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Articles in March 17, 2006, issue of Sporting News, The

• Your turn
• The big 1-2-0
  by Bob Hille
• Scouting the field: some teams are locks, but others are wrestling with pre-Selection Sunday anxiety. Our projected field of 65 will restore order and allow everyone to breathe a little easier
  by Kyle Veltrop
• Mears charges ahead
  by Roger Kuznia
• N.L. report
• Polling place
• 13 stories tall: we like to think Al Spink's baseball team was the second-best thing he founded in the 1880s, but that team still is one of our 13 stories of the decades—one for each decade we have existed
  by Steve Gietschier
• N.C. State has a pack mentality
  by Kyle Veltrop
• Burton runs Carolina fans into the fence
  by Matt Crossman
• Going right at 'em: Curt Schilling, who had a front-row seat for last year's steroids spectacle in D.C., neither wags a finger nor wilts when the tough questions start flying
  by Ken Rosenthal
• Blog on
• The 120 coolest numbers in sports: equal parts trivia, history and, yeah, weirdness, too, these are the numbers we relish because they survive and thrive in our digital sports era
  by Bob Hille
• Big 12: three fresh faces have the Jayhawks rocking
  by Corrie Anderson
• Not all short backs are in over their heads
  by Dan Pompei
• BCS formula needs another element
  by Matt Hayes
• RadioStar: real talk from a fan on Sporting News
  by Sal
• Polling place
• Big East: livin' on a 3-point prayer
  by Kara Yorio
• Inside the AFC
• Squeeze play
  by George Winkler
• To know list: 7 things to make you an instant expert this week
• Nice pants
• Forecasting the next 120? Do the math
• Big Ten: Buckeyes arrive early, hope to stay late
  by Todd Schulz
• Inside the NFC
• '06 prospects: green light or just green?
  by Rob Hurtt
• News you can't use
• Sports talk with admiral Jeff Fowler: a breath of fresh air from a guy who spent four years underwater
  by Matt Crossman
• Thank you, Mr. Seat-Back Chair Guy!
• Pac-10: UCLA hopes the tourney brings healthy returns
  by Bruce Pascoe
• Focus: draft buzz
• Tale of the tape
  by Chris Bahr
• On deck: the week ahead in sports
  by Kyle Veltrop
• Branching out on campus
  by Daniel Novinson
• Zag time: armed with a transcendent player in Adam Morrison, Gonzaga is primed to end its run of early exits from the NCAA Tournament
  by Mike DeCourcy
• SEC: Lofton does Volunteers' work from 3-point range
  by Kyle Veltrop
• Colangelo made a great escape
  by Dave D'Alessandro
• The Monarch of the Monarchs
  by Dave Kindred
• Bob Hille's starting 5
• Upon further review …
• Anything goes: the talent level in college basketball is diminished, but a watered-down NCAA Tournament field has one side effect that is predictably positive: unpredictability
  by Mike DeCourcy
• Projecting the rest of the field
  by Corrie Anderson
• Out with the old and in with a guy who may be better—or not
  by Stan McNeal
• Coming at you: in the March 24 issue
• Horn of plenty: you can't win it all without a game-changing safety—and the only one in this year's draft is Texas' Michael Huff
  by Phil Barber
• What Brown can do for the Illini: unlike last season, when three talented guards drove Illinois to the Final Four, the responsibility of carrying the Illini deep into another March rests squarely on Dee Brown's shoulders
  by Sean Deveney
• Extreme makeover, starring Kurt Busch
  by Lee Spencer
• Catchers need to squat less, sit more
  by Ken Rosenthal
• Cramping up during the big game: a foolproof way to fool that fool you call your boss and spend a day in utter madness
  by Tricia Garner
• True calling: a believer in small ball from an early age, Juan Pierre has brought his vocation to Chicago as the Cubs' leadoff hitter
  by Sean Deveney
• Instant expert: your bracket-building guide to Selection Sunday
  by Mike DeCourcy
• A look at the intermediate future
  by Matt Crossman
• A.L. report