LINEUP

NHL PLAYOFFS

36 Jaw-Dropping

Healed and motivated, Sidney Crosby is back and taking a bite out of the playoffs

BY MICHAEL ROSENBERG

PEN PALS

Crosby and friends celebrated his second Game 2 goal at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh during the Penguins' first-round series with the Islanders.

FEATURES

KENTUCKY DERBY

44 Saving Race

Orb's slog to victory brought sunshine to three men who have seen dark days

BY TIM LAYDEN

NBA PLAYOFFS

48 Space Men

A tribute to the perimeter shooters who give the stars room to operate

BY CHRIS BALLARD

• Stephen Curry creates his own space

SPECIAL REPORT

54 Drinking, Driving and Dying

After everything, shouldn't Josh Brent and Jerry Brown have known better?

BY THOMAS LAKE

BASEBALL

62 A Risk Worth Taking

Oakland's bet on Cuba's Yoenis Cespedes is making the A's look smart—again

BY BEN REITER

DEPARTMENTS

4 SI Digital

6 Leading Off

12 The Mail

15 Scorecard

Robbie Rogers's turn?

24 Faces in the Crowd

27 Just My Type

Metta World Peace gets meta

BY DAN PATRICK

68 Point After

Season lost, life saved

BY STEVE RUSHIN

ON THE COVER: Photograph by Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI/Getty Images (Crosby); Rocky Widner/NBAE/Getty Images (Curry)

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