September 18, 2000 Table Of Contents

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Golf Plus

The Week Sept. 5-11

Finishing Kick Tiger Woods capped off a brilliant summer by winning yet another national championship in record-breaking fashion

By John Garrity

Notebook

By Jaime Diaz

My Shot I've been around wooden drivers my entire life, and I'm here to tell you they're history

By Barney Adams

Caddie Cam Job hunting requires patience and a cell phone

By Linn Strickler

Women In The Games

Aiming Higher The number of female Olympians is growing--even a pistol-packing Iranian is in Sydney--but for many the Games are unattainable because of oppression, prejudice and disease

By Alexander Wolff

Catching Up With...

Murray Rose, Aussie Swimmer AUGUST 14, 1961

By Kelley King

Si View

Get with the Counterprogram Turned off by the Olympics? Here are TV alternatives we'd love to see

By Steve Rushin

SI view The Week in TV Sports

By Mark Bechtel

Multimedia

By Mark Bechtel

College Football

Eric the Great Thanks to a three-touchdown performance by swift-footed quarterback Eric Crouch, top-ranked Nebraska survived an overtime thriller at Notre Dame

By Austin Murphy

Baseball

Bearing Down Boosted by a retro Rocket and a host of newcomers, the Yankees blew away Boston and established themselves--again--as the team to beat

By Tom Verducci; David Sabino

Tennis

Strokes of Genius Marat Safin's star soared at the U.S. Open, while Venus Williams showed she's in a galaxy of her own

By S.L. Price

College Basketball

Knight Fall Bob Knight's controversial 29-year reign at Indiana came to an ironic end when he gave a student an unmannerly lesson in manners

By Alexander Wolff

Pro Football

On a Rampage With Kurt Warner and the Termites eating up huge chunks of yardage, Super Bowl champ St. Louis is still decimating the league's defenses

By Michael Silver

Follow the Leader With Tony Banks finally maturing into a first-rate quarterback, the Ravens are ready to join the ranks of AFC contenders

By Jeffri Chadiha

Inside

Inside THE WEEK IN SPORTS

Inside Baseball

Wild-Card Draw The key to the American League playoff chase may not be in the stars

By Stephen Cannella

Inside The NFL

Downturn In Dallas Injuries, old age and salary-cap woes have the Cowboys between a rock and a hard place

By Peter King

The King's Corner

By Peter King

Dr. Z's Forecast

By Paul Zimmerman

Inside College Football

Thrown for a Loss Miami and its young passer took a wrong turn on a trip to Washington

By Ivan Maisel; Tim Crothers

Man of the Century Georgia Southern's Adrian Peterson has 24 straight 100-yard rushing games

By Kelley King

Summer Olympics [bonus Piece]

Gotta Catch 'Em All

Armed with new methods for detecting EPO, Graham Trout and his colleagues at Australia's Sports Drug Testing lab have Olympic cheaters in their crosshairs

By Gary Smith

Last Call for the Original Prime Time

By Rick Reilly

Departments

MJ's Old Shoes Smell Sweet Air Jordans never die. They just get reissued and snapped up at big-city stores

By Michael Bamberger

Gear These new products should make the outdoor life easier on two wheels, in the water, on the court and along the trail

By Mark Beech

Setting a High Gold Standard Ray Ewry's remarkable Olympic success came in the short-lived standing jumps

By Brad Herzog

Leading Off

Letters

Scorecard Jackie's Scout--Mixed-up URLs--Phone Bill--Mad Max in Arabic

By Jack McCallum; Daniel Okrent; Brian Cazeneuve Edited by Albert Kim and Mark Mravic

Faces in the Crowd

Edited by Albert Kim and Mark Mravic