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SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS
The Saints
They beat the favored Colts, gave their city its first NFL title and set off a party that may never end
By Lee Jenkins
PAGE 30
• Gambling is Sean Payton's way
By Peter King
• Saints' D outfoxed Peyton Manning
By Jim Trotter
42 | PRO BASKETBALL
NBA Payrolls
A trade deadline nears, and a bumper crop of free agents awaits the summer, but the possibility of a lockout in 2011 puts a damper on player movement
By Ian Thomsen
46 | OLYMPIC HOCKEY
Mark Johnson
The top scorer on the 1980 Miracle on Ice squad returns to the Winter Games as the coach of the goal-minded U.S. women's team
By E.M. Swift
Departments
4 Letters
6 Leading Off
12 Scorecard
Why Tom Watson is chiding Tiger now
20 Just My Type
Nuggets from Super Bowl week
by Dan Patrick
23 Faces in the Crowd
24 Inside ...
• College Basketball
South Florida's surge
• The NHL
Flames' middle man
• College Football
Top recruiting classes
70 The Vault
Franz Klammer, 1976
74 Point After
What's missing in Peyton Manning?
by Phil Taylor
2010
NASCAR PREVIEW
Denny Hamlin
The Sprint Cup contender (11, below) parties hard and races even harder
By Lars Anderson
PAGE 50
• Jimmie Johnson's chasers
• NASCAR tweaks the rules
Daytona '79
Book Excerpt: The King, the crash and the fight that put NASCAR on the map
By Mark Bechtel
PAGE 58
ON THE COVER Photograph by David Bergman Inset: Fred Vuich
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