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Contents: Where Are They Now – 1958: Willie Mays (The Say Hey Kid remains a baseball man at heart), Richard Petty (50 years after his first race, he’s still sovereign of the speedways), 1968: Alex Karras (The fierce tackle turned actor in Paper Lion stops to smell the roses), John Carlos (After Mexico City he went from pariah to hero – at a high cost), 1978: Bucky Dent (Hey, Red Sox fans, isn’t the wall at his baseball school familiar), Bill Rodgers (The marathon champion has fought through cancer), 1988: Jim Abbott (The one-handed Olympic pitcher inspires athletes with disabilities), Bull Durham (Did Crash and Annie last? Would Motley Crue end Nuke’s dreams?), 1998: Anna Kournikova (A decade after hijacking tennis as a brash teen, she’s grown up), Robert Edwards & John Avery (The NFL first-rounders found redemption in an unlikely place), Where Will They Be? (You don’t know the names of these 15 teens just yet, but you will – and soon), Special Report – Big Bucks In Sports (Teams depend on smart management – financial and otherwise. SI looked at how each one spent its payroll dollars), Tennis – The Spin Master (Tweaking his game for Wimbledon’s grass, Rafael Nadal edged Roger Federer), Track And Field – What A Country! (Led by Bernard Lagat, foreign-born runners swept the 1,500 at the U.S. trials), Swimming – What A Comeback! (Youth was served at the trials, but Dara Torres, at 41, made an epic-splash) Departments – Leading Off, Letters, Players (A writer gets his NFL kicks * Randy Moss’s hot wheels * Matt Leinart stays in shape * First Person: Chris Samuels), Faces In The Crowd, Just My Type (Brett’s unretirement community), Point After (Cool passed away last month. The cause of death was pumped fists and chest bumps)
Cover: “Nadal Defeats Federer In The Greatest Tennis Match Ever”
Condition: Very Good
