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Faces In The Crowd
Faces In The Crowd
Si View
SI View The Week in TV Sports
By John Walters
The Hits Keep Coming The Waterboy, like much of Adam Sandler's work, appeals to sports fans' basest instincts
By Steve Rushin
Catching Up With...
Alvan Adams, Phoenix Suns Center June 7, 1976
By Jennifer Zajac
Pro Football
Picture Perfect In workmanlike fashion, the Broncos dispatched the Raiders for their 11th consecutive win, leaving no doubt that they could roll through the regular season without a loss
By Richard Hoffer
White Lightning With no pomp and precious little padding, the Broncos' deceptively fast Ed McCaffrey has become the NFL's unlikeliest star wide receiver
By Michael Silver
College Football
Destiny's Darlings Unbeaten Tennessee, No. 1 in the bowl rankings if not in the eyes of insiders, ripped Kentucky to prove it can be as good as it is lucky
By Tim Layden
College Basketball
Careful What You Wish For John Chaney wanted his Temple team to lose, and it did--but not before showing that this could be the Owls' year
By Michael Bamberger
Baseball
Fantastic Voyage Three fellow refugees say the tale of Yankees ace Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez's escape from Cuba doesn't hold water
By L. Jon Wertheim And Don Yaeger
Market Swing Because he lacks power, free agent Bernie Williams was entertaining few offers in his bid to become the major leagues' highest-paid player
By Tom Verducci
[bonus Piece
Buffalo Soldier In his quest to become an NBA coach, former superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will go anywhere to gain experience-even an Apache reservation in Arizona
By John Ed Bradley
Inside
Inside THE WEEK IN SPORTS
Inside Tennis
Inside Tennis
By Ian Thomsen
Inside The NFL
Inside The NFL
By Peter King
Dr. Z's Forecast
By Paul Zimmerman
Inside College Football
Inside College Football
By Ivan Maisel; B.J. Schecter; Alan Shipnuck
Playback
By Nick Davis/Wisconsin KR-WR
Hey, Guys, Get a (Poli-)Grip!
By Rick Reilly
Departments
The Voice Next Door College football owes much to a dwindling breed of distinctive broadcasters
By Ivan Maisel
Take Your Best Shot
Winning Effort In A Losing Cause Jared DeVries passed up the NFL to play his senior season at struggling Iowa
By Tim Layden
Green Mountain Giant Tiny Middlebury produces teams to match its impressive new facilities
By L. Jon Wertheim
Eight Minutes Of Mayhem In the new batch of video games, the simplest one is the most fun to play
By Mark McClusky
Letters
Debunking Sports Myths The Gipper, for one, was a big boozer and a gambler
By Ron Fimrite
Leaps Of Faith Base jumper Marta Empinotti scales cliffs and towers and drops into thin air
By Philip Singerman
Get A Grip
By Loren Mooney
Scorecard
By Leigh Montville; Paul Zimmerman; Marty Burns; Kostya Kennedy Edited By Mark Mravic And Kostya Kennedy
