August 20, 2012 Table Of Contents
GOLF PLUS
A win at the PGA Championship puts Rory McIlroy right where Tiger Woods was at the same age, but with a swing like Snead's and a temperament like Nelson's, the joyful Ulsterman is taking an entirely different tack in his pursuit of golfing greatness
When you're Tiger Woods and keep coming up short in the only championships that matter, you have to get creative when explaining why
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LEADING OFF
THE MAIL
THE LONDON GAMES
By Ian Thomsen
By Grant Wahl
By Tim Layden
TRAINING CAMPS
THIS ONE TIME, AT TRAINING CAMP
The road from late July to early September is long and winding, and it bypasses Chicago and New Orleans for Bourbonnais and Metairie. Let SI's football guru be your NFL training camp guide
TAYLOR AND CONE
TO ZACH CONE AND JOHNATHAN TAYLOR—BEST FRIENDS, GEORGIA TEAMMATES AND BASEBALL BROTHERS—THERE IS NO TIME TO DWELL ON THE MOMENT THAT LEFT ONE OF THEM PARALYZED AND CHANGED BOTH THEIR LIVES FOREVER. DESPITE THEIR DIVERGENT PATHS, THEY ARE STILL FELLOW TRAVELERS
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW
THE SABANIZATION OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Alabama's Nick Saban has established a total-control, detail-oriented, evaluation-to-graduation system, and now that the Tide has won its second national title in three years, the imitators have arrived
By Andy Staples
By Lee Jenkins
Your 2012 College Football Menu. Tangy, spicy, sweet-all you can eat. Check out our new drink specials
By Mark Beech
By Albert Chen
By Andy Staples
SI's 2012 PRESEASON ALL-AMERICA TEAM
By Matt Gagne
By Dan Greene
By Dan Greene
By Albert Chen
By Dan Greene
By Dan Greene
POINT AFTER
The Descent From Mount Olympus
By Phil Taylor
Departments
After much drama, Dwight Howard is taking his act to the only big tent in the NBA that's spacious enough to contain him
By Lee Jenkins
Fill-in NFL referees are making a mockery of the preseason. This has to end soon—right?
By Ben Reiter
The IOC will miss the sober leadership of Jacques Rogge
Edited by Alexandra Fenwick
A detention camp's famous football team could be playing its final season
By Dan Patrick