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Features

BASEBALL

34 Zack Greinke

By honing his pitches, L.A.'s King of Nothingness has gotten even better

By Tom Verducci

Departments

4 SI Digital

6 Leading Off

12 Inbox

14 Scorecard

28 Faces in The Crowd

30 Just My Type

Dan Patrick: Kelly Slater on being shark bait

68 Point After

Steve Rushin: A summer bucket list

PRO FOOTBALL

40 Pete Carroll

The coach is moving on after a gutsy call cost his Seahawks a Super Bowl ring

By Greg Bishop

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

48 Shaka Smart

SI got an exclusive look at how the new Texas coach is rebranding the Longhorns

By Brian Hamilton

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

54 Friday Night Lights

Revisiting the six boys, now men, who were the heart of the most celebrated sports book of the last 25 years

By H.G. Bissinger

On the cover: Rod Mar (Carroll); John Iacono for Sports Illustrated (background)

PHOTO

Photograph by Robert Clark For Sports Illustrated

LEADING LIGHTS Three of the book's heroes, (from left) Ivory Christian, Brian Chavez and Mike Winchell, posed at Odessa's Ratliff Stadium.

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Erick W. Rasco for Sports Illustrated (book)