February 11, 2008 Table Of Contents
SI Bonus Section: Golf Plus
When the Super Bowl, the football season's biggest game, was staged next door to the FBR Open, the best-attended golf tournament in history, seemingly disparate sports cultures coexisted quite nicely
By Damon Hack
Tiger Woods strikes twice
By Jim Gorant
By Jim Suttie
Paul Azinger knows the key ingredient to a winning Ryder recipe
SI Players: LIFE ON AND OFF THE FIELD
Does the quest to know more about athletes—and umps—endanger us all?
By Grant Wahl
As told to Chris Mannix
An undercover cop turned NBA ref tells his tale
What to watch and watch for
By Sarah Kwak
By Dan Patrick
Five Most Memorable Encounters from My Super Bowl Week in Glendale
By Dan Patrick
SUPER BOWL XLII
Behind a ferocious assault on Tom Brady and a final drive for the ages, the upstart Giants broke the unbeaten Patriots in Super Bowl XLII and pulled off one of the NFL's greatest upsets
By Tim Layden
A trio of unheralded pass-catchers, led by David Tyree, keyed the Giants' victory
By Jim Trotter
New York's final drive was a madcap case of crisis management
PRO BASKETBALL
Behind the leadership and late-game heroics of LeBron James, the Cavaliers have shaken off a highly disappointing start and jumped into the Eastern title hunt
By Phil Taylor
BASEBALL
While baseball fixated on the destination of a two-time Cy Young winner, self-effacing Orioles ace Erik Bedard quietly surfaced as an off-season pickup who could make an equally big impact
By Ben Reiter
With pitchers and catchers about to report, here's what you need to know in tracking the off-season's big moves
By Tom Verducci
SQUASH
Led by an obsessive coach and loaded with international talent, the Trinity College squash team has not lost in almost 10 years, building the longest winning streak in college sports history
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
After a series of horrific family tragedies almost caused him to quit school, former backup Darnell Jackson has made himself a frontcourt force for Kansas
By Luke Winn
BOXING
A proud son of Youngstown, Ohio, and the sport's most exciting new force, middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik still draws his strength from the grit and soul of the Steel Valley
Inside
By Chris Mannix
Pierre McGuire's In the Crease
Point After
Departments
Dan Patrick comes to our pages, web and otherwise
By David Bauer