February 6, 2012 Table Of Contents
LEADING OFF
THE MAIL
Inside: THE WEEK IN SPORTS
The fortunes of five teams rest on these players, all of whom need to step up
By Chris Mannix
The DH has enabled AL teams to overspend on free-agent sluggers. Now it's time to let the senior circuit play the same game
By Joe Sheehan
The Pac-12 is down (again), but these three smaller conference teams are making an outsized impact
Recovered from a debilitating spinal disorder, hurdler Lolo Jones took a giant leap toward restoring her former luster
SUPER BOWL XLVI PREVIEW
A fourth Lombardi Trophy for Tom Brady and Bill Belichick? A place in the pantheon for Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin? History is on the line in Indy as the Patriots and Giants renew their championship rivalry
By Jim Trotter
The Giants' epic upset of the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII offers valuable lessons—for both teams—this time around
By Tim Layden
A two-time Patriots Super Bowl winner gives the scoop on Bill Belichick's Super Bowl strategies
By Dan Klecko
Three bold decisions by Robert Kraft transformed the Patriots from league laughingstock into the NFL's model franchise
By Peter King
A century ago two Ohio powers, Canton and Massillon, battled for supremacy of professional football. Back then the game was a cross between a three-ring circus and trench warfare, and the players were team-switching mercenaries. The championship series might even have been fixed
TENNIS
In an epic final, Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal to win an Australian Open tournament that stretched the top two players to their limits and reinforced the glorious supremacy of the sport's Fab Four
WILSON RAMOS
By Thomas Lake
POINT AFTER
By Phil Taylor
Departments
Things get ugly in Indy as Peyton Manning and the Colts face what's next
By Tim Layden
Was Yale QB Patrick Witt's story too good to be true? A new report raises troubling questions
A famous NFL flameout finds himself at ease these days at the easel, of all places
By Ben Reiter
Edited by Alexandra Fenwick
By Grant Wahl
By Dan Patrick