July 23, 2012 Table Of Contents
GOLF PLUS
He may have come up four shots short in his bid for a four-peat in the Quad Cities, but egoless Steve Stricker wasn't complaining
Four years from now golf will be part of the Games and, like everything else, it's all about Tiger
By Damon Hack
What's the deal with Tiger? Will he win five more majors? Who will have a more successful career, Bubba Watson or Webb Simpson? What do you think of Royal Lytham, and what course in Great Britain is your favorite? And who will win the British Open?
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EDITOR'S LETTER
Inside: THE WEEK IN SPORTS
The expanded postseason means almost everyone is still a contender—and the trade market is crowded with buyers
By Albert Chen
By Joe Sheehan
What deals will go down by the July 31 trade deadline? Good question. But here are five mutually beneficial swaps, involving players rumored to be on the block, that should happen
By Joe Sheehan
The NFL's top rusher says a ground game is key to winning. He's right—but teams still have reason to shy away from elite backs
By Jim Trotter
By David Sabino
Shane Doan has been with Phoenix since the team's days in Winnipeg, but if the ownership situation remains murky, he may bolt
Steve Nash in Purple and Gold?
The best and worst of the NBA's silly season, which has been as silly as ever
By Chris Mannix
A few programs have a (long) shot at ending a certain conference's BCS dominance
By Andy Staples
Vegas was buzzing about more than Team USA last week. Meet Andrew Wiggins
By Seth Davis
How peculiar it once seemed that Roger Federer insisted that he was still one of the sport's giants—how peculiar now that we didn't believe him
By S.L. Price
Olympic Preview
By Sarah Kwak
Leading the best U.S. squad ever, Jordyn Wieber and Gabby Douglas will team up—and face off—for glory and gold
By Phil Taylor
By Ian Thomsen
By Tim Layden
By Tim Layden
By Tim Layden
POINT AFTER
By Phil Taylor
Departments
In picking up the pieces of Joe Paterno's football program, Penn State should embark on a new Grand Experiment
The owners made an aggressive opening play in the NHL's labor negotiations
A new documentary probes beneath the romance of Dominican baseball
A cardboard gold mine is unearthed in Ohio
By Dan Greene
Edited by Alexandra Fenwick
An athlete with Down syndrome is (finally) cleared to play again
By Phil Taylor
By Dan Patrick