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44 | COLLEGEFOOTBALL
Seismic Shift in The Sooner State
Oklahoma State was on top after manhandling Georgia for its biggest openingwin, then saw Oklahoma and Heisman winner Sam Bradford get flattened by BYU
By Albert Chen
48 Getting InGear
Quarterback Greg McElroy needed a half to get 'Bama rolling past VirginiaTech
By Lars Anderson
50 Kid's GotGame
Matt Barkley, USC's true freshman QB, was unflappable in his debut
By Austin Murphy
53 Don't ForgetUs
Boise State and Kellen Moore stifled Oregon to make an early BCS statement
By George Dohrmann
54 | BASEBALL
A Remarkable Recovery
Inspired by the memory of Nick Adenhart—and the miraculous return to health ofhis friend Jon Wilhite—L.A. has overcome a bleak start to seize control of theAL West
By Lee Jenkins
60 | TRACK ANDFIELD
Dick Fosbury And His Flop
As a gawky teenager in the 1960s he just wanted to find something to excel at.Little did he know he would become an Olympic champ and turn a sport literallyupside down
By Richard Hoffer
Departments
4 Leading Off
12 Letters
14 Scorecard
• The almighty AL
• The prescient Pats
24 Just My Type
Bobby Bowden: 79 going on 55
by Dan Patrick
26 Faces in theCrowd
30 Inside ...
• Horse Racing
Alexandra the Great
• Soccer
The U.S.'s strike force
• Tennis
Serving up upsets
• The NFL
Late shift in Buffalo
• College Football
A bowl for Baylor?
• NASCAR
A hobbled dark horse
70 The Vault
• Archie Fever in 1970
74 Point After
These days, a hero's work is never done
by Selena Roberts
Kaleb Eulls's lifechanged after a bus ride (POINT AFTER, page 74).
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