Lineup

Departments

2 SI Digital

4 Inbox

6 Leading Off

13 Scorecard

22 Faces in The Crowd

25 Just My Type

Dan Patrick: Browns QB Brian Hoyer on job security

64 Point After

Alexander Wolff: Putting our lives on pause for live sports

PRO FOOTBALL

32 The Cowboys' D

Dallas is 5--1—and tied for the NFC's best record—thanks to a suddenly (sort of) formidable unit

By Greg Bishop

BOOK EXCERPT

38 Parcells

The Hall of Fame coach discusses a betrayal that still fuels a rivalry

By Bill Parcells and Nunyo Demasio

BASEBALL

44 Bud Selig

The commissioner has no regrets about how he's changed the game

By Ben Reiter

• ALCS: Reign of Cain

• NLCS: The quiet ace

SPECIAL REPORT

52 Homeless Athletes

How do they survive—or even thrive? Often, it's with the help of sports

By L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

26 Notre Dame

The defense began the season with a new coordinator, a new system and two starters lost to an academic scandal. Now the blitz-happy, unbeaten Irish get a monster of a midterm

By Brian Hamilton

ON THE COVER: KEVIN C. COX/GETTY IMAGES (DAK PRESCOTT); SIMON BRUTY/SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (ISAIAH LAMB)

PHOTO

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW HANCOCK FOR SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

GOLDEN MOMENT A revamped defense has Notre Dame back in the national title picture.