32 BASEBALL
Gone Crazy
The Cardinals and the Red Sox brought the weird in the 109th Fall Classic
By Tom Verducci
40 | PRO FOOTBALL
Luke Kuechly
The Panthers' linebacker is no longer an excellent player on a bad team—he's an excellent player on a captivating sleeper
By Austin Murphy
46 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Oregon-Stanford
The schools couldn't be more different, yet together they have shifted power in the Pac-12 and made an annual impact on the BCS title hunt
By Austin Murphy
56 | LONGFORM
Jeff Lukas
Twenty years ago the son of fabled thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas stood in the path of a charging horse and lost everything. Or did he?
By Tim Layden
2 | SI Digital
4 | Leading Off
10 | The Mail
14 | Scorecard
26 | Faces in the Crowd
28 | Just My Type
Dan Patrick: Donovan McNabb ain't coming back
68 | Point After
Phil Taylor: An Alzheimer's victim finds peace in soccer
SI HAS REGIONAL COVERS THIS WEEK: GEORGE HOLLAND/CAL SPORT MEDIA/LANDOV (OREGON); AL TIELEMANS/SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (WORLD SERIES)
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CALLING CARD Foreign substances? Obstruction? The 2013 World Series has been downright cartoonish.
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