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PICTURES AND WORDS TO SAVOR MANY OF THIS HOLIDAY SEASON'S SPORTS VOLUMES ARE ACTUALLY WORTH READING
By Ron Fimrite
NFL Extra
DOWN, NOT OUT DESPITE A RASH OF INJURIES, THE COLTS HAVE REMAINED COOL AND CONFIDENT--AND IN THE PLAYOFF CHASE
By David Fleming; John Walters; William F. Reed; RICHARD DEUTSCH
TO OUR READERS
By Bill Colson
RAY RHODES'S FIRE AND BRIMSTONE TOOK PHILLY TO THE BRINK OF DEFEAT AGAINST THE LOWLY JETS
By Paul Zimmerman
First Person
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND OR HOW ONE WOMAN FELT JOINING A TEAM AT THE MACHO NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB
By Grace Cornelius
Faces In The Crowd
FACES IN THE CROWD
Mountain Climbing
ALONE ON THE TOP OF THE WORLD AMONG ELITE MOUNTAINEERS ED VIESTURS STANDS APART
By Douglas Gantenbein
Television
SI VIEW THE WEEK IN TV SPORTS
By John Walters
Games
JOCKS' STOCKING STUFFERS NEW VIDEO RELEASES IN BASEBALL, HOOPS AND HOCKEY ARE MORE REALISTIC THAN EVER
By Albert Kim
Golf
DIFFERENT STROKES AROMATHERAPY AND YOGA HELPED MAHARISHI HIGH WIN THE IOWA STATE TITLE
By Franz Lidz
Sportsman Of The Year
The Chosen One
Tiger Woods was raised to believe that his destiny is not only to be the greatest golfer ever but also to change the world. Will the pressures of celebrity grind him down first?
By Gary Smith
THE BIG BANG TEXTBOOK TECHNIQUE IS ONLY PART OF THE REASON TIGER WOODS, THOUGH SLIGHT, PACKS SUCH POWER
By Jaime Diaz
Baseball
DEEP SIX IN A BLOCKBUSTER $89.1 MILLION SPENDING SPREE, THE MARLINS HAULED IN HALF A DOZEN FREE AGENTS, LED BY NATIVE FLORIDIAN ALEX FERNANDEZ
By Michael Farber
Pro Football
BIG D, VERY LITTLE O SPUTTERING ON OFFENSE AND BESET BY NEW DRUG RUMORS, DALLAS NEEDED STAUNCH DEFENSE TO BEAT THE PATS AND CLINCH THE NFC EAST
By Michael Silver
ON THE EDGE DENNIS GREEN FINDS HIS JOB IN JEOPARDY, THOUGH HE LED THE VIKINGS INTO THE PLAYOFFS FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN FIVE YEARS
By Peter King
IT'S JUST NOT THE SAME ALTHOUGH BALTIMOREANS STILL PINE FOR JOHNNY U AND THE OLD COLTS, THEY'RE GLAD TO HAVE THE RAVENS
By Mike Littwin
Boxing
BOWE BY LOW ANDREW GOLOTA AGAIN SANK TO THE DEPTHS TO SQUANDER A SOUND BEATING OF RIDDICK BOWE
By Franz Lidz
Pro Basketball
C'MON, ALREADY! AS THEIR IMPATIENT FANS GRUMBLE, THE REVAMPED KNICKS HAVE BEEN SLOW TO HIT THEIR STRIDE
By Phil Taylor
College Football
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THE MOVES WITH 22 MAJOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL PROGRAMS CHANGING COACHES, SCORES OF ASSISTANTS ARE SCRAMBLING FOR NEW JOBS
By John Garrity
College Basketball
SURFACE TENSION NEITHER THE PRESSURES OF FATHERHOOD NOR THE LURE OF THE NBA COULD MAKE KEITH VAN HORN FORSAKE UTAH--AND A PROMISE TO HIS DAD
By Tim Crothers
Inside The NFL
THE TERRIBLE TWOS SECOND-YEAR JAGUARS MAKE A PLAYOFF RUN SIMEON RICE SIMMERS IN THE DESERT WUERFFEL'S FUTURE IN QUESTION
By Peter King
A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO AVOID A STOMPING BY DAVID STERN, THE NEW WOMEN'S ABL SHOULD HEED THIS ADVICE
By Alexander Wolff
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LETTERS
EDDIE ROBINSON HANGS ON...THE WARRIORS' GIVEAWAYS... SULLIED AWARD NOMINEE STEPS ASIDE..."JERRY MAGUIRE"... BOSTON'S CROSS-COUNTRY SURPRISE...NCAA SOCCER
By Tim Layden; Leigh Montville WRITER/REPORTER Kostya Kennedy EDITED BY Jack McCallum AND Richard O'Brien
