Description
Contents: NBA Finals – Road To Redemption (Paul Pierce did much to rehab his image, leading the Celtics to a pair of victories) Baseball – A Jones For Hitting (Chipper flirts with a magical mark) Stanley Cup Finals – Fantastic Finish (The Red Wings’ six-game victory showed how great hockey can be) Horse Racing – Brown Bagged (Another Triple Crown dream ended at the Belmont, as Big Brown labored to last) Soccer – Are You Like Me? (I bet you are. I bet you hate soccer) Tennis – Beauty And The Beast (Two ways to win the French: the brute force of Nadal, the elegance of Ivanovic) Ping Pong – Opening Volley (Ping-Pong diplomacy in 1971 led to the Beijing Games of 2008- but without two unlikely heroes, the summit might never have occurred) Departments – Leading Off, Letters, Players (Risky business in the NFL, Remembering Jim McKay, Kyle Busch’s wild weekend, First Person: Geovany Soto, How to become a cardsharp), Faces In The Crowd, Just My Type (The Boston Knee Party), Point After (The life of a golfing gal: Even the courses that let me play don’t feel welcoming) Inside… – The NFL, Baseball
Cover: Detroit Cup City
Condition: Very Good
