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Contents: Baseball – World Premiere (Barry Bonds and the Angels lived up to their billings – and made the Fall Classic a showstopper) College Football – What’s Up, Joe Pa? (Penn State coach Joe Paterno is letting loose on refs and letting it rip on offense) Horse Racing – Horse Power (Heading into the Breeders’ Cup trainer Bob Baffert, like him or not, is the king of his world) Pro Football – All Business (Eagles cornerback Troy Vincent works as hard at making money as he does at making plays) Special Double Issue. NBA Preview 2002-03 – The New Mr. Big (The search for an answer to Shaq continues. Can Rockets rookie Yao Ming measure up?); A Big Start (Staking the future on two raw 7-footers, the Bulls hope the payoff is huge); Frankenshaq (We have turned to mad science and created a beast to stem the onslaught of Shaquille O’Neal); The Big Show (It’s in his role as court thespian that Kings center Vlade Divac really start); Scouting Reports (The lowdown on every team, plus SI‘s conference rankings, Player Value Ratings and postseason predictions) Departments – Leading Off; Letters (Our readers on America’s best sport colleges); Contributors; Catching Up With…; Air And Space (Who’s sorry now? Certainly not athletes); Scorecard (In Washington, D.C., this is the season of the sniper * The MLS Championship was a red, white and blue success * There is something for every sports fan at the Museum of Sex * The Show: The World Series, Terrell Owens and Karl Malone); Faces In The Crowd; The Life Of Reilly (Dawn of a new day for sports fans: their own Bill of Rights) Inside… – The NHL (Young Penguin gets a boost; Flyers star back on his game; Rule changes paying off big); The NFL (Cris Carter back in uniform; Texans count out Tony Boselli; Dr. Z’s weekly forecast)
Cover: “Yao Ming – The Next BIG Thing”
Condition: Very Good
