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YEAR IN SPORTS MEDIA
From the champs (The Fighter) to the chumps (The Decision), here's the best and worst of what the world watched, played and read in 2010
MOVIES
Page 20
TELEVISION
Page 26
DIGITAL
Page 28
BOOKS
Page 30
54 PRO FOOTBALL
DO YOU SEE WHAT HE SEES?
Patriots receiver Wes Welker has always seen the world as it might be, turning possibilities into reality
By Charles P. Pierce
62 PRO BASKETBALL
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
The Timberwolves' Kevin Love is rising up and pulling down rebounds at an astonishing rate
By Lee Jenkins
68 HOCKEY
MONTREAL'S MIGHTY MOUTH
Rookie P.K. Subban has talent to burn, but so far he's made more of a mark with his trash talk
By Michael Farber
The Season After
Three Division I-A football-playing brothers banded together to honor the life of their dad
By Austin Murphy
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Departments
6 Letters
10 Leading Off
18 Scorecard
Sportswriting sans sportswriters
38 Faces in the Crowd
42 Just My Type
Jeremy Shockey on tattoos and marriage
By Dan Patrick
46 Inside ...
• College Basketball
UConn's breakout star
• The NFL
Red-zone zones
• College Football
Change at Florida
• Baseball
Older and richer
80 Point After
The importance of Army-Navy
By Joe Posnanski
ON THE COVER
Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale photographed by Michael O'Neill at Church Street Boxing Gym in New York City on Dec. 9, 2010. Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund photographed by Michael O'Neill at Gold's Gym in Chelmsford, Mass., on Dec. 10, 2010.
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