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Contents: Baseball – Both Sides Beware (In an SI online poll, most voters said they expect a strike, and it will kill their interest in the sport); He’s Arrived (The Yankees’ Alfonso Soriana has had a breakout year (no matter how long it lasts) after taking a wildly unlikely road to the Show); NHL – Cup To The Rescue (As floods ravaged the Czech Republic, four Red Wing players turned a visit by the Stanley Cup into a relief mission); Pro Football – Shop Right (In the first decade of free agency, teams have learned that you don’t have to spend big to win); Golf – Tiger Tamer (Rich Beem came out of nowhere to stare down golf’s dominant player and win an exciting PGA); Olympics – As The Terror Begins (Thirty years later, the hostage drama that left 14 Israelis dead in Munich seems even more chilling) Departments – Leading Off; Catching Up With…; Letters (Our readers on Lance Armstrong); Air And Space (Major league baseball is almost out of fans); Scorecard (* Be the disk: Frisbee designer Ed Headrick’s weird last wish * NFL’s first new helmet in 25 years targets concussions * Complain to L.A. Kings brass and you’ll be wined and dined * Tennis’s Corina Morariu on her return from cancer treatment); Faces In The Crowd; The Life Of Reilly (Patriotism, romance and tests of faith: the demolition derby) Inside… – Baseball (* Arizona’s Spivey has hot bat * Three All-Stars on a roll * Seattle’s Pineiro goes 13-4); Track And Field (* Montgomery beats Greene * U.S. Triple Jumper’s odyssey * Favor Hamilton’s fast 1,500)
Cover: “Alfonso Soriano – The Latest Greatest Yankee (But will his breakout season be cut short)”
Condition: Very Good