The Lineup
50
sportsmen of the year
The 2004 Boston Red Sox staged the most improbable comeback in baseball history and liberated their long-suffering nation of fans by Tom Verducci
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
70 Call It the Twiceman
Three top teams have two bona fide Heisman candidates
by Austin Murphy
PRO BASKETBALL
78 Soaring to Old Heights
After five ankle operations, Grant Hill is dazzling again
by Chris Ballard
PRO FOOTBALL
86 Down in the Dumps
It's been a long fall from the top for the Dolphins and 49ers
by Michael Silver
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
90 Ahead of Schedule
NBA scouts love 7foot high school junior Greg Oden
by Tim Layden
PAINTBALL
96 Whose Idea Was This?
In 1981 some friends settled a beef by shooting paint at one another. Look what came of it
by Charles Gaines
TRACK AND FIELD
116 The Color of Speed
Many fans who can't believe Olympic 400-meter champ Jeremy Wariner is white have argued it out on the Web
by Gary Smith
Departments
8 Leading Off
18 Letters
20 Contributors
23 Air and Space
Harvard footballers win, graduate and even go pro by Steve Rushin
24 Scorecard
• NFL unkind to college coaches
• Bon voyage, Landon Donovan
• NBA brawl's aftermath
36 Faces in the Crowd
39 Players
146 Life of Reilly
Sox, Shmox. My Sportsman pick is Bill Buckner by Rick Reilly
Inside ...
130 The NBA
• Ray Allen leads booming Sonics
133 College Basketball
• Wake's other good guard
135 College Football
• Big-time coaches on the bubble
• Here comes Showdown Saturday
138 Motor Sports
• SI's Driver of the Year: Johnson
141 The NFL
• Moss back in the (end) zone
• Dr. Z likes the Chargers
Cover
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1918 team sweater and ball
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THANKS A LOT
Three days after Thanksgiving, Denver lost to Oakland in a snowstorm (page 144).