November 1, 2004 Table Of Contents
SCORECARD
After nearly drowning this summer, Robert Carr went after the Yale rushing record as if his life depended on it
Thanks to ReelSports Solutions, filmgoers don't cringe when they see a Hollywood celeb attempt a pass
The husband and wife team that made big league scheduling an art is finally being replaced by a computer
By Bruce Stoff
A college English teacher takes his lumps and loves it on a small-time football team in upstate New York
Lawsuits, boardroom jukes, negotiating jive: Who knew there was so much predatory behavior behind college football telecasts?
By David Sabino
Sports Illustrated Bonus Section: Golf Plus
I'll Give Up My Cart When They Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands
Civil War on the Champions Tour
Want to know how it feels to be a PGA Tour player? Walk a mile in his shoes, or better yet, his shoemaker's
Rookie Ryan Palmer's first Tour victory is more evidence that the old school is still in session
By Jim Gorant
Ryan Palmer hit a power fade to take the trouble out of play on the 72nd hole and clinch his first PGA Tour win
By Jim Gorant
Voting hours at si.com: 7 p.m. EDT Sunday to 3 p.m. EDT Monday
By Jim Gorant
By Sal JohnSON
By GORJUS George Lucas*
By Jim Gorant
CATCHING UP WITH
AUGUST 29, 1955
AIR AND SPACE
By Steve Rushin
SI Players: Life on and off the field
Ravens Linebacker
SI Players
Based on a survey of 354 players
Even as they look ahead to Sunday's games, these NFL stars draw lessons from the past
SI PLAYERS
•WHERE IS IT NOW?
The Woman ...WHO INFLUENCED ME
Mike Rucker, Panthers DE, with Jeffri Chadiha
By Mike Rucker
The Questions with Quincy Carter/Jets Quarterback
Starbucks, rich techies, soft showers: One visit and you'll want to Hasselbeck
By Adam Duerson
The World Series
In their quest to KO the Cardinals--and the Curse--Curt Schilling and the Red Sox got off on the right foot
By Tom Verducci
If Boston and St. Louis are America's two greatest baseball towns (who would argue?), let's see how they match up
They didn't have the same opinions about the Red Sox, but talking about the team helped bring them together, especially at the end
Jack Buck taught his boy many things: the job of broadcasting, the way to treat people and how to go to bed thinking about the Cardinals
By Joe Buck
What has the selling of the Babe wrought for the Red Sox? Exactly what the Boston faithful wanted: 8 1/2 decades of self-indulgent suffering
By Charles P. Pierce
Pro Football
With supreme confidence and accuracy,do-it-all Daunte Culpepper is threatening NFL passing records and putting the Vikings on a fast track to the playoffs
DAUNTE CULPEPPER isn't the only NFL quarterback on the brink of a career season. Here are three other passers who, although at very different stages in their development, are having notable starts in 2004.
By Josh Elliott
College Football
Running mad in Urban Meyer's radical spread-option attack, Utah is stalking an unbeaten season--and putting another scare into the powers behind the BCS
By Kelley King
... Do the Utes belong with the big boys? Two opinions on whether a Mountain West team deserves a BCS bowl bid
By Tim Layden
College Basketball
Providence coach Tim Welsh and his staff gave SI an inside look at their 13-month pursuit of this year's entering class. It was a process filled with red herrings, blind alleys, rejection, despair--and, in the end, high hopes
Inside
The Week in Sports
Inside College Football
Despite the proliferation of passing offenses, a few runners are bucking the trend and putting up big numbers
By Mark Beech
MISSISSIPPI RISING
By Mark Beech
By Phil Taylor
Inside Motor Sports
Kurt Busch didn't win at Martinsville, but his sixth straight top five finish jacked up his lead in the Cup Chase
Inside The NFL
The undefeated Eagles went way down their roster for help in pulling out an overtime win over the Browns
By Peter King
T.O.'S NEXT TARGET
By Peter King
GROUND ASSAULT
By Peter King
By Peter King
DISPATCHES
By Peter King
LIFE OF REILLY
By Rick Reilly
Departments
When the courts ran a reverse last spring, two college football stars wound up on the sidelines. Their different ways of handling exile could shape their NFL futures
By Phil Taylor
With America's favorite horse retired, this isn't the Breeders' Cup the industry hoped for. But if you have a jones for jazzy ponies, it could still be one heck of a party
By Mark Beech
Cleared by the NCAA, Rick Neuheisel hopes to move past a gambling scandal
For the second time this year, a Boston postgame celebration turns tragic
By Yi-Wyn Yen
By Bill Scheft
By Roy Jones Jr.
The 10 Spot By Pete McEntegart
Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback
By Peter King
By Nancy Ramsey
What to watch and watch for
By Julia Morrill