May 19, 2003 Table Of Contents

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Catching Up With...

Thurman Thomas, Running Back JANUARY 20, 1992

By Melissa Segura

Sports Illustrated Bonus Section

Family Style At 49, you'd think Jay Haas would be slowing down. Instead he's having a career year, thanks to his efforts to keep up with his golfing sons

By Gary Van Sickle

Strong Silent Type Kevin Hall of NCAA-bound Ohio State leads by his actions, not his words

By Farrell Evans

Masters of Disaster Final-round gaffes proved that even winners can look silly

By Alan Shipnuck

Big Play David Toms's wild final tee shot at the Wachovia led to a memorable snowman and illustrated how important his driving was on the other 71 holes

By David Glenz

Coming Up

By Sal Johnson

Sports Ilustrated Bonus Section

By Alan Shipnuck

Vanilla Ice

By Steve Rushin

NBA Playoffs

Rising in the East Point guard extraordinaire Jason Kidd and the improved Nets could give the West a test if they make the NBA Finals

By Chris Ballard

How The Mighty Are Falling Phil Jackson's ticker isn't the only indication that Western teams are vulnerable

By Jack McCallum

NHL Playoffs

Wild Times Two shocking playoff series comebacks have the hockey-mad fans of Minnesota believing in Stanley Cup miracles

By Michael Farber

College Sports

Caught In the Net Everyone's a reporter in the world of fan-driven, rumor- mongering college websites, forcing coaches and players to watch their every step

By Tim Layden

Baseball

Raffy Joins The Club The Rangers' Rafael Palmeiro celebrated his 500th home run--and accepted long overdue recognition--in typically understated fashion

By Josh Elliott

College Football

Body Blow Southern Mississippi running back Derrick Nix was bound for the NFL until he was blindsided by a life-threatening disease

By John Ed Bradley

Inside

Inside The Week in Sports

Inside Baseball

Inside Baseball

By Daniel G. Habib

Tom Verducci's View

By Tom Verducci

Inside The NBA

Inside The NBA

By Ian Thomsen

Inside Soccer

Inside Soccer

By Grant Wahl

Extreme Measures

By Rick Reilly

Departments

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Letters

Turning the Tide? By hiring dashing young coach Mike Shula, Alabama meant to calm the storm swirling around its football program. Instead, it created a new controversy

By Kelley King Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

In from the Cold After a bout with frostbite, Olympic champ Rulon Gardner wrestles on

By Brian Cazeneuve Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

Go Figure

Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

For The Record

Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

Sports Beat

Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

The Week In Television

Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

Under Review Along Comes Mary--Horn Swoggle--No Mike for Mike

By Richard Deitsch Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

Q+A Bobby Valentine The former manager of the Mets and the Rangers is an analyst on Baseball Tonight

By Richard Deitsch; Bobby Valentine Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

The Show

By Bill Scheft Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

Trivial Matters

By David Sabino Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel

Faces in the Crowd

Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel