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COLLEGEFOOTBALL
30 Watch Out,Texas!
Oklahoma drubbed Texas Tech to set up a three-way tie with the Longhorns
By Austin Murphy
• The Big 12 race'sBCS implications
PRO FOOTBALL
38 A 'Backer'sMind
SI got inside the head of the Bucs' Derrick Brooks as he prepared for hisbiggest challenge of 2008: Adrian Peterson
By Peter King
PRO BASKETBALL
46 The DreamLife
Andrei Kirilenko thrives as a sub
By Chris Mannix
SOCCER
50 TangoArgentina
Columbus danced to its first MLS title
By Grant Wahl
GOLF
54 A HappyEnding
Annika Sorenstam is ready to move on
By Michael Bamberger
SINGLE WING
OLD IS NEW
NEW IS OLD
Never has the game circled around to its beginnings—Pop Warner, meet RickyWilliams; Ricky, Pop—as it has this fall
BY TIM LAYDEN
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Departments
6 Leading Off
12 From theEditor
14 Letters
16 Players
• In praise of portly pitchers
• A Rhodes Scholar on the road
26 Faces in theCrowd
28 Just My Type byDan Patrick
• The perils of sideline reporting
74 Point After byChris Ballard
• A kingdom for King James
Inside ...
68 The NFL
• Time to take the Jets seriously
72 CollegeFootball
• Rutgers's QB pulls a reverse
73 The NHL
• Replacing a goaltending great
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JOHN BIEVER (OKLAHOMA)
30 HOME RULE Lamar Harris (19) and the Sooners took the field in Norman before their 65--21 wipeout of Texas Tech, which tightened the Big 12 race and clouded the BCS picture.
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UPI/BETTMANN/CORBIS (SINGLE WING)
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HEINZ KLUETMEIER (SINGLE WING)
