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Crowning Achievements The fall's dominant teams held form in the NCAA Division I championships
By Bill Syken
Year In Review
A Site to Behold With the opening of The Home Depot Center outside Los Angeles, MLS offered $150 million proof that it's a worthy player on the world stage
By Grant Wahl
Mia Hamm WOMEN'S WORLD CUP
Gravy For The Biscuit As a promising rivalry fizzled, and Funny Cide faltered in the Triple Crown, a Depression-era hero came charging from out of the past
By Tim Layden
A Real Gold-Getter Heading into the Olympic year, 18-year-old Michael Phelps lowered five world records and raised expectations to positively Spitzian levels
By Tim Layden
Farewell
2003 Year In Review
The Fellowship Of the Arm In pitching the upstart Marlins to a World Series win over the Yankees, 23-year-old Josh Beckett joined a timeline of mound immortals
By Tom Verducci
Florida Marlins WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS
It Had Zigs and Zags--and Zing With a double-overtime, rim-out humdinger last March, Arizona and Gonzaga reminded us--in a tough season--how magnetic their sport can be
By Grant Wahl
Syracuse NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
Heroes with Headsets In an age of ever-shifting personnel and pervasive parity, coaches such as Bill Parcells and Marvin Lewis have become the NFL's new franchise players
By Michael Silver
Tampa Bay Buccaneers SUPER BOWL XXXVII CHAMPIONS
A Crisis Brought Out His Best A campaign to find a cure for the disease that struck his caddie had an interesting side effect on Tom Watson: It made a new man out of him
By Michael Bamberger
Mike Weir MASTERS CHAMPION
A Rock For The Ages On a crossroads afternoon for NASCAR, old school fave Bill Elliott won the final fall race at Rockingham as Matt Kenseth clinched the 2003 crown
By Lars Anderson
Matt Kenseth NASCAR WINSTON CUP CHAMPION
When Great Isn't Good Enough
Minnesota's Kevin Garnett, the highest-paid player in the NBA, must constantly fight off the image of the Star Who Hasn't Measured Up
By Jack McCallum
San Antonio Spurs NBA CHAMPIONS
Say You Want a Revolution? Sousaphones and Song Girls notwithstanding, signs point to an imminent change--for better or worse--in the tradition-bound game
By Tim Layden
Ohio State NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
Noisy House On The Prairie Hard times for hockey? Not in Minnesota, where the madly loved Wild showed the rest of the NHL how to run a winning--and profitable--franchise
By Michael Farber
New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup Champions
Too Much Heart Driven by his ambition to reclaim the heavyweight belts, 41-year-old Evander Holyfield soldiered on, even at the risk of a tragic ending
By Richard Hoffer
"That Was As Good as It Gets" So said a certain bald superstar from Las Vegas about the play of the lavishly talented Roger Federer, who elevated the men's game in 2003
By L. Jon Wertheim
Serena Williams WIMBLEDON CHAMPION
Too True To Be Good All year our resident Santa has been making his list and checking it twice, and now he's found out who's been naughty...and who's been wildly--and ridiculously--off-base
By Steve Rushin
Playing Against the Clock WHAT POSSIBLE SENSE CAN A MAN MAKE OF BUSTED FINGERS AND ENDLESS SWIM MEETS AND FOUR CONFOUNDING, ATHLETIC CHILDREN AND RACCOONS IN THE GARAGE AND FEAR OF FOOTBALL AND THE YEARS SPINNING, SPINNING, SPINNING BY?
By Rick Telander
Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary
Sooner Surprise Who would have guessed that football-mad Oklahoma is also a GYMNASTICS HOTBED?
By Brian Cazeneuve
Feeding the Monster The former Sooners coach on his life with the OU football juggernaut
By Barry Switzer
The Poll Oklahomans weigh in on sports*
Compiled by Bill Syken
Who & Where
Compiled by Bill Syken
Greatest Moment
Compiled by Bill Syken
Numbers
Compiled by Bill Syken
Memorable Quote
Compiled by Bill Syken
Alltime Best For Oklahoma's top 50 homegrown sports figures, go to SI.com/50
Compiled by Bill Syken
Inside
Inside The Week In Sports
Inside College Football
All for One Humble St. John's brought an end to Mount Union's D-III dynasty
By Kelley King
Blue Heaven
By Kelley King
Inside The NFL
Job Action G.M. Rick McKay's jump to the rival Falcons turns him against his old club
By Peter King
Dr. Z's Forecast
By Paul Zimmerman
Dr. Z's All-Pro Team
By Paul Zimmerman
Teams Should Be Wooing Romeo Head-Coaching Candidate
By Peter King
Inside The NBA
Cavs Remix Trading blunder-prone Ricky Davis gives Cleveland a new, winning look
By Ian Thomsen
Scout's Take
By Ian Thomsen
Inside College Basketball
Simply Solid Well-drilled Stanford is in sync, and soon could be even better
By Kelli Anderson
Three Pointer
By Kelli Anderson
Inside The NHL
Golden Glow The U.S. has the talent to win its first World Junior Championship
By Andrea Woo
In The Crease
By Pierre McGuire
Getting Great Roommates Hockey Family Tradition
By Andrea Woo
Heaven On Earth
By Rick Reilly
Departments
Leading Off
Letters
Bottom's Up
Yule Be Amazed
By Steve Rushin
Some Pain, Some Gain An expert on race sees the sports world making progress in 2003
By Michael Eric Dyson Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Forms Of Endearment Want to have sex with an athlete? Just sign here
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
Pass Perfect
By Paul Zimmerman Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Sports Beat
Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
The Weeks Ahead What To Watch And Watch For
By Julia Morrill Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Under Review
By Richard Deitsch Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Faces In The Crowd
Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
Big Game Season
By Albert Chen Edited by Kostya Kennedy and Mark Bechtel
