January 17, 2000 Table Of Contents

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Golf Plus

The Week Jan. 4-10

Tour Pro Prep Is your child the next Tiger? The parents who send their kids to the Leadbetter Academy are willing to pay a bundle to find out

By John Garrity

Notebook

By Jaime Diaz

My Shot Tiger has never forgotten the first lesson I taught him as a child: Make sure to have fun

By Rudy Duran

Catching Up With...

Brad Park, Hall of Fame Defenseman May 9, 1977

By Kelley King

Si View

SI View The Week in TV Sports

By John Walters

Best of the Bowls

By John Walters

Hurricane Warnings However gripping, the film about Rubin (Hurricane) Carter's ordeal loses punch by fudging facts

By Steve Rushin

Pro Football

Miracle Worker The Titans and their ever-ready coach, Jeff Fisher, pulled off a play for the ages as the postseason kicked off in spectacular fashion

By Michael Silver

Like Old Times Playing as if he were still in his prime, Dan Marino led Miami over Seattle with a vintage fourth-quarter drive

By Peter King

Just Dessert Victory was sweet for a beleaguered but unified Redskins defense, which turned in its best performance of the season to lead Washington's wild-card romp over the Lions

By David Fleming

On All Cylinders Riding the arm of Jeff George and the legs of Robert Smith, the rejuvenated Vikings eliminated the listless Cowboys

By Jack McCallum

College Basketball

To The Point Freshman Jason Gardner, who led Arizona to an upset of No. 1-ranked Stanford, is the latest in a long line of superb Wildcats playmakers

By Grant Wahl

Golf

High Five Tiger Woods kept his streak alive with a can-you-top-this playoff victory in Hawaii

By John Garrity

Hockey

Throwback A decade into the dead-puck era, Penguins star Jaromir Jagr is putting up such big numbers that he brings back memories of the go-go 1980s

By Michael Farber

Pro Basketball

Big Time Elevated by the outsized play of Shaquille O'Neal, the Lakers are looking down on the rest of the NBA

By Phil Taylor; David Sabino

Inside

Inside THE WEEK IN SPORTS

Inside The NHL

Inside The NHL

By Kostya Kennedy

In The Crease

By Pierre McGuire

Inside The NBA

Inside The NBA

By Jackie MacMullan; David Sabino

You Asked For It, Dad Detroit's Jerome Williams is wearing his father out with his hustling play

By Marty Burns

Inside College Basketball

Pistol Whipped Today's top guns average almost 20 points fewer than Pete Maravich did. Why's that?

By Seth Davis

The New Murphy's Law Whatever can go right usually does for Notre Dame's Troy Murphy

By Tim Crothers

Now Playing to Boffo Reviews

By Rick Reilly

Departments

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Letters

Scorecard Shock Rocker--Coaches Bolt--Casa Sosa--Globetrotters Get Real

By Tom Verducci; Richard Hoffer; Peter King Edited by Kevin Cook and Mark Mravic

Faces in the Crowd

Trashin' Yashin A FAN STRIKES BACK

By Lester Munson