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Contents: College Football – Let’s Play (The season finally kicked off, and no team was happier then the besieged Buckeyes of Ohio State) Pro Football – No Holds Barred (Carolina defensive end Julius Peppers will do whatever it takes to restore his reputation) Basketball – High And Mighty (The U.S. team crushed its hemispheric rivals and qualified for Athens) Baseball – A Whale Of A Weekend (The epic Red Sox-Yankees rivalry was undiminished by yet another New York win in a crucial series) Mental Health – Prisoners Of Depression (Emotional disorders are still stigmatized in pro sports, but there are signs that teams are finally facing the problem) Departments – Leading Off; Letters (Our readers on Bill Parcells); Air And Space (Hello. My name is Steve, and I’m a WNBA groupie); Scorecard ( * Athens’s big fat Olympic problems * Isiah Thomas out of hoops again * Barry Bond’s emotional week * The Show: Expos on Mars?); Faces In The Crowd; The Life Of Reilly (Cover your ears: Someone’s Singin’ the Stretch at Wrigley) SI‘s 50th Anniversary Hearts Racing (The storied track at Darlington, S.C., bids farewell to the Southern 500, a Labor Day tradition) Inside… – Track And Field (Hard world championships for U.S.); Baseball (Guerrero keeps Montreal in hunt); Tennis (U.S. Open’s star-spangled excess); The NFL (Packer’s Clifton back in top form)
Cover: Craig Krenzel
Condition: Very Good
