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Contents: Special Double Issue Baseball – Fuel on the Fire (With Curt Schilling in the mix, the Yanks-Red Sox rivalry is hot already) Pro Basketball – Rooked? (He may not be Rookie of the Year, but Carmelo Anthony is in the playoffs) Hockey – Nameless in San Jose (Jonathan Cheechoo and the anonymous Sharks hunt the Cup) Pro Football – River’s Edge (N.C. State QB Philip Rivers has the moxie to succeed in the NFL) 50th Anniversary – The Pictures – Perfect Tens (A decade-by-decade gallery of classic SI shots, introduced by Frank Deford.), Playing with Time (The best sports photos stop the clock, forever; Joe Namath is still No. 1, and Jackie Robinson is still stealing home.), That Magic Moment (To understand what makes a great picture by Neil Leifer, look at what fell to the cutting room floor.), Flash of Inspiration (By pushing their craft to its limits, SI shooters created a new way of seeing/), How We Did That (To capture the two minutes of the Kentucky Derby, Bill Frakes needs only three days and 47 cameras.), Appeal of the Peel (Walter Iooss Jr.’s Polaroids – the rough drafts of his portraits – are a bit like Picasso’s sketchbooks.) Departments – Leading Off, Contributors, Letters (No April fools here, thank you), Air And Space (Riding the rails to the old ball game), Scorecard (Swimmers honor Councilman, Jayson Williams trial nears end, The hockey player and the hitman, Jim Caviezel: Jesus to Bobby Jones), Faces In The Crowd, The Life Of Reilly (Against youth sports, does Sunday School have a chance?) SI‘s 50th Anniversary – Spring Fling (Daredevils go to New Hampshire’s Mount Washington to hike up and ski down) Inside… – College Football (Will Berlin be the Hurricanes QB?), Baseball (Marlin’s Cabrera keeps improving), The NBA (Still-hungry Wolf is SI’s MVP)
Cover: 50th Anniversary
Condition: Very Good, No Address Label
