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Anglers, Bowlers, Pool Sharks and Cowboys May Get Paid Like Athletes, But Do They Really Make the Grade? SPORT Puts Them To The Test FORGIVE ME FOR ASKING SUCH A […]

Heard About the Next Great 7-Foot-Plus Import Headed for NBA Stardom? We're Still Waiting for the First Legit One THIS IS A STORY ABOUT VERY, VERY, very, very, very tall […]

Sometimes The Best Way to Get Ahead Is to Drop Back ... As Long As You Know What You're Doing SPORT WRITER SCOTT BURTON AND HIS PECULIAR SCANDINAVIAN FRIEND, Jorgen […]

Boston's Nomar Garciaparra Is Already One of Basebal's Best But He's Really Just a Big Little Kid THE POOR KID. THE POOR, SILLY, STUPID KID. HE'S GOT A HECK OF […]

HEY, WE KNOW HOLLYWOOD FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY DOESN'T LOOK terribly complicated: Throw a haymaker. Take a haymaker. Throw a haymaker. Take a haymaker. Spit blood. Repeat. But believe former "Homicide" star […]

JEREHY ROENICK What's your oscar pick for movie of the year? I like The Green Mile. It just moves you, and not many movies move you anymore. What movie could […]

Liz Taylor was hot once, and even in her "golden years," she is still mildly appealing. Nonetheless, if she and nubile Liv Tyler were presented at our doorstep, we don't […]

Not All Children Are Created Equal. Hence, Our Discovery of the Five Sports Careers For Your Athletically Challenged Youngster MY DEAREST SON CEDRIC, Welcome to the family. Now, here's the […]

VIDEO GAME: NBA BASKETBALL 2000 Maker: Fox Sports Interactive Platform: Sony PlayStation, PC 8 Fox Sports Interactive delivers its sports titles much like Fox Sports delivers the news: a bit […]

1. Pete Rose: What, did Supercuts ban him for life too? 2. Petr Korda: How can a haircut be snotty? 3. Randy Johnson: Could pass for a Bad Company roadie […]

VIDEO GAMES Game: Knockout Kings 2000 Maker: EA Sports Platform: Sony PlayStation, N-64 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 This might be the game of […]

Which Sports Highlight Shows Make the Grade? SPORT Sizes Them Up OH, YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SMIRK on Kenny Mayne's face and the juvenile antics of Steve Lyons, and of […]

Don McNeal Couldn't Take Down John Riggins on the Most Pivotal Play in Super Bowl History. But Would the Missed Tackle Take Down McNeal? DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW […]

Iowa at Indiana on Jan 18: Our only wish is for Steve Alford to throw the chair. At Bobby Knight. Twice.... Why's it always got to be seven to 10 […]

WHEN BARRY ALVAREZ "COACHED" A Wisconsin game from his hospital bed, it opened a whole new way of looking at sports. Here are SPORT's ideas for other places from where […]

Why Is It That We Get a Good Super Bowl About as Often as We Elect a President? IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE BREAKING NEWS HERE, but the Big Game bites. […]

THREE OF THE FOLLOWING ARE actual infomercial products, descriptions and their actual athlete endorsers. Three are from the minds of SPORT. Can you separate fact from fiction? 1. Come Gamble […]

Book: Slo Mo! Author: Rick Reilly Publisher: Doubleday & Company Price: $23.95 The premise of Slo Mo is intriguing enough. A 7-foot-8 freak of nature who grew up isolated in […]

HERE, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, ARE THOSE THINGS PAVEL BURE SAYS HE CAN'T CONTROL: RUMORS, allegations, critcism, image, media attention and fan obsession, And here, in very particular order, because […]

Part Three Wise Men, Part Three Stooges, ESPN's 'College GameDay' Crew Fuels TV's Most Entertaining Football Preview Show OH, MY. THE RAVENOUS TENNESSEE fans to my left are chanting, "Wide […]

SPORT Handicaps Rivalry Weekend With Some Can't-Miss Tips HATE, THEY TELL YOU, IS A STRONG WORD. BUT ON NOV. 20, IT HARDLY will be strong enough. And while Harvard-Yale, Lehigh-Lafayette […]

What Happened When Our Naive Young Writer Hit the Set of Keanu Reeves' New Football Movie? Pure Magic, Baby! I DON'T WANT TO BE A MOVIE STAR. The money, the […]

WARNING: Do NOT read the following if you have no sense of humor or are particularly inclined to be repulsed by sophomoric humor DEATH HAPPENS. "IT'S NEVER FUN," SAYS Melody […]

SPORT'S Holiday Helper: How to Pretend to Listen to the Relatives but Actually Watch the Game Game Situation Holiday gathering with Aunt Bess to your front right whinning, "Is she […]

... and assisting Russell Barbarino will be his cousin Vinnie, formerly of the Sweathogs COLLEGE AUBURN--Named Mark Richards Associate Athletic Director for Compliance CENTRAL FLORIDA--Named La'Tosha Lewis and Kristen Gillespie […]

UCLA AT USC (USC, 34-27-7) Numerically Speaking: USC has lost only one of these meetings in a year ending in "9" (4-1-20 Humorically Speaking: Eight straight failures of USC? That's […]

The NCAA has a problem with apparel company logos being larger than 2 inches on any team's uniform, which might seem like an honorable position. But then consider Tostitos' wall-to-wall […]

Several Powerhouse Programs Find It Tough to Get Off the Schneid in Their Quest to Be the Best TENNESSEE WAS ON IT FOR 47 YEARS, BUT ITS COACH NEVER uttered […]

Game: NCAA GameBreaker 2000 Maker: 989 Sports Platform: PlayStation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 After Keith Jackson's retirement about-face, 989 Spots can't claim that […]

What's It Like to Be Young, Wealthy, Single and Recognized Wherever You Go? SPORT Rounded Up QBs Kordell Stewart, Jake Plummer and Kerry Collins to Find Out A WILD GUESS: […]

Wanna Throw Like a Pro? Here's Everything You need to Know WE WERE TRYING TO BE POLITE, BUT JORGEN OF NORWAY just wasn't listening. "Jorgen," we said, "you grip a […]

Book: Baseball's All-time Best Hitters Author: Michael J. Schell Publisher: Princeton University Press Price: $22.95 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Book: Off Base Author: Andrew […]

Game: Wheaties Sports Trivia Game Price: $29.99 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The answer was obvious, so much so that I had to preface it […]

Bad News for 10 NFL Teams: You've Changed Your QB so You're History NEW TEAM, HE THINKS. FRESH START, HE HOPES. HERE I am, he genuflects, the new starting quarterback […]

Site: www.fantasyleaguessports.com 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Do you know who Jason Maxwell is? Do you, roto punk? We didn't think so, but let […]

Title: Muhammad Ali--In His Own Words Maker: MPI Home Videos Price: $19.98 5 Some boxers sing it, some boxers bring it. Muhammad Ali, of course, did both, though this video […]

Book: Heat Author: Dwight Gooden, with Bob Klapisch Publisher: William Morrow & Company Price: $24 7 Heat delivers all the goods one expects from a celebrity autobiography--some boozin', some cokin', […]

Book: Keepin' It Real Author: Larry Platt Publisher: Avon Price: $24 9 You watch enough of ESPN's "Sports Reporters," read enough Mike Lupica columns, listen to enough talk radio, and […]

Game: NHL Blades of Steel '99 Maker: Konami Platform: Sony PlayStation, N-64, Gameboy Color 9 With an assist from Pittsburgh Penguins star Jaromir Jagr, Konami successfully utilizes motion-capture animation in […]

Game: Cool Boarders 3 Maker: 989 Studios Platform: Sony PlayStation The challenge for a game like Cool Boarders 3 is to appeal to players who have never strapped on a […]

Michael Jordan's The Steak House N.Y.C. Location: Grand Central Terminal, 23 Vanderbilt Ave., New York, N.Y. Reservations: 212.655.2300 Forgive us for asking, your airness: When you were contemplating the menu […]

Book: The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary Author: Paul Dickson Publisher: Harvest Price: $35 Baseball's back, baseball's not back, whatever. It's a meaningless argument, really, because base ball isn't ephemeral--as one […]