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Fax Or Fiction? As Brad Faxon discovered during the Buick Classic, a Tour pro can get some unsettling--some might say spooky--answers when he starts questioning his swing
By Gary Van Sickle
Leap Of Faith Beth Bauer hopes that changes in her personal life will lead to the same kind of second-half surge that made her the 2002 rookie of the year
By Yi-Wyn Yen
Bad Boy Makes Good Will Jonathan Kaye's first Tour win help change his rough- edged image?
By Alan Shipnuck
Big Man In The Big House
By Steve Rushin
Big Play Taking the advice of his fellow pros, Jonathan Kaye finally cured his putting woes and jarred a dramatic 12- footer for eagle to prevail in a playoff
By Tom Patri
British Win Is In The Stars
By Alan Shipnuck
Is There A Spin Doctor In The House?
By Alan Shipnuck
Coming Up
By Sal Johnson
Baseball
Albert The Great Cardinals slugger ALBERT PUJOLS has emerged as the game's top offensive threat and launched an early bid for the first Triple Crown in 36 years
By Daniel G. Habib
The Kid With The Kick
High-styling, high-fiving Florida rookie Dontrelle Willis has everybody, even the famously indifferent Marlins fans, talking about his historic start
By Chris Ballard
Boxing
Cut Short Vitali Klitschko outslugged Lennox Lewis, but a bloody gash halted his title challenge
By Franz Lidz
Tennis
How Hard Can He Hit It? Andy Roddick serves rockets, and he's not the only man capable of breaking 150 mph. But is a big delivery enough to win Wimbledon?
By L. Jon Wertheim
Where Are They Now?
Mania Man Long after Fernandomania swept the nation, Mexico's greatest beisbol export still has the game in his blood--and his bloodlines. Are you ready for Fernandito?
By Luis Fernando Llosa
The Ice Storm Nancy gets whacked. Tonya pleads innocence. Oksana beats them both to win the gold. You couldn't make this stuff up
By Franz Lidz; Brian Cazeneuve; E.M. Swift
Thanks For The Memory The Hall of Fame forward has been reborn as an educational evangelist, preaching his radical gospel of memorizing through visualization
By Alexander Wolff
The Bronx Zoo
Yankee Doodle Dandy The Bronx Zoo's quirkiest character remains a kid at heart, sharing his wisdom with youngsters in his native Miami
By Mark Bechtel
Happy Hunter The uber-athlete who gave two sports his best shot now takes dead aim at the good life
By Rick Telander
The Final Kiss-off Why did baseball's buxom Kissing Bandit retire her act four years ago? Hard to say, because now she's revealing nothing
By Steve Rushin
The Real-life Rocky Nearly three decades after he went 15 rounds against the Greatest and inspired a movie, the Bayonne Bleeder is still living the good life in his hardscrabble hometown
By Michael Farber
Short And Sweet You don't need to be Yao Ming to make your mark in the sports world. We caught up with six former athletes who, though small in stature, measured up in the eyes of history
By Melissa Segura
The Wild One He became a legend throughout baseball by throwing the fastest fastball ever--and rarely getting it over the plate. Then he flamed out, on and off the field
By Pete McEntegart
Lost & Found Checking in with a pair of footballers, the original DHs and a slew of college hoops hotshots, and paying our final respects
Compiled by Lars Anderson, Trisha Blackmar, Jessica Garrison, Bryan Graham, Pete McEntegart, Mary Pinkham, Erika Sauerwein and Kevin Tran
Inside
Inside The Week in Sports
Inside Baseball
Wild Rice The Owls beat Stanford to win their first national title in any sport
By Daniel G. Habib
Will Donnelly Be An All-Star? Anaheim's Stud Reliever
By Albert Chen
Coming Soon... Victor Martinez
By Albert Chen
Tom Verducci's View
By Tom Verducci
Inside The NHL
He's Rich In Talent Growing up in a poor area outside Toronto didn't stop Anthony Stewart from becoming a first-round draft pick
By Stephen Cannella
In The Crease
By Pierre McGuire
Chillin' With The Splinter
By Rick Reilly
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Letters
The Unbearable Brightness of Beane
A best-seller made A's G.M. Billy Beane look like a genius. Will it also make him a pariah?
By Daniel G. Habib Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Champ to Chump Hewitt's early exit goes unmourned
By S.L. Price 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
A Gentleman Passes ROGER NEILSON/1934-2003
By Michael Farber Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
The Next One LARRY DOBY/1923-2003 After Jackie Robinson, Doby blazed a trail of his own
By Mark Bechtel Edited by Kostya Kennedy
Q+A Pam Shriver And George Lazenby The 40-year-old ESPN tennis analyst, and five-time Wimbledon doubles champ, wed the 63-year-old onetime James Bond (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) last year.
By Richard Deitsch; Pam Shriver; George Lazenby Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
The Show
By Bill Scheft Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
The Week In Television
Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Under Review Making Waves--Lone Malone
By John O'Keefe Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Sports Beat
Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Faces in the Crowd
Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Trivial Matters
By David Sabino Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
