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GUIDE TO THE NFL PLAY-OFFS The NFL's real season begins next week with four first-round play-off games. TIME.com's Paul Katcher previews the games, tells you who could have a big performance and attempts to answer that hearty winter football perennial: "So, who do you like this year?" At time.com/nflplayoffs2002...
Heaven knows why they call it a consolation goal, because it's usually anything but. When Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine's star striker, scored in the dying moments of the second leg of his country's World Cup play-off against Germany on Nov. 14, he knew the goal would serve no purpose: the Germans were already leading by four. As the final whistle sounded in Dortmund's Westfalenstadion, the Ukrainians slumped to the turf. Shevchenko was shattered. "The door of the World Cup is closed to me," he said later. Football fans around the world mourned with Shevchenko, for they...
SORCERY A pregame onfield ritual featuring Yoruba priestess Ava Kay Jones and a boa, below, is being credited with helping lift a curse on the New Orleans Saints, who won their first play-off game in 34 years...
...phenom" does not do Daunte Culpepper justice. The sophomore signal caller has made the most difficult position in the game look easy, guiding the Vikings to an 11-2 record and a play-off berth before any other team in the league...
...scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...