May 07, 2012 | Volume 116, Issue 19

I think Bubba Watson showed great humility after winning the Masters when he said, "I never got this far in my dreams." So many athletes talk about how they always dreamed of winning that it makes...

After a lockout-abbreviated NBA season proved to be a happy accident, it's time to consider always playing just 66 games

AshleyMadison.com, a dating website for people who want to have affairs, offered a $1 million reward to any woman who could prove that she has had sexual relations with self-professed virgin Tim...

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Who has the better chance of living up to his new contract?

Some big names have been felled by injury, but U.S. hoops remains the London favorite

A pitch-perfect look at the knuckler highlights the Tribeca Film Festival's sports-movie lineup

"No, because I never shot up a strip club."

An MLB exec logs miles for the workers who built his stadium

HALEY CROUSER

By finishing with 23 straight losses (three short of the 2010--11 Cavs' NBA record), coach Paul Silas's 7--59 Bobcats claimed the league's worst single-season winning percentage, .106, putting...

MODERN-DAY SLUGGER

The Ravens' Ray Lewis told me QBs entering the NFL have a different set of skills than rookies did 10 years ago. "College quarterbacks are throwing 60 times a game," Lewis said. "They're basically...

Think Andrew Luck has it tough? All Ryan Tannehill has to do is be Dan Marino and make the Dolphins forget the past decade

Thanks to the new rookie wage scale, the 2012 draft saw unprecedented movement: 102 of the 221 noncompensatory picks were involved in trades, including six of the top 10. But who gets the best of...

Draft grades? Meaningless right now. But there are insights to be gleaned

Whether or not the Grizzlies can repeat last year's playoff success will come down to whether their two stars learn to coexist

BULL RUN

What does Houston's Chris Snyder (career average: .229) have in common with the Splendid Splinter? Now even he sees defenses deploy radical alignments to stop him. The Ted Williams Shift—it isn't...

MLB's most frequent shifters (ranked by shifts used in 2012)

In 2011, Milwaukee used 170 infield shifts, most in the NL; in '10 it used 22, fewest in the majors. Perhaps not coincidentally, the Brewers went from the NL's second-worst team as measured by the...

In April it's not how good or bad a team's record looks. The quality of a club's opponents might say more about its long-term chances for contending

The BCS is finally dead, and while the NCAA debates the new playoff model, SI has the plan that would be best for all

1 LSU

Last season's scandal did little to hurt UCLA's recruiting

The best of the rest of the recruiting classes

After being supplanted in the net, the veteran goalie's tenure in Vancouver appears to be over. Here's where he might land

Stealthy sniper Ray Whitney has led league-owned Phoenix's improbable playoff run

Special teams have been crucial in this year's postseason. The Capitals upset the Bruins to reach the second round in large part because of their vastly improved penalty kill, which ranked 21st...

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The up-and-down, but always entertaining, career of Bernard Hopkins is coming to a close. Or perhaps it isn't

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No driver is dominating the Cup series now for one very simple reason: Everybody is already focused on the Chase

The Waiting Is The Hardest Part

TITLE IX'S IMPACT HAS REACHED WELL BEYOND THE PLAYING FIELD, FOREVER CHANGING THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY. AS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAW APPROACHES, SI EXAMINES NINE STORIES THAT REFLECT THE...

The Atlanta Games inspired women's professional leagues in three sports

How the law has evolved through 40 years of legal challenges

In 1976, 19 Yale rowers bared it all for equality

Maria Pepe's persistence opened up Little League fields far beyond Hoboken, N.J.

Born the same year as Title IX, these three Olympians are deepening its impact

The legislation's staying power is the direct result of an attempt to dismantle it

The Battle of the Sexes resonated far beyond tennis

Women were intramural afterthoughts until the AIAW was formed in 1971

A girl's best friend in the fight for playing time was often her dad

Given one of the first scholarships, in swimming, Sharon Berg made it count

Andrew Rodriguez is such an amateur. Doesn't he realize that, having completed a stellar career as a college linebacker, he's supposed to be preoccupied with his pro prospects? While other top...

Let's settle this once and for all: Is the PGA Tour's flagship event the FIFTH MAJOR? Well ... sort of. Here's a mostly modern, primarily ripped-from-the-pages history of the contenders and the...

THE OLD GUYS

The hook shot from the pines was an alltimer, but it is only part of the reason Masters champ Bubba Watson has been so thoroughly embraced

What's the deal with Tiger? Should the Tour kill sudden death at the island green? What did we learn at the Masters? And who will win the 39th Players Championship?

Sunday at TPC Sawgrass is Mother's Day, and no woman has balanced the demands of the game and parenthood with more grace than Barbara Nicklaus

Dewey Arnette, a Tour pro turned golf whisperer, commutes seven hours a day to his teaching job in Florida, and that might be the least interesting thing about him

The tournament is named for the guys on the course. It's their thing, and no one represents today's Tour pro better than Nick Watney

EDITOR James P. Herre

A near-death experience involving his wife and newborn son in 2003 served as an epiphany for Phil Mickelson. Since then the four-time major champion has quietly used his wealth and position to...

The Teenager

With its improved course, fabulous food, alluring nightlife (O.K., gambling) and tolerable pro-am, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans is enjoying a revival not unlike the one the city is experiencing

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Less than a week before his wedding and in his 164th Tour start, unflappable Jason Dufner broke through for his first win

Born Berlin

Born Fort Worth, Texas

Born Shrewsbury, England

Born Savannah

Think you have all the answers when it comes to the PGA Tour's flagship event? Only an expert can ace this ultimate test