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TheLineup
Departments
4 Leading Off
12 Letters
14 Catching Up With ...
17 Air and Space
Yes, they're rich, but do sports stars treasure anything as much as their old Christmas toys? by Steve Rushin
18 Scorecard
• The Grinch stole hockey
• SI's exotic holiday gift guide
• Mia Hamm's farewell to the pitch
• The Show: Heisman vs. Heisman
34 Faces in the Crowd
37 Players
98 The Life of Reilly
Baghdad to the Big 12: an Aggie with a Purple Heart by Rick Reilly
Inside ...
84 The NFL
• Weis to juggle Patriots, Irish jobs
91 The NBA
• Carmelo Anthony's learning curve
95 College Football
• Will recruits flock to Spurrier?
97 College Basketball
• Hoosiers taking a hammering
PRO FOOTBALL
48 Passing Marks
The Colts' Peyton Manning is on the verge of breaking a hallowed record set by one of his quarterbacking idols
by Michael Silver
PRO BASKETBALL
56 Suspiciously Good
The surprising Sonics are off to a torrid start--and doubters are starting to believe
by Chris Ballard
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
60 Ready for Takeoff
Senior forward and newly licensed pilot Joey Graham is flying high for the unbeaten Oklahoma State Cowboys
by Grant Wahl
BASEBALL
66 He Gets $33 Million?
At the winter meetings teams spent fortunes on second-tier pitchers such as Russ Ortiz
by Tom Verducci
BASEBALL
72 Pride of Peabody
Jeff Allison, bound for big-league stardom, was nearly killed by drugs
by Michael Bamberger
Cover
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN BIEVER
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BILL FRAKES (GRAHAM)
HE'S GOT HIS PROPS
Oklahoma State's Joey Graham is mad about hoops and planes (page 60).
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JIM DALY/SALEM NEWS (ALLISON)
