
CONTENTS
16
YOUTH IS SERVED
Jennifer Capriati, 13, handled five more-experienced foes—and the media—in her pro tennis debut
BY DAVE SCHEIBER
22
A TASTE OF THE TOUR
Chris Couch played hooky from school to sample the perils and pleasures of professional golf
BY CHARLIE NOBLES
24
SHE CUT A FINE FIGURE
The compulsories are dead as dodos, but Jill Trenary exploited them one last time at the worlds
BY E.M. SWIFT
30
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES
Remember when a conference basketball tournament meant something? The Ohio Valley's still does
BY ALEXANDER WOLFF
36
NOT-SO-PAT HAND
The once flush Patrick Division of the NHL is now a study in mediocrity from top to bottom
BY JAY GREENBERG
72
SILENT SPRING
With the baseball lockout stretching into its fourth week, the signs of spring were mostly unhappy ones
78
THE EYES HAVE IT
Fans in Phoenix are horning in on bespectacled Kurt Rambis's success with the shining Suns
BY BRUCE NEWMAN
90
ABOUT FACES
Six Faces in the Crowd bear witness that satisfaction still can be derived from merely playing the game
BY DOUGLAS S. LOONEY
DEPARTMENTS
6
LETTERS
11
SCORECARD
82
MOTOR SPORTS
86
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
103
FOR THE RECORD
104
POINT AFTER
COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY CARYN LEVY
PHOTO
RONALD C. MODRA
LOCKED OUT: As SI went to press, another week of fruitless negotiation had gone by and the baseball shutdown had reached 26 days at Scottsdale (Ariz.) Stadium, the San Francisco Giants' exhibition-season home, and the 24 other spring training sites in Florida and Arizona (page 72).