Back, Howard Amid the legions of cookie-cutter sportscasters and clowning clones, we miss the guy we all loved to hate
By Leigh Montville
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The First Dance Game 1 of the opening round gave a rookie coach and four players who had never reached the postseason a tantalizing taste of what they had been missing THE SUPERSTAR Allen Iverson/76ERS
By Leigh Montville
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How Kevin Garnett changed the NBA—twice
By Leigh Montville
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Guardian Angel Mo Vaughn's spiritual impact on the Anaheim Angels may be more powerful than anything he does when he returns to the lineup
By Leigh Montville
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Not Fast Enough in Belfast At the world championships, an American is outrun by the Africans--again
By Leigh Montville
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Dynamic Tension SINCE THE MID-'80S, UCONN MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH JIM CALHOUN HAS BUILT A POWERHOUSE... ...WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT WOMEN'S COACH GENO AURIEMMA HAS DONE. SO YOU'D THINK THE TWO MEN WOULD BE FAST FRIENDS. THINK AGAIN
By Leigh Montville
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Mama's Boy Growing up with five older brothers and an ex-con father made TERRELL DAVIS tough. But it took a remarkable mother to give him the strength to transform himself from aimless delinquent to Super Bowl MVP
By Leigh Montville
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Nobody Saw It Coming Friends and family of Tito Lee, a 19-year-old Nashville football prodigy, never imagined he might kill himself, and they still don't know why he did
By Leigh Montville
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Golden Boy Michigan-bound quarterback and Yankees bonus baby Drew Henson--who also averaged 22 points in basketball and 4.0 in the classroom--is almost too good to be true
By Leigh Montville
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Heavy Hitter Fast and formidable, 275-pound linebacker Levon Kirkland was one free agent the Steelers couldn't afford to let go
By Leigh Montville
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Passing Time At 35 and with nothing left to prove in Canada, little Doug Flutie is taking one last shot at making it big in the NFL
By Leigh Montville
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Invisible Man Quick, who has scored more goals in the last four years than any other player in the league? It's the Capitals' Peter Bondra, hockey's best-kept secret
By Leigh Montville
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Good Old Boys
By Leigh Montville
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Called For Traveling APRIL 15 IS A DAY OF TORMENT FOR FOUR NBA REFEREES WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO TAX FRAUD AND LOST THEIR JOBS BECAUSE THEY CASHED IN AIRLINE TICKETS--AND DIDN'T REPORT THE INCOME
By Leigh Montville
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Hoop Dreams
By Leigh Montville
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Unbroken Spirit It took Orioles rightfielder Eric Davis's heroic battle with colon cancer to make fans appreciate that he's more than just a hugely talented player plagued by injuries
By Leigh Montville
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Petr the Great By winning the Australian Open--and his first Grand Slam singles title--at age 30, Petr Korda gave himself good reason to jump for joy
By Leigh Montville
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Hayley Wickenheiser
By Leigh Montville
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Slice Girls Serena and Venus Williams cut up some top foes--and did some cutting up themselves--in Australia
By Leigh Montville
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King Of The Worlds It took 26 years, but Bill Pilczuk of the U.S. finally made his mark as a champion
By Leigh Montville
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Wet and Wild A Chinese drug bust and a U.S. win in the 100 opened the worlds with a splash
By Leigh Montville
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Second Sight Although he has lived in darkness for nearly 30 years, Gordon Gund never lost the vision with which he guides a business empire that includes the Cleveland Cavaliers
By Leigh Montville
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