April 2, 2007 Table Of Contents
SI Players: LIFE ON AND OFF THE FIELD
A rowdy traveler roams the world looking for a fight
By Hank Hersch
It's up to Landon Donovan (again) to carry the load
The costliest racehorse ever has been a huge bust
By Mark Beech
After serving in Iraq, a Marine is living out his baseball dream
As told to Ben Reiter
Something Wicket This Way Comes
Everything bad that can happen in sports is happening to cricket
The Boys of Buzzer
By Marty Dobrow
How much does preseason success really mean?
A two-year college in Miami is the most unlikely superpower in college chess
In the NBA it's not just what you score, but also what you wear
THE QUESTIONS WITH Craig Monroe
TIGERS LEFTFIELDER
Its star shines, but Blades of Glory scores low
By Adam Duerson
The actor plays swimming coach Jim Ellis in Pride
What to watch and watch for
By Chris Mannix
Bret Saberhagen coaches with the same intensity that won him two Cy Young Awards
By Joe Lemire
Walter Henning excels at an obscure—and ancient—sport
2007 NCAA Tournament Final Four
No lead will be safe as, 20 years after the three-point line was introduced to college hoops, a final quartet of trigger-happy teams takes aim at the title in Atlanta
By Grant Wahl
After his poor showing against Florida in last year's title game, UCLA's unheralded big man has plenty to prove in Atlanta
By Phil Taylor
Only two of the Final Four teams were set when SI went to press, but the tournament so far has provided plenty of drama, including ...
Baseball
Two springs after his cameo as a Blue Jays outfielder, SI's Tom Verducci was back in the bigs, this time as an umpire for an Orioles--Red Sox game. All he had to be was perfect. (And what manager, player or fan would ever believe that?)
By Tom Verducci
Pro Basketball
Giving a lift to a city and a franchise still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, Kobe Bryant improvised a fourth consecutive 50-point night before a record crowd in the last NBA game of the season in New Orleans
By Ian Thomsen
Hockey
Uprooted from Florida, Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo has found his groove in Vancouver--and he just might shift the balance in the Western Conference playoffs
Cover Story
Inside
By Peter King
Life of Reilly
By Rick Reilly
Departments
Get ready for a new Tiger Woods