SI.com

Breaking News •Real-time Scores • Daily Analysis

Ready for PrimeTime

This week, as theALCS heats up and Phillies second baseman Chase Utley and Dodgers pitcher DerekLowe battle in the NLCS, check out previews of both series from BaseballProspectus as well as daily coverage from SI.com. Plus ...

• Five Cuts fromTom Verducci

• Daily Scoopfrom Jon Heyman

• Breakdowns ofevery game by special contributor Cliff Corcoran

MORE ANALYSIS BYWRITERS LEE JENKINS, ALBERT CHEN AND JOHN DONOVAN AT SI.COM/MLB.

FEATUREDWRITERS

PETER KING

Inside the NFL
After a wild Week 5, a look ahead to all the games in Week 6
SI.com/king

STEWARTMANDEL

Inside CollegeFootball
Breaking down No. 1 Oklahoma's pass-happy offense
SI.com/mandel

JOE POSNANSKI

Inside CollegeFootball
A profile of Missouri QB Chase Daniel, a Heisman favorite
SI.com/posnanski

SPORTS AND THEECONOMY

What the DownturnMeans
With the financial crisis spreading, how will the average fan afford tickets tothe new, $1.6 billion Yankee Stadium? SI reporter Pablo S. Torre's essayincludes analysis from top economists and interviews with the holders of seasontickets. Also learn how the market instability will affect the NBA, the NHL,NASCAR, college football and high school sports.

> Weigh in onsports and the economy in SI.com's fan poll.

SI VAULT
YOUR LINK TO SPORTS HISTORY

FROM SPORTSILLUSTRATED
OCTOBER 12, 1970

SI writer GeorgePlimpton profiled defensive tackle Alex Karras, who at 35 led the Lions to a3--0 start.

AND WHAT of AlexKarras, the old rogue, the great Lion in the final years of his extraordinaryand tumultuous career? This year he turned up at training camp a surprisinglychanged figure. True, there were the usual preseason rumbles and observations.Karras is a man who speaks his mind and is frequently occupied without-of-the-way matters: He ran a golf tournament to benefit cystic fibrosis inFlint, Mich., last June, during which a cannon was shot off from time to timebehind the first tee to keep, as he put it, "the golfers on theirtoes"; there were his usual salary complaints; a few digs at commissionerPete Rozelle; a threat to give up football and retire in Iowa; an appearance ina weird TV commercial in which he picked up a small sports car and held itupside down to drain its gas tank into a bucket; and his admission on TheTonight Show of his boyhood terror of playing against older kids who had"hairy bodies."

> Check outthe latest classic SI story at SI.com/classic.

> for yourfavorite stories and covers, go to SI.com/vault.

Cover
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT BECK (RAMIREZ) AND PETER GREGOIRE (HOSSA)

INSET PHOTOS:Richey Miller/Cal Sport Media (McCoy); Matthew Emmons/US Presswire(Bradford)

For reprints ofSI covers, visit SIcovers.com.

SI Extra
To sign up for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's free subscriber-only e-mail newsletter, goto sicustomerservice.com/siextra.

Please RecycleThis Magazine Remove Inserts or Samples Before Recycling

PHOTO

MARK J. REBILAS/US PRESSWIRE (LOWE)

BIG SHOW Will Lowe (left) or Utley prevail?

PHOTO

AL TIELEMANS (UTLEY)

[See caption above]

PHOTO

MARK LENNIHAN/AP (STADIUM)

PHOTO

MEL LEVINE (KING)

PHOTO

MEL LEVINE (MANDEL)

TWO PHOTOS