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Sports Illustrated
September 7, 2000 |
The life of an NBC researcher In the next month nobody will have earned their stripes more than the network's Olympic researchers, the unsung heroes genetically altered to function without sleep while keeping encyclopedic recall of split times, hometowns and superstitions at their forever-typing fingertips...   |
Sports Illustrated
September 5, 2000
Rick Reilly |
Rack Off, Seppos! (Yankees, Go Home!) We were told these Olympics would be wonderful. Hardly. If it's raining palaces, we just got hit by the outhouse door. |
Sports Illustrated
September 5, 2000 |
Fun and games with athletes There are 60 pinball machines, 40 video games, four air-hockey boards, four foosball tables, a dozen pool tables and every conceivable means of vicarious stress relief an athlete could want before battle. Let's take a tour of the game room at the Athletes Village in Sydney. |
Sports Illustrated
September 4, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Previewing the opening ceremony The opening of the Olympics. |
Sports Illustrated
September 3, 2000 |
A peek inside the Athletes Village Welcome to the Athletes Village, home to more than 15,000 athletes, coaches and team officials during the Sydney Games... |
Sports Illustrated
August 29, 2000
Rick Reilly |
Bare in Mind All the prude uproar about Olympic gold medalist swimmer Jenny Thompson's revealing photo shoot in SI is misplaced. Thompson sends young girls a terrific message: Fit is sexy. Muscles are sexy. Sport is sexy. Give it a try sometime. |
Sports Illustrated
August 23, 2000
Frank Deford |
Do athletic beauties defy stereotypes? Most arguments about sex, like sex itself, involve both sexes. But currently, a discussion about sexiness in women's sports is pretty much an intra-gender conversation that's only between the ladies. The gentlemen, including this one, are standing on the sidelines, happy only to watch. |
Sports Illustrated
August 16, 2000
Frank Deford |
Sydney Olympics must overcome The Sydney Olympics are a month away, so let's look at the problems they face in attracting their usual high degree of interest in the United States. |
Sports Illustrated
August 3, 2000 |
IOC to target EPO dopers ...the International Olympic Committee will conduct tests for the cutting-edge performance enhancer erythropoietin... |
Sports Illustrated
August 2, 2000
Frank Deford |
All sports trends shall come to pass There is a lamentable tendency for the smarty-pants experts to get carried away by some attractive new sports champion and presume that that achievement must somehow portend great and broad significance. In fact, in the culture of sports, there is rarely much change at the top. |
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