August 12, 1996 Table Of Contents

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Perspective

A HALL OF FAME CAREER PITCHER DAVE BALDWIN EARNED HIS SPOT IN COOPERSTOWN AFTER HE BEGAN TO PAINT

By Joanna Cohen

Focus

UNUSUAL TOLERANCE FOR PAIN CANDI ORSINI CHEERFULLY TAKES HER LUMPS IN THE FLICKS AND ON THE RUGBY FIELD

By L. Jon Wertheim

Golf Plus

AFTER THIS WEEK'S PGA, AN UNTESTED NEW TRACK IN KENTUCKY WILL NO LONGER BE...

By Bradley S. Klein

FACES IN THE CROWD

MISSING MAJOR AT THE PGA, VICTORY WOULD BE VALHALLA FOR TOM WATSON, WHO HAS WON EVERY OTHER GRAND SLAM TITLE

By Jaime Diaz

U.S. WOMEN SHINE...FITTIPALDI MULLS RETIREMENT... LOJINKS ON THE LINKS...A YANK ON THE BBC...A LOOK AT "TIN CUP"...QUIET LIFE IN THE BULLPEN...THE JOE SMITH CASE

EDITED BY Jack McCallum AND Richard O'Brien WRITER-REPORTER Kostya Kennedy

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS BY WINNING HER SECOND MAJOR OF THE SEASON, LAURA DAVIES PROVED SHE'S NO. 1 IN THE U.S. AS WELL AS IN EUROPE

By William F. Reed

MIRACLE MAN

By Ed Hinton

BASKETBALL BLOKE

By Alexander Wolff

GREEN OF DREAMS TIN CUP, OPENING AUG. 16

By William Gallo

Track And Field

The Man

'I am rarely shocked by my own performance,' Michael Johnson says as he looks back on his record-shattering 200-meter run. 'And I'm shocked.'

By Kenny Moore

THRILLS AND SPILLS FOUR FLEET CANADIANS AND A DIVA FROM FRANCE TURNED THE FOCUS OF THE WEEK FROM HISTRIONICS TO HEROICS

By Tim Layden

Men's Basketball

SLAM DUNK RARELY CHALLENGED, A JOYLESS DREAM TEAM CRUISED TO THE GOLD AND REEMPHASIZED THE STILL-YAWNING TALENT GAP BETWEEN THE U.S. AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

By Phil Taylor

Women's Basketball

POWER GRAB THE AMERICANS WRAPPED UP THEIR 60-0 GOLD MEDAL RUN BY ROUTING THEIR OLD NEMESES, THE BRAZILIANS

By Alexander Wolff

Boxing

ENDING ON A HIGH DAVID REID'S KNOCKOUT FINISH SALVAGED ONE GOLD MEDAL FOR THE U.S. IN A TOURNAMENT THAT GAVE THE SPORT ANOTHER BLACK EYE

By S.L. Price

Diving

FU'S GOLDS AFTER HER TWO VICTORIES IN ATLANTA, 17-YEAR-OLD FU MINGXIA OF CHINA IS ON COURSE TO BECOME THE BEST EVER IN HER SPORT

By Leigh Montville

Soccer

Score One For Women

The Americans' gold medal victory over China was one for the record books, and one for the next generation of female athletes

By Michael Farber

HOW 'BOUT THEM DAWGS? GEORGIA FANS LEARNED A NEW TRICK--ENJOYING SOCCER-- WHEN OLYMPIC FOOTBALL CAME TO THEIR TURF

By ROY BLOUNT JR.

Wrestling

HOLDING THEIR OWN STILL STRUGGLING WITH THE MURDER OF DAVE SCHULTZ, MEMBERS OF THE U.S. TEAM WON THREE GOLDS

By Rick Reilly

Statistics

ODYSSEY OF ODDITIES SEVENTEEN DAYS, 10,750 ATHLETES AND 197 NATIONS PRODUCED A FLURRY OF FASCINATING FACTS AND FIGURES

By Steve Rushin

Centennial Park

Flower Power

Blossoms raised to honor the bombing victims, the people retook Centennial Park and set in place the legacy of these Games

By Gary Smith

Reflections [bonus Piece]

FROZEN IN TIME FIFTEEN SI WRITERS RECALL THEIR MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN ATLANTA

LET THE GAMES BEGIN AGAIN

By S.L. Price

SURVIVORS IN THE WATER

By Leigh Montville

THIRSTING FOR A CHOICE

By Rick Reilly

MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD

By Tim Layden

FROM FAME TO INFAMY

By Gerry Callahan

AN UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE

By Richard Hoffer

CARRIED AWAY WITH EMOTION

By E.M. Swift

IN THE FACE OF DEFEAT

By Kenny Moore

A STORY THAT HITS HOME

By Peter King

A BREAK IN THE ACTION

By Gary Smith

THE BEST GAME YOU NEVER SAW

By Phil Taylor

NO MISSION IS IMPOSSIBLE

By Michael Farber

THE PRINCE PLAYS POP-A-SHOT

By Alexander Wolff

THEATER OF THE ABSURD

By ROY BLOUNT JR.

THOSE BUSES WERE A BUST

By Steve Rushin

Ravenous For Football

To Baltimore Colts fans who had been singing the blues for 12 years, the Ravens' preseason opener was sweet music

By Kelly Whiteside

WITH HIS WHIRLWIND JULY, GONZALEZ HAS BLOWN AWAY HIS CRITICS TRADE WINDS GENERATE HEAT IN THE PENNANT CHASES

By Tim Kurkjian

SEE Y'ALL IN SYDNEY THE GLITCHES AND GARISHNESS OF ATLANTA ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE REPEATED BY THE BETTER-ORGANIZED AUSSIES

By E.M. Swift

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