February 2, 1998 Table Of Contents

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Golf Plus

Life Of The Party When Jesper Parnevik finally won, he did it where people know how to whoop it up

By Gary Van Sickle

Beast Of The East Tiger Woods ended what had been a lackluster week in Thailand with a monster comeback win

By Walter Bingham

News and Notes

Mr. Pro-Am

By Vince Gill

Bottom Lines

Compiled By Gary B. Smith

Odds and Ends Laura Davies's bet prompted us to ask, what are the chances of...

By Alan Shipnuck

Showing more grit than prowess, John Elway executed a brilliant game plan in the Broncos' stunning Super Bowl win over the Packers.

By Michael Silver

Unstoppable Terrell Davis decoyed and destroyed the Packers defense, giving Green Bay a migraine of its own

By Austin Murphy

Merely Human In a game that demanded perfection, Brett Favre was good, but not good enough

By Peter King

Marked Man The Broncos were determined not to let LeRoy Butler stop them--and they succeeded

By Paul Zimmerman

Tennis

Slice Girls Serena and Venus Williams cut up some top foes--and did some cutting up themselves--in Australia

By Leigh Montville

Nagano '98

He's The Mann Hermann Maier of Austria, a mason turned speed demon, is tearing up the World Cup circuit like no one in years

By Tim Layden

Hockey

Hockey's Little Helpers

The legal drug of choice in the NHL is Sudafed--not for cold relief, but for the on-ice boost it offers

By Michael Farber

Baseball

Fast And In Your Face Freewheeling Phillies fireballer Curt Schilling lives life the way he pitches--on his own terms

By Gerry Callahan

Pro Basketball

Secret Weapon Potent yet understated, the Grizzlies' Shareef Abdur-Rahim is the best NBA player you never see

By Phil Taylor

Inside The NBA

Net gains under a wiser Calipari Heavy trade winds Agents rate execs

By Jackie MacMullan

They Shoot, They Miss

By David Sabino

Who Is Zydrunas Ilgauskas?

By John Walters

Inside College Basketball

Undermanned Cincinnati just keeps winning What happened to Minnesota?

By Kelli Anderson; Dana Gelin

Matchup Of The Week

By Seth Davis

Kevin Turner ILLINOIS GUARD TRIUMPHS OVER ADVERSITY

By Franz Lidz

Inside The NHL

The Devils' McKay makes the transition from fighter to scorer Don't overlook Bowman Poor Peake

By Kostya Kennedy

In The Crease

By Pierre McGuire

Pro Football [bonus Piece]

Presumed Guilty When the three-year-old son and former wife of NFL special teams star Bennie Thompson were savagely murdered the night before the Pro Bowl, police were sure they had another O.J. on their hands

By William Nack

Ultimate Losses, Ultimate Victory John Elway discovered that being a winner in the Super Bowl is hard to handle too

By Rick Reilly

Departments

Letters

Canton's Joyous New Class...It Ain't the Cash--Yeah, Right ...The Splendid Splinter Hangs in There...Duchess of Dunk Gets Her Trade...Super Bowl XXXII in Sydney

By Peter King; Leigh Montville; Jack McCallum Edited by Jack McCallum and Richard O'Brien