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NBA PLAYOFFS

38 Stephen Curry

His incendiary shooting has propelled the Warriors to the conference finals

By Lee Jenkins

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS

46 The Late Show

A whirlwind of zero-sum insanity: There's nothing better than overtime

By Steve Rushin

PRO FOOTBALL

52 Chip Kelly

The NFL's most innovative thinkers tend to look, at first, like the craziest

By Greg A. Bedard

OLYMPICS

58 Dive Bombers

Two U.S. divers at the 1936 Berlin Games retook to the air to battle the Führer

By L. Jon Wertheim

Departments

6 SI Now

8 Leading off

The 50th anniversary of Ali-Liston II

16 Inbox

18 Scorecard

25 Faces in the Crowd

26 Just My Type

Dan Patrick: Rory McIlroy still buys his own beer

68 Point After

Michael Rosenberg: A way to pay out A-Rod's bonus

ON THE COVER:

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PHOTO

Photograph by Al Tielemans For Sports Illustrated

TOUGH MUDDER American Pharoah (far right) carried jockey Victor Espinoza to victory on a sloppy Preakness track (page 18).