August 27, 2007 Table Of Contents
Fantasy Plus
SI Players: LIFE ON AND OFF THE FIELD
Preseason polls bend college football out of shape
Colt Brennan ... Paradise Found
As told to Adam Duerson
Handicapping the recent spate of sports-related lawsuits
Two NHLers try to help in Tanzania
THE QUESTIONS WITH Mike Redmond
TWINS CATCHER
Pro volleyballers find love on the beach
By Joe Lemire
A film about boxing and truth swings and misses
By Adam Duerson
By Adam Duerson
Watch to watch and watch for
By Sarah Kwak
The Cox Countdown
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Fed up with mediocrity and losing to Auburn, the Alabama faithful welcome Nick Saban as a coach tough enough to bring back the glory of the Bear
By Rick Bragg
Baseball
Big Papi has rediscovered his power stroke, and the Red Sox boast baseball's best record. So why is New England dwelling on that familiar, unsettling sight in the rearview mirror?
By Tom Verducci
U.S. Open Preview
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are as different as two fierce foes could be, but in one thing they're identical: Neither man will take a verbal shot at the other
Can't tell all the Eastern Europeans apart in the women's draw? Here's help
2008 Beijing Olympics
Former high school phenom Alan Webb could cap his best year yet with a gold medal in the 1,500 at the worlds. But the longer road leads to Beijing-and beyond
By Tim Layden
High School Football
Todd Dodge left Southlake Carroll with a 48-game win streak, but his boy Riley, the quarterback who led the team to its third straight Texas 5A title last year, is entrusted with keeping the dynasty alive
By Jon Mahoney
NEW ORLEANS
Sports played a special role in the early stages of the New Orleans recovery, but beyond the Superdome, in battered, depopulated areas such as the Lower Ninth Ward, there is a great need to get the city's at-risk youth back in play
Inside
By Peter King
Life of Reilly
By Rick Reilly