Matt Leinart & Reggie Bush, USC Trojans-Sports Illustrated, December 26, 2005-January 2, 2006-The Year In Sports Issue.

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Sports Illustrated, December 26, 2005-January 2, 2006
Price: $5.00 Browse the Magazine CATCHING UP WITH Damon Bailey, Guard DECEMBER 13, 1993 By Bill Syken AIR AND SPACE A Pro's Guide to Heavy Spending By Steve Rushin SI PLAYERS: LIFE ON AND OFF THE FIELD Steve Smith PANTHERS WIDE RECEIVER As told to Elizabeth Newman Who's Hot / Who's Not Edited by Kostya Kennedy Buccaneer Bloodlines By Lisa Altobelli The Pop Culture Grid Edited by Kostya Kennedy THE QUESTIONS WITH Al Harrington Hawks Forward Edited by Kostya Kennedy THE BEST OF 2005 The Year in Sports 2005 Paulie Revered First baseman Paul Konerko experienced a once-in-a-lifetime October, leading the White Sox to their first title in 88 years By Tom Verducci Barry and the Babe By Tom Verducci Class in Session The Colts take on the personality of Tony Dungy, their poised and pioneering coach. That means no wasted breath By Peter King More Need for Speed By Peter King Wrap Star Every team had a crack at lockdown defender Bruce Bowen; the Spurs signed him. That's why they're the champs By Jack McCallum Asking for the World By Jack McCallum March Magic A spate of Did you see that? moments during an NCAA tournament weekend had cellphones ringing across the land By Grant Wahl Duke-UConn Redux By Grant Wahl United Mates Displaying a newfound camaraderie, an inspired U.S. team gave Captain Jack a memorable Presidents Cup victory By Alan Shipnuck New Teen Queens By Alan Shipnuck Foreign Idea Fans may have come to the U.S. Open hoping to see homegrown talent, but a pair of European stars opened their eyes By L. Jon Wertheim Let's Go to the Replay By L. Jon Wertheim Glory at Last After deferring his retirement, U.S. shot putter Adam Nelson finally struck gold at the world championships By Tim Layden Foreboding for Bode Extra Special Look no further than the Harvard-Yale triple-overtime thriller for proof that the NCAA has gotten at least one thing right By Austin Murphy USC: Take Three By Austin Murphy Hot Tickets Two dozen games crammed into 13 days? No problem. SI picks the winners and offers a viewer's guide to which matchups are worth watching Force Majeure In Lance Armstrong's seventh and final triumph in the Tour de France, the race was all but over as soon as he started By Austin Murphy Too Good Not to Win It By Grant Wahl THE YEAR IN SPORTS 2005 Crowd-Pleasers The Liars Club The congressional hearings on steroids in baseball, the bigger-than-sports story of the year, turned into a three-ring circus. And only the clown, Jose Canseco, may have told the truth By S.L. Price Gone But Not Forgotten An array of influential figures from the sports world passed away in 2005, from subtle contributors to trailblazers to true giants in their fields 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas A high-wire experiment in sports fiction, written in nine chapters, sequentially, by nine SI authors, wherein a fast-fading pugilist suddenly finds himself in the bout of his life. Read on.... By Jack McCallum BEST OF THE WORST 2005 Fifth Annual Too True To Be Good For 12 long months, Steve Rushin rummaged the depths of sports to unearth these nuggets of surreal news from 2005 By Steve Rushin INSIDE Inside: The Week In Sports The NFL By Peter King King's Corner By Peter King Dr. Z's Forecast: Skins Alive By Paul Zimmerman The NBA By Ian Thomsen Ian Thomsen's Fast Break By Ian Thomsen College Basketball By Grant Wahl College Football By Austin Murphy STEWART MANDEL'S Two-Minute Drill By Stewart Mandel The NHL By Michael Farber Pierre McGuire's In The Crease By Pierre McGuire Inner Demons Freestyle skier Jeret (Speedy) Peterson has overcome personal hardships to become a gold medal favorite in Turin By Brian Cazeneuve LIFE OF REILLY A Matter Of Heart By Rick Reilly DEPARTMENTS Keeping the Faith With an upset of No. 1 Nebraska, Washington's true believers went from also-rans to national champs By Jeffri Chadiha Letters Saints Elsewhere Despite leading the NFL in evictions, distractions and uncertainty, the storm-blown New Orleans players are hanging together By Michael Silver Buzzer-Beatin' Gifts Need sensible last-minute suggestions for that sports fan on your list? Good luck. What follows is something else entirely Edited by Stephen Cannella For the Record Edited by Stephen Cannella Close, but No Cigar The U.S. bars Cuba, one of the world's best teams, from the World Baseball Classic By Albert Chen Born Too Late One of the world's top figure skaters--Japan's Mao Asada--is too young for the Olympics By Yi-Wyn Yen Cracking Down Prosecutors are rewriting the rules and getting aggressive in their pursuit of drug-using athletes By Tim Layden Q&A: Dale Murphy The two-time NL MVP, 49, is the author of The Scouting Report, a how-to guide to negotiating life as a professional athlete By Richard Deitsch The Beat By Adam Duerson The Weeks Ahead What to watch and watch for By Chris Mannix Faces in the Crowd Edited by Stephen Cannella Fantasy Watch By David Sabino