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Contents: The Year In Sports 2008 – Can The Sooners Be Stopped? (Florida has to at least slow the Point-a-minute Oklahoma offense and give its own high-powered attack a chance to run off with the BCS championship); The Best Year Ever (This kind of reckoning is never a science, but let’s do the math. An absurd Super Bowl catch plus a heart-stopping Olympic swim plus the gutsiest golf performance plus the greatest tennis match ever…Yeah, it all adds up); Can’t Make This Up (You really can’t. From a point guard’s fruit-related injury to a third baseman’s wimpy delivery to the throng that launched a thousand – O.K., at least a few – hits, it was another sublime year for the ridiculous); Farewell (The sports world said goodbye to two Steel Curtain linemen, a couple of Brooklyn Dodgers pitchers and a pair of legendary basketball coaches, as well as the singular Kiwi beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest); Happy New Year (Since being rescued 20 months ago from the dogfighting ring financed by Michael Vick, all but a few of the abused pit bulls have been recovering in sanctuary, foster care and adoptive homes) Departments – Leading Off; Letters; Players ( * Moments that mattered in ’08 * A boat rescue on the high seas); Faces In The Crowd; Just My Type; Point After ( * A fresh take on black coaches in college football) Inside… – The NFL (Chad Penningten is SI‘s MVP); The NBA (Five deals that should be done); The NHL (The new threat for the Norris); College Basketball (Duke’s playmaking combo)
Cover: “Vick’s Dogs. The Good News Out Of The Bad Newz Kennels”
Condition: Very Good
