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January 9, 2017 Table Of Contents
INBOX
NFL
What We Think About When We Think About Big Ben
By S.L. Price
COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW
AFTER 12 MONTHS, 14 WEEKS OF ACTION AND 41 BOWL GAMES, THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF WILL TAKE US RIGHT BACK TO WHERE WE WERE AT THE START OF 2016—ALABAMA VS. CLEMSON. AND THAT SHOULD BE AWESOME
By Andy Staples
AMERICAN VOICES
By Lee Jenkins
Mason and Graham
By Luke Winn
No one is running away with the 2017 player of the year award, but this quintet is setting the pace in a race that figures to be one of the tightest ever
SI TRUE CRIME
By Dan Greene
POINT AFTER
NFL Playoffs: Choose Your Own Adventure
By Jack Dickey
Departments
The NFL season got off to a rough start, but to the delight of the honchos in New York, America's Team rode to the rescue just in time
By Jack Dickey
Emergency goalie Jorge Alves gets in
By Alex Prewitt
Who leads the leagues in coaching caroms?
Prognostications for the year ahead
Falling for CrossFit
Edited by JEREMY FUCHS
By JEREMY FUCHS
By CHRIS JOHNSON