December 11, 2000 Table Of Contents

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Si View

How Little We Know Whether napping or snapping, athletes offer peculiar motives for their inscrutable acts

By Steve Rushin

SI view The Week in TV Sports

By John Walters

Boomerang

By John Walters

Crunch Time Want to get a salary cap guru's take on pro football? Realnfl.com is just your site

By John O'Keefe

Catching Up With...

Tony Robinson, Vols Quarterback October 7, 1985

By Albert Chen

Pro Football

Taming the Beast The Dolphins may play boring football, but they're making an exciting title run in the ferocious AFC East

By Michael Silver

Heart and Soul Curtis Martin's commitment to excelling for the Jets is equaled only by his desire to find lasting happiness off the field

By Michael Silver

Pro Basketball

My Way or the Highway In his fourth season as majordomo of the Celtics, Rick Pitino has yet to stop screaming or start winning, and he may be laying the groundwork for a midseason exit from the NBA

By Ian Thomsen

Baseball

Winning Pitch Sure, the $88.5 million had a lot to do with Mike Mussina's decision to sign with the Yankees, but it was a call from manager Joe Torre that sealed the deal

By Tom Verducci

College Football [bonus Piece]

The Invisible Man Friends and relatives thought they knew Larry Kelley, Yale's famed Heisman Trophy winner--until he took his own life last summer

By Michael Bamberger

Inside

Inside THE WEEK IN SPORTS

Inside College Football

Compute This The BCS crunched the numbers, and the result was controversy

By Ivan Maisel

Inside The NHL

Inside The NHL

By Kostya Kennedy

In the Crease

By Pierre McGuire

Inside Boxing

Inside Boxing

By Richard Hoffer; Victor Nunez

Inside The NFL

Inside The NFL

By Peter King

The King's Corner

By Peter King

Dr. Z's Forecast

By Paul Zimmerman

Paralympic Paradox

By Rick Reilly

Departments

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Letters

Scorecard Groza Remembered--Chad All Over--Jockey Tragedy--Model Golfer

By S.L. Price Edited by Albert Kim and Mark Mravic

Toe The Lineman

By Paul Zimmerman Edited by Albert Kim and Mark Mravic

The Rider Was Lost Chris Antley, 1966-2000

By Mark Beech Edited by Albert Kim and Mark Mravic

Ask the Coach Guidance for those lost in sports

Edited by Albert Kim and Mark Mravic

Faces in the Crowd

Edited by Albert Kim and Mark Mravic

Crying Foul Alarmed that roughness had gotten out of hand, college basketball's rules makers have told referees to crack down so that the game again will be played as it was meant to be

By Alexander Wolff