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Golf Plus
Never A Doubt Slump? What slump? Tiger Woods wondered after his win in Atlanta
By Alan Shipnuck
Makeup Call By declaring war on CBS, Ben Wright was finally able to make peace with Valerie Helmbreck
By Jaime Diaz
Coming Out Smokin' All systems are go for John Mahaffey, who is fired up now that it's time to hit the Senior tour
By John Garrity
News & Notes
By Seth Davis Edited By Kevin Cook
Hollywood Hits
By Ron del Barrio Edited by Kevin Cook
Tall in Texas Yup, Corey Pavin is king of the Tour's Lone Star swing
By Rick Lipsey
This Week
By Cameron Morfit
That's No Excuse You're not inconsistent, my friend. You're no good
By Jack McCallum
Catching Up With...
Bobby Grich, California Angels infielder October 20, 1986
By Paul Gutierrez
Baseball
Kick Start Dismantling opponents with fearsome efficiency, the Yankees have run up baseball's best early season record in 14 years
By Tom Verducci
Flame Thrower
The Cubs' Kerry Wood, who's only 20, used a searing heater and sharp breaking balls to strike out 20 Astros in perhaps the most dominant pitching performance in baseball history
By L. Jon Wertheim
NBA Playoffs
High and Mighty Piling up points, pounding the boards and passing shrewdly, Shaquille O'Neal proved to the Sonics that's he's both an irresistible force and an immovable object
By Phil Taylor
NHL Playoffs
More Power To Them Quicker whistles in cases of obstruction have resulted in a sweeping change in the way hockey is played. In this postseason, a team must be quick, with a lethal power play, or it will be dead
By Michael Farber
Soccer
In Good Hands Toughened by his seven years as goalkeeper in England, unflappable Kasey Keller holds the fate of the U.S. soccer team
By Ian Thomsen
College Football
Long-Running Longhorn Dreadfully locked and eager to please, Ricky Williams of Texas has decided to return for a senior-year rush at the Heisman and the record book
By Tim Layden
Inside
Inside THE WEEK IN SPORTS
Inside The NHL
Inside The NHL
By Kostya Kennedy
In The Crease
By Pierre McGuire
Inside Baseball
Inside Baseball
By Tim Crothers
Enjoy It While It Lasts Wunderkind fireballers, like Kerry Wood, often burn out early
By Keith Olbermann
Baseball's A Game Again The death of his infant son turned Melvin Nieves's values right side up
By Paul Gutierrez
Inside The NBA
Inside The NBA
By Jackie MacMullan
Bonus
The Muscle Murders
When Bertil Fox, a former Mr. Universe, was arrested for double homicide last year, he became only the latest accused murderer among hard-core bodybuilders, whose subculture is a volatile mix of fragile egos, economic hardship and anabolic steroid abuse
By William Nack Special Reporting By Don Yaeger And Teagan Clive
The Longest Yard for Doak Walker
By Rick Reilly
Departments
Give the Man a Big Hand By being an impatient patient, Patrick Ewing forged a remarkable comeback
By Kelli Anderson
Leading Off
Hitting below the Gelt Puny purses force many good fighters to moonlight
By L. Jon Wertheim
An Explosive One-Two Punch Brothers Casey and Ryan Powell lead Syracuse's quest for another NCAA title
By Seth Davis
An Auto Body Experience
By Loren Mooney
Letters
This Breakup Is the Talk of the Town When the river thaws in Nenana, Alaska, a pile of money changes hands
By Michael Finkel
Scorecard
By Gerry Callahan; Tom Verducci Edited By Jack McCallum And Richard O'Brien
Faces in the Crowd
SI View The Week in TV Sports
By John Walters
