August 21, 2000 Table Of Contents

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Golf Plus

The Week Aug. 8-14

Grand Finale Meg Mallon kept her shot at a career grand slam alive by winning the last du Maurier

By John Garrity

In Like Flint Tiger Woods may have had the keys to the city, but Rocco Mediate wound up the toast of the town

By Gary Van Sickle

Notebook

By Jaime Diaz

My Shot It was a slow transformation, but playing faster has definitely improved my game

By Bob Estes

Autographs can be a major pain at majors

By Linn Strickler

Pet of the Week Dazzling Diva and Denim & Lace, Donna Andrews's horses

By Tom Hanson

When All Els Fails Yes, we asked for a dominant player, but this is ridiculous

By Gary Van Sickle

Catching Up With...

Ernie Broglio, Big Deal Pitcher JUNE 26, 1961

By Pete McEntegart

Si View

What's It All About? Athletes tell us incessantly that it's not about the money. Yeah, right

By Steve Rushin

SI View The Week in TV Sports

By John Walters

Break a Leg

By John Walters

Key Punch The Internet offers fight fans a one-two combination that's difficult to beat

By John Walters

Baseball

Catch This!

Mike Piazza isn't just the best-hitting backstop of all time. He's also the leading man on baseball's hottest team

By Tom Verducci

He Delivers

By David Sabino

Manuel Dexterity With a style that relies more on feel than on the percentages, manager Jerry Manuel has turned the White Sox into the most surprising success story of the summer

By William Nack

Olympics 2000

Stroke of Luck Emigrating from the Soviet Union was one of the best things that ever happened to backstroker Lenny Krayzelburg, the U.S.'s best hope for swimming gold at the Sydney Games

By Leigh Montville

College Football

Big Man on Campus The next NFL team shopping for a head coach would be wise to place its first call to Stanford's Tyrone Willingham

By Michael Silver

Pro Basketball

A Huge Splash Irrepressible point guard Steve Francis has found a home in the NBA, and his confidence is having a ripple effect on the Rockets

By L. Jon Wertheim

Inside

Inside THE WEEK IN SPORTS

Inside College Football

Inside College Football

By Ivan Maisel; B.J. Schecter

Inside Olympic Sports

Inside Olympic Sports

By Tim Layden

A Drive for Five At 38, British rower Steven Redgrave is stroking toward a fifth gold medal

By Brian Cazeneuve

Inside Baseball

Inside Baseball

By Jeff Pearlman

Inside The NFL

Inside The NFL

By Peter King

The 'Roid to Ruin

By Rick Reilly

Departments

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Letters

Scorecard Pharm Bill--Running Men--Quidditch Capers--Dreams of Jeannie

By Don Yaeger Edited by Albert Kim and Mark Mravic

Ask The Coach Guidance for those lost in sports

Faces in the Crowd