October 2, 2000 Table Of Contents

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Golf Plus

The Week Sept 19-25

Notebook

By Jaime Diaz; Art Stricklin

My Shot My sister, Naree, and I aren't robots. We're a couple of 14-year-olds who love to play golf

By Aree Wongluekiet

Feeding Frenzy A supercharged diet has Larry Nelson feasting on the Senior tour, on which he has won three of his last four starts to make a late-season run at player of the year

By Alan Shipnuck

Catching Up With...

Lance Alworth, Graceful Receiver DECEMBER 13, 1965

By Kelvin C. Bias

Si View

EndGames In an imaginary colloquy, NBC's top talents ponder why the Olympics are a ratings dud

By Jeff MacGregor

SI View The Week in TV Sports

By John Walters

Horn of Plenty

By John Walters

Olympics 2000

The Start of Something Big Marion Jones's drive for five began brilliantly in the 100, then came news that her husband had failed a drug test

By Tim Layden

Double Take The surprisingly strong American swimmers got the biggest surprise of all when Anthony Ervin and Gary Hall Jr. won in a dead heat

By Leigh Montville

Blessings in Disguise As was true in that other Land of Oz, the most rewarding viewsin Sydney come when you pull off the masks and look behind the curtain

By Steve Rushin

American Beauties In the first Olympics to give a squat about women weightlifters, Tara Nott (right) won a gold medal and Cheryl Haworth a bronze for the U.S.

By Jack McCallum

Fumbling Exercises The women's all-around gymnastics competition was marred by a short horse and a failed drug test

By E.M. Swift

Payback Time To win the match sprint, Marty Nothstein of the U.S. first had to streak past the man who had beaten him for gold in Atlanta

By Michael Farber

Bent on Winning Laura Wilkinson spun a Harry Potteresque tale while becoming the first U.S. woman since 1964 to win a platform diving gold

By Michael Farber

Beach Party What separates beach volleyball from the rest of the Games is the good-time atmosphere, even when fierce competition breaks out

By Richard Hoffer

Wild Ride No worries? Hah! At the mountain biking venue the hazards ranged from mad magpies to alleged dinosaurs

By Jack McCallum

Face Value A disputed goal gave Australia the gold medal, but the big winner was women's water polo

By Phil Taylor

In Love and War

Team handball stars Camilla Andersen and Mia Hundvin are the first spouses ever to oppose each other in the Games

By Gary Smith

Pro Football

Guiding Light Everything's going the Jets' way as they beat the Buccaneers on the last-ditch heroics of the maligned Wayne Chrebet to run their record to 4-0

By Michael Silver

Coming Of Age With a nose for the ballcarrier and an unwavering focus, inside linebacker Sam Cowart has emerged as the star of the Bills' unsung defense

By Jeffri Chadiha

College Football

Young Man Rivers Freshman quarterback Philip Rivers has kept North Carolina State rolling along with three last-gasp victories

By Tim Crothers

Baseball

He's the Manny In the battle for the last playoff spot, the Indians rely on Manny Ramirez, who talks softly but carries a big bat

By Tom Verducci; David Sabino

Inside

Inside THE WEEK IN SPORTS

Inside Baseball

Inside Baseball

By Stephen Cannella

Inside The NFL

Inside The NFL

By Peter King

The King's Corner

By Peter King

Dr. Z's Forecast

By Paul Zimmerman

Inside College Football

Inside College Football

By Ivan Maisel

Taking Care of Business Minnesota's hard-hitting Karon Riley spares no one--including teammates

By Lars Anderson

Sydney Pen Pals In the middle of the most important three weeks of their lives, Olympians answer my e-mail (and fill this space).

By Rick Reilly

Departments

Fans Stayed Away in Droves Even the players weren't much interested in the Triple A World Series in Vegas

By Jeff Pearlman

Gear Molded backpacks are designed to keep vulnerable contents snug and safe

By Kelley King

Diamonds Are a Guy's Best Friend Athletes and rap stars can't get enough of jeweler Jacob Arabo's garish designs

By George Dohrmann

Books Women and sports: two sharply divergent views

By Charles Hirshberg

Leading Off

Look Who's at the Brickyard A Grand Prix race drew crowds to Indy as Formula One returned to the United States

By Mark Bechtel

Letters

Scorecard Ewing Fallout--Tramps in Sydney--Shaq Flosses--Koss Bosses

By John Walters; Phil Taylor; Chris Lewis; Jack McCallum Edited by Albert Kim and Mark Mravic

Faces in the Crowd