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SUPER BOWL XLVII

30 The Maddest Two Minutes

Four of the last five Super Bowls have been decided on the final drive. How would Joe Flacco or Colin Kaepernick handle that kind of pressure?

BY AUSTIN MURPHY

• The best, and worst, last drives

• Super Bowl plotlines

38 Religion in Sports

How Christian athletes reconcile the culture of football with their faith

BY MARK OPPENHEIMER

FEATURES

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

44 VCU'S HAVOC

Not since Nolan Richardson's Arkansas teams hath a program unleashed 40 minutes of hell quite like these men of steal

BY LUKE WINN

SOCCER

48 Hérculez Gómez

MLS soccer was hell for the 30-year-old U.S. striker. Then his career was rescued, amazingly, in one of the world's deadliest cities

BY GRANT WAHL

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

52 Famous Sons

The Te'o saga isn't the only Notre Dame story. Meet Corey Robinson and Torii Hunter Jr. Do their last names ring a bell?

BY ALBERT CHEN

SPECIAL REPORT

58 The Strangest Stuff

It might be snake oil, but there are plenty of athletes who are buying in to these supposed performance enhancers

BY DAVID EPSTEIN AND GEORGE DOHRMANN

DEPARTMENTS

4 SI Digital

6 The Mail

8 Leading Off

16 Scorecard

The cradle of Super QBs is Dela-where?

24 Faces in the Crowd

25 Just My Type

Les Miles talks recruiting strategy

BY DAN PATRICK

68 Point After

Sports have special meaning for inmates

BY JEFF DESKOVIC

ON THE COVER: Ray Lewis photographed in Florida in 2006 by Michael O'Neill

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CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Johnny Unitas, godfather of the two-minute drill, hushes the crowd during the Colts' championship-clinching drive against the Giants in 1958.