Leading Off

Departments

10 Catching Up With...
12 Letters
14 Faces
19 SI View
100 The Life of Reilly

Scorecard

23

Collins sits
DeBartolo cops
Should the Worm return?
Sackmeister gets blitzed
Providence drops three men's sports
MSL addresses racism
The Jordan Watch

Inside...

67 Soccer
70 College Football
76 The NFL

Baseball

32 Grit vs. Glamour
The down-and-dirty Padres had the vaunted Braves facing elimination in the National League Championship Series
by Michael Bamberger

38 Hot Damn Yankee
David Wells likes his music loud, his drinks cold—and the ball in his hand when the season is on the line, as it was in the American League series
by Tom Verducci