Inside The Week in Sports

The NBA
Clippers have Brand new outlook
Rockets focus on own free agents
Can Kidd make Martin a star?

Baseball
Dodgers' rotation in tatters
Time for a Toronto fire sale?
Swinging and missing in Milwaukee

College Basketball
Ohio schoolboy the buzz of summer camps
Shavlik Randolph makes a name for himself
Whaley's woes

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY NICK CARDILLICCHIO Handy acquisition The Clippers hope one day to measure the hand of Elton Brand--shown here at actual size--for a ring (page 76).