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Rob Deer, Free-swinging Slugger April 27, 1987
By Jeff Pearlman
Baseball
Making His Mark With an electrifying jolt, Mark McGwire passed the Babe and caught Roger to set the stage for the record breaker
By Tom Verducci
Record Smasher
With this mighty swing, Mark McGwire sent his 62nd home run over the fence and himself into a special place in America's pantheon
By Tom Verducci
Sam The Ham Ebulliently stalking the Babe and Big Mac, bashing baseballs and merrily mangling his adopted lingo, the Cubs' fan-friendly Sammy Sosa is having the time of his life--on and off the field
By Steve Rushin
Try These On For Cys Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez are neck and neck in the American League Cy Young race. Too bad nobody's paying attention
By Michael Farber
Touching 'em All It started with four homers in the first four games of the season. Here's how Mark McGwire's quest for 62 played out, blow by blow, during the 1998 season
Pro Football
Running Start Using a high-octane offense to compensate for their sputtering defense, the 49ers beat the Jets and served notice that they'll be tough to stop
By Michael Silver
Growing Pains Colts quarterback Peyton Manning showed flashes of brilliance in his NFL debut, but his inexperience led to a Dolphins victory
By Marty Burns
Turning Over A New Leaf
By Austin Murphy
College Football
The Good Hands People Led by a corps of unheralded and inexperienced receivers, Washington lit up eighth-ranked Arizona State in a season-opening surprise
By Alan Shipnuck
Fighting Back After a season of frustration and an off-season that was worse, Notre Dame and its beleaguered coach, Bob Davie, regained respectability by whipping Michigan
By Tim Layden
Pro Basketball
Riding a Wave It's taken Clippers center Michael Olowokandi only three years to go from novice to No. 1 draft pick, but he knows he'll be in deep water in the NBA
By Jackie MacMullan
Inside
Inside THE WEEK IN SPORTS
Inside Baseball
Inside Baseball
By Mark Bechtel; Jeff Pearlman
Inside The NFL
Inside The NFL
By Peter King; David Fleming
A Center's Initiation The Ravens' Jeff Mitchell got pumped up to face the vaunted Steelers
By Peter King
Dr. Z's Forecast
By Paul Zimmerman
Inside College Football
Inside College Football
By Ivan Maisel; John Walters; Alan Shipnuck
Playback
By Brian Westbrook
Inside Motor Sports
Inside Motor Sports
By Ed Hinton
Haunting Victories CART driver Adrian Fernandez races in the shadow of death
By Loren Mooney
Inside Tennis
Inside Tennis
By S.L. Price; L. Jon Wertheim
You Had to See It to Believe It
By Rick Reilly
Departments
Leading Off
Letters
Scorecard
By Richard Hoffer, Jaime Diaz, Peter King, Jack McCallum EDITED BY Jack McCallum AND Richard O'Brien
SI View The Week in TV Sports
By John Walters
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