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Golf Plus
GET WELL SOON LOREN ROBERTS SALVAGED HIS SEASON, BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT ON OTHERS AS THE TOUR TURNS FOR HOME
By Gary Van Sickle
A NEW DAWN THERE ARE NO MORE MANANAS FOR VALDERRAMA, WHERE ALL IS READY FOR THE FIRST RYDER CUP IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE
By Jaime Diaz
MAKING THE GRADE IF YOU CAN CORRECTLY ANSWER THESE 25 QUESTIONS, YOU'RE AN EXPERT ON THE RYDER CUP
By Gary Van Sickle
BULLETPROOF SCOTT HOCH HAS NOTHING TO LOSE AND EVERYTHING TO GAIN AT VALDERRAMA
By Michael Bamberger
A PERFECT MATCH
By Alan Shipnuck
DREAM TEAMS THE 24 PLAYERS WHO HAVE HAD THE BIGGEST IMPACT ON THE RYDER CUP
NEWS AND NOTES
BOTTOM LINES
COMPILED BY Gary B. Smith
RYDER REDUX
By Mark Calcavecchia
PAPER TIGER THE LESSON NOT LEARNED: THE U.S. TEAM IS NEVER AS GOOD AS IT LOOKS
By Alan Shipnuck
Faces In The Crowd
FACES IN THE CROWD
Catching Up With...
FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPION DANNY LOPEZ FEBRUARY 12, 1979
By JON WERTHEIM
Television
SI VIEW THE WEEK IN TV SPORTS
By John Walters
Reporter-At-Large
IN BALBOA'S BOOTSTEPS THE AUTHOR SLOGGED THROUGH PANAMA'S JUNGLE TO THE PACIFIC
By Franz Lidz
Books
A COUPLE OF CURVEBALLS TWO WRITERS WANDER THROUGH BASEBALL, ONE LOOKING FOR AMERICA, THE OTHER FOR HIMSELF
By Ron Fimrite
Pro Football
SOUND AND FURY ALLEGEDLY MELLOWED COACH MIKE DITKA WENT BALLISTIC ON HIS INEPT SAINTS AS THEY WERE BEING CRUSHED BY THE 49ERS
By Michael Silver
TUNA BOWL THE PATRIOTS HELD OFF THE JETS IN OVERTIME, BUT NOT BEFORE GETTING A LESSON OR TWO FROM THEIR OLD BOSS
By Austin Murphy
College Football
MAN OF THE HOUR WITH ITS NEWFOUND PRESTIGE ENDANGERED NORTH CAROLINA TURNED TO NO. 2 QUARTERBACK OSCAR DAVENPORT, WHO WAS FIRST-RATE
By Tim Layden
Putting Peyton in His Place
That’s what Florida coach Steve Spurrier has been doing to Tennessee’s Peyton Manning with his one-liners and what the Gators may well do to him on Saturday
By Tim Layden
Boxing
OSCAR WORTHY BY DOMINATING A GAME BUT OVER-THE-HILL HECTOR CAMACHO, OSCAR DE LA HOYA RETAINED HIS WELTERWEIGHT CROWN AND ENHANCED HIS STAR QUALITY
By Richard Hoffer
Beach Volleyball
SAND BLAST THE FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS OF BEACH VOLLEYBALL WERE A HIT, BUT THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SPORT'S FUTURE CONTINUES
By Michael Bamberger
Baseball
SOMEBODY'S PERFECT ALREADY THE GAME'S BEST DEFENSIVE CATCHER, FLORIDA'S CHARLES JOHNSON HAS BEEN ERROR-FREE THIS SEASON
By Tom Verducci
Inside The NFL
THE SEAHAWKS WENT BACK TO BASICS AND OVERWHELMED THE COLTS THE VIKINGS' WISE INVESTMENT GREEN BAY STOCK
By Peter King
THE INNER GAME DEFENSING DESMOND
By David Fleming
DR. Z'S FORECAST
By Paul Zimmerman
Inside College Football
A SMASH HIT BRIAN GRIESE GETS THE NOD AT MICHIGAN AND A BIG WIN OVER COLORADO EARTH TO ARKANSAS SOME NOT VERY SPECIAL TEAMS SUN DEVIL SURPRISE
By Ivan Maisel
DAUNTE CULPEPPER CENTRAL FLORIDA'S BIG-TIME PASSER
By Marty Burns
Boxing [bonus Piece]
THE LONG COUNT SEVENTY YEARS AGO, IN A HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BOUT IN CHICAGO, JACK DEMPSEY KNOCKED GENE TUNNEY TO THE CANVAS. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT MADE THIS THE MOST FAMOUS FIGHT IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPORTS
By William Nack
RYDING HIGH A ROUND OF REASONS WHY THE RYDER CUP IS THE BEST THING GOING IN SPORTS
By Rick Reilly
Departments
LETTERS
HOW ATHLETES PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES...THE SABRES RATTLE THEIR STAR...EMPTY SEATS IN NFL STADIUMS...TRANSPLANTED CRICKET RIVALRY...CARL LEWIS MAKES HIS FINAL RUN
By SCORECARD STAFF WRITER Kostya Kennedy EDITED BY Richard O'Brien AND Hank Hersch
HOUSTON, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 13, 1997 BETWEEN HALVES OF A FOOTBALL GAME, CARL LEWIS'S STORIED CAREER CAME TO A CLOSE
By Franz Lidz EDITED BY Richard O'Brien AND Hank Hersch
