Inside The Week In Sports

The NBA
Maturation of Kobe
Raptors look for leadership
Odyssey of Rockets rookie
Coaching Italian style

Olympic Sports
U.S. women's hockey team keeps rolling
Figure skating trials: Goebel second with a bullet
Boarding's bad boy

The NHL
Lindros's Philly flop
Avalanche's Forsberg: Rocky Mountain low
Players want flexible glass

College Basketball
USC vaults to Pac-10 lead
Shorthanded Georgia finds way to win
Oklahoma cashes in on Price

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY NATHAN BILOWOver easy Halfpiper Tricia Byrnes got big air--and a spot on the U.S. Olympic team--at the Snowboard Grand Prix in Breckenridge, Colo.