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December 4, 2006 Table Of Contents
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Think your league's waiver wire is picked clean? Don't be so sure. Here are 10 impact (and probably available) players to grab for the season's final weeks
By David Sabino
WE LIKE THE MATCHUP
By David Sabino
DON'T LIKE THE MATCHUP
By Gene Menez
From the Editor
Who should it be? A debate rages at SI.com
Air and Space
By Steve Rushin
SI Players: Life On and Off the Field
Despite setbacks, a Georgia basketball star finds success
By Chris Mannix
SI Players
Figuring in regular-season stats and strength of schedule, RISE's top football analyst,Jon Mahoney, offers the very best players on both sides of the ball for 2006
Football America
Tests of strength and endurance, emotions running furiously high, individuals primed to function as a unit, as exhilarating for fans as it is for competitors--played at any level, only one game has it all
Backyard Brawls? Civil Wars? As last week proved, annual games between college enemies are sports' greatest events--each able to define a season and cause 364 days of agony or ecstasy
By Phil Taylor
For 15 years Brett Favre has been the NFL's answer to Mark Twain's barefoot scamp--forever young and reckless. But nothing lasts forever, and the chattering heads think it's time for him to retire. Pray that they're wrong
FOOTBALL AMERICA
In a year that has tested him like no other, Tom Brady showed--with one sublime, supremely unlikely move--why he and the Patriots may yet be a Super Bowl team
Inside
By Seth Davis
By Ian Thomsen
By Peter King
Dr. Z's Forecast: When QBs Collide
Life of Reilly
By Rick Reilly
Departments
With intimate accounts and stunning photographs, a huge tome portrays the remarkable life of Pelé
By Mark Mravic
Larry Brown has moved on, but Isiah Thomas, his embattled successor as the Knicks' coach, has found plenty of others to feud with this season
The 40-year-old actor (Lost) plays former Marshall assistant football coach Red Dawson in We Are Marshall, which opens on Dec. 22
By Adam Duerson
What to watch and watch for
By Chris Mannix
