Lineup

XXI WINTER GAMES

VANCOUVER 2010

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LINDSEY VONN

No other skier is more versatile—or more resilient

By Tim Layden

58

SHANI DAVIS

The best U.S. speedskater goes it alone

By Alexander Wolff

64

TEAM USA

This bunch couldn't be more eclectic

By Brian Cazeneuve

78

SIDNEY CROSBY

Canada's hockey star was born for this moment

By S.L. Price

86

CANADIAN HOCKEY

It's gold or bust for the home team

By Michael Farber

90

MEDAL PICKS

Every gold, silver and bronze winner

By Brian Cazeneuve

Departments

6 Letters

8 Leading Off

18 Scorecard

Steve Sabol, NFL Films' mythmaker

27 Just My Type

Michael Vick on prison, dogfighting

by Dan Patrick

28 Faces in the Crowd

30 Inside ...

• Tennis

Australia gut checks

• The NBA

Who wants Amar'e?

• College Basketball

Coach back, BYU rolls

102 The Vault

Super John Riggins

106 Point After

NBA strength coach goes back to school

by Chris Ballard

Super Bowl XLIV

40 | New Orleans

The 43-year saga of football in the Big Easy has been a strange trip from sad sacks to Sainthood

by Tim Layden

• Can Peyton Manning be outsmarted?

by Peter King

• Will Dwight Freeney be ready?

by Lee Jenkins

SPLIT COVERS

Lindsey Vonn graces covers in the U.S., Sidney Crosby in Canada.

ON THE COVER

Photographs by Bob Martin (Vonn); Gregory Shamus (Crosby)

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PHOTO

BOB MARTIN (JACOBELLIS)

Vermont's Lindsey Jacobellis is the top U.S. medal hope in women's snowboardcross.

EIGHT PHOTOS