ESPN The Magazine Takes a Closer Look at 'Talking Smack' in Professional Sports.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Photo Editors/Sports Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.050103/bb13 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2003 COVER STORY: SmackDown. In professional sports, talking smack is as much a part of an athlete's equipment as his or her uniform. The Magazine talked with four of the yappiest stars, including Philadelphia Flyers center Jeremy Roenick and New Orleans Saints OTHER FEATURES: Straight to Video. Why wait until June to learn how Indiana Pacers forward Jermaine O'Neal and the rest of the Pacers will finish? Thanks to Sega, we already know this spring's winners and losers. By Zev Borow. Straight from Video. Savvy scouts, DVDs and a deep bench of techies have helped eliminate some of the guesswork from the playoffs. The Magazine's Ric Bucher takes a closer look at how technology has changed the landscape of basketball and the way players prepare for their opponents. Tried and True. The Magazine's David Fleming profiles Dewayne White, the second round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Buggin' Out. The Magazine's Fleming reports as the weather gets warmer, Tampa Bay Lightning The Tampa Bay Lightning is a professional ice hockey team based in Tampa, Florida, USA. It is a member of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). center Vincent Lecavalier, his teammates and ThunderBug have turned Tampa into a hockey hotbed hotbed, low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which . Blue Crush. Royals' first baseman Mike Sweeney loves Jesus, hard-nosed baseball and playing in Kansas City. The Magazine's Jeff Bradley believes the Royals fast start could keep Sweeney in Royal blue through 2007. But is that good or bad? Also, in a sidebar piece, Rob Neyer asks whether the Royals will be able to keep both Sweeney and Carlos Beltran. Beast of the East The Beast of the East is a high school and collegiate wrestling tournament held annually in Newark, Delaware. Originally called the Delaware Winter Nationals, the name "Beast of the East" stuck when the tournament joined the ranks of the toughest high school tournaments in the . A year ago, he was an ex-NFLer trying to make a living. Today, 375-pound Bob Sapp is one of the scariest sports celebrities in Japan. The Magazine's Shaun Assael reveals how the former NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga player, turned kickboxer, has taken Japan by storm and now he wants to win over America. The Gift. Former Southern Mississippi running back Derrick Nix had a big future in football, but it was the game he loved that almost killed him. The Magazine's Luke Cyphers discovers, thanks to his older brother, he'll have a future without football. Note: A photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.050103/bb13 |
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