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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.
PHOTO
Erick W. Rasco for Sports Illustrated (book)