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Contents: Baseball – A Call To Arms (After a generation of bloated offense the men on the mound have restored balance to the game. Go ahead, hurlers. It’s time to party like it’s 1991), (The Rockies Ubaldo Jimenez is as good as it gets) 2010 World Cup – Team USA (As the U.S. soccer team takes stock of it’s round-of-16 departure and regroups for the future, it rues a golden opportunity squandered in South Africa) Tennis – Wimbledon Marathon (John Isner and Nicolas Mahut fought a historic, 11-hour match that had the world watching and lit up the first week at the All England Club) Pro Basketball – DeMarcus Cousins (The Kings are gambling that this Kentucky freshman, with both supreme skills and suspect maturity, can become a dominating center) NASCAR Midseason Report – Drivers’ Roundtable (Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin and Greg Biffle discussed racing, wrecking and the state of their sport) Gulf Oil Spill – 7 Days In The Life Of A Catastrophe (The author spent a week reporting in Louisiana, looking for a sports story. He found much more) Departments – Leading Off, Letters, Scorecard (The centennial of a notorious title bout), Just My Type (Coach Cal on the Cats and the Cavs), Faces In The Crowd, Inside…(Track and Field, Baseball, Swimming), The Vault (Wimbledon final ’80), Point After (What golf has done for an autistic boy)
Cover: Roy Halladay, Josh Johnson & Ubaldo Jimenez
Condition: Very Good