April 10, 2006 Table Of Contents
College Basketball
The Women's Final Four was dominated by the ACC, which had three teams in Boston and produced the national champ. The scary thing? The conference might be stronger in 2006-07
Assuming that Texas's LaMarcus Aldridge, UConn's Rudy Gay, Gonzaga's Adam Morrison and LSU's Tyrus Thomas jump to the NBA, here's how next season's rankings shape up
By Luke Winn
Behind center Joakim Noah's snarling, suffocating defense and a balanced, up-tempo attack, Florida cruised past UCLA to win its first basketball title
By Grant Wahl
SI Bonus Section: Golf Plus
Karrie Webb's Back in the Swim after Winning a Scintillating Kraft Nabisco Championship
Mickelson's primed for Augusta--maybe
By Jim Gorant
Hootie lays out his plan for lengthening the par-3 course
Air and Space
By Steve Rushin
SI Players: Life On and Off the Field
CAVALIERS FORWARD
As told to Chris Mannix
Why Toronto's Matt Bonner is car-less in Canada
The Questions With Orlando Hudson
Diamondbacks Second Baseman
The Suns' mascot may train tougher than any player on the team
Pro Football
He's more than a memorable moniker—D'Brickashaw Ferguson will be the first offensive lineman drafted this year and an NFL cornerstone for decades
Baseball
Teams from the National League have been dominated by their American League counterparts in recent years, by almost every measure, and the trend will only continue this season. How did this happen?
By Tom Verducci
HOCKEY
Besieged all season by injuries--including ones that sidelined stars like Peter Forsberg and Simon Gagné--the Philadelphia Flyers are finally getting healthy. Playoff opponents beware: Adversity has made them stronger
By E.M. Swift
PRO BASKETBALL
When did the streaking Nets enter the discussion about NBA title contenders? Around the same time that 33-year-old Jason Kidd reentered the conversation about the league's elite point guards
By Chris Mannix
Inside
By Tom Verducci
By Ian Thomsen
Life of Reilly
By Rick Reilly
Departments
Whether Duke lacrosse players are guilty or innocent, the rape allegations that rocked the program exposed the sport's changing culture
Despite blood clots on the brain, a former contender gets back in the ring
The 28-year-old actor (Napoleon Dynamite) costars in The Benchwarmers, which opens on April 7
By Adam Duerson
What to watch and watch for
By Chris Mannix