February 28, 2005 Table Of Contents
Sports Illustrated Bonus Section: Golf Plus
A soggy PGA Tour official talks about rain, fairway fishing and the Big Coat
By Mark Russell
By Jim Gorant
A List What golfers are talking about
By Jim Gorant
By Mike Perpich
What does a quiet man like U.S. Open champ Retief Goosen have to do to get people talking about him? How about getting DQ'd before taking a shot
By Chris Lewis
Fellow Afrikaner Ernie Els is the only Tour pro who's close with Retief Goosen
By Chris Lewis
My wife's second fight with cancer has made golf no less important to our family
Life and Times on the PGA Tour
By Paul Jenkins
By Rick Lipsey
SCORECARD
A dream opportunity--chronicling a triumphant 2004 season by the Cubs--turned into a North Side nightmare
Having dominated the skeleton season, Utah's Noelle Pikus-Pace has slid into prime position for next year's Olympics
By Kelley King
CATCHING UP WITH
JUNE 3, 1974
By Bill Syken
LETTERS
AIR AND SPACE
By Steve Rushin
SI Players
By Tim Hudson
[Based on a survey of 227 NBA players]
Wait a minute! Who really has the football that made Dwight Clark famous?
Since 22-year-old Mavericks point guard Devin Harris wrote about adjusting to life in Dallas in his Jan. 31 diary entry, he has averaged 7.0 points and 2.0 assists in 15.1 minutes for the 35-16 Mavs.
By Devin Harris
The Questions with Brevin Knight/Bobcats Guard
It's heating up in the land of the Giants and 11 other clubs--but it's a dry heat
By Adam Duerson
Jeff Gordon fought off a hard-charging Dale Earnhardt Jr. to win his third Daytona 500 and end a long, dark off-season for his Hendrick Motorsports team
Baseball
Ace lefty Randy Johnson, a pitcher the Yankees coveted for nearly a decade, hit the ground running--and chatting--at his first spring training in pinstripes
By Tom Verducci
SPECIAL REPORT
MRSA, a strain of antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus once confined to hospitals, is striking athletes at an alarming rate and with dire consequences
By Phil Taylor
College Basketball
All-seeing, All-America sophomore court general Chris Paul of Wake Forest has become the college game's best point guard--and one of its leading citizens
By Seth Davis
By Seth Davis
Inside
The Week In Sports
Inside the NBA
The stellar play of oft-injured center Zydrunas Ilgauskas will be a key part of the Cavs' success--if they can keep him
By Ian Thomsen
By Ian Thomsen
By Ian Thomsen
By Ian Thomsen
Inside College Basketball
Using an international lineup, Pacific has improbably cracked the Top 25 and become the best team in California
COWBOYS' CURRY
By Seth Davis
LIFE OF REILLY
By Rick Reilly
Departments
Hopes soared when NHL players and owners reconvened soon after the season was canceled. But the commissioner was not in a conciliatory mood
Whaddya mean there's no hockey? Up in Plaster Rock, 96 four-man teams did battle on a frozen lake
By Grant Wahl
The outlaw journalist loved and wrote about sports for 50 years
Not satisfied with six Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong will return
By Bill Scheft
The star of Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 plays poker pro Don (The Matador) Everest on ESPN's Tilt
What to watch and watch for
By Nancy Ramsey