The Woman Who Runs with the Wolves Biologist Diane Boyd has spent 14 years studying the animals in the far reaches of the Rockies By Perri Knize
An Athlete's Ordeal Emir Grci‚àÜí‚àö√ü, a former Bosnian soccer star and a Muslim, barely escaped his troubled homeland By Christopher Merrill
'The Desire Isn't There' Michael Jordan told the press he has nothing left to prove, but that may be only one reason for his abrupt retirement By Jack McCallum
Stretching It Out Philadelphia took a 3-2 series lead over Atlanta in a showdown of two teams that like their action to go long and late By Steve Rushin
Backs to the Wall The hotheaded White Sox got cooled off by Juan Guzman and fell behind the Blue Jays 3-2 By Tom Verducci
One Giant Step Florida State finally beat Miami. Now all it has to do to become national champion is defeat Notre Dame, Florida and five other teams By Sally Jenkins
Kick Start With placekickers deadlier and defenses stingier, NFL games are becoming field goal duels By Peter King
Triumph on Sacred Ground After the Zambian soccer team perished in a plane crash, a new team rose to bring hope to a troubled nation By Leigh Montville
The Arctic Circle Gambit For nearly 1,000 years a tiny, desolate island to the north of Iceland was a hotbed of chess By Michael Finkel
The Iceman's Watering Hole George Woolf's Derby, near Santa Anita, was the great jockey's personal haunt. It may still be By William F. Reed
A Duffer's Shangri-la You can now play the country's best-known holes on one extraordinary course in Texas By Michael Konik
The Indomitable Snowman Norman Vaughan first sledded in Antarctica at 24; he plans a return this year, at 87 By Amy Nutt
Make It A Double The Triple Crown of trotting eluded American Winner when he came up a loser By William F. Reed
Knocked for a Loop For sports fans in the Windy City, it was a turbulent and troubling 48 hours By Rick Telander