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FEATURES
NBA PLAYOFFS
34 May Madness
With stars young and old excelling, and the top eight teams still in the title hunt, the second round is going to get wild
By Jack McCallum
HORSE RACING
42 Big Is Better
In a Kentucky Derby that ended tragically for one entry, Big Brown was too much horse for the field to handle
By Tim Layden
BASEBALL
46 Snakes Alive
The Diamondbacks' charmed start
By Ben Reiter
COLLEGE LACROSSE
52 Go West, Young Lady
How Northwestern became a power
By L. Jon Wertheim
STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS
58 Teflon Danny
Philly's Daniel Brière muted Montreal
By Brian Cazeneuve
A DANGEROUS BREED OF BEAST
In an excerpt from his book The Downhill Lie, the author takes up golf again, thinking he can only hurt his pride. Wrong. His game threatens South Florida wildlife
BY CARL HIAASEN
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Departments
10 Leading Off
16 Letters
18 Players
• An IndyCar renaissance
• Reporting for NFL duty
• Jose Canseco's literary life
• First Person: Brad Penny
• David Mamet's take on MMA
28 Faces in the Crowd
32 Just My Type
by Dan Patrick
• One that got away for Larry Bird
78 Point After
Johnny and Teresa Tapia: Welcome to the marriage forged in hell
by S.L. Price
Inside ...
74 The NFL
• A rookie linebacker's dream job
77 Baseball
• The Yankees get caught short
PHOTO
JOHN BIEVER (NORTHWESTERN)
52 THE CATS' MEOW Northwestern's three-time champion women's lacrosse team marched off to meet—and beat—North Carolina in Evanston, Ill.
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ILLUSTRATION BY KEITH WITMER