22 Poll Vaulting There's an upsetting trend in college basketball that has been disastrous for
No. l's
by Alexander Wolff
28 Anatomy of a Plot
Br their accounts, Nancy Kerran's forar assailants were at once goons and buffoonss
by E.M. Swift
42 Aged to a Tee
For tv-six-year-old Johnny Miller made broadcast news at Pebble Beach
by Rick Reilly
44 The Killing Ground
Sarjevo once held the sweetest of Olympic Games. Non, it stages bloodbaths
William Oscar Johnson
54 Off the Deep End
Seduced by turquoise waters, America has fallen in lore with the swimming pool
by Bruce Newman
62 The Black-Line Blues
With a million laps behind him, the author has a shot at circunrnawigatinq the
globe
by Gilbert Begin
66 Everybody into the Pool
SI's 30th swimsuit spectacular gets f csh—wates; that is—and goes
where the boys are.
by Jule Campbell
120 Supermodel Confidential Angie Everhart is reallv a redhead and has stamina to burn. Just ask the author
by Kelly Whiteside
136 The Survival Game
In paint ball or baseball, San Dieqo pitcher Andy Belies is a wanted man
by Kelly Whiteside
142 A Man of Vision
The X-ray eyes of Dallas's Emmitt Smith have led ban to double-MVP honors
by Leigh Montville
152 Unlucky Man
An SI Classic tells the tale of Sonny Liston, on whom firtune never smiled
by William Nack
168 A Life in the Shadows
Since 1947, basketball coach Dick Baldwin has shunned the big time and lost little
by Alexander Wolff DEPARTMENTS
8 Letters
12 Faces in the Crowd
18 Scorecard
130 Sports People
175 Inside College Football
178 Inside the NBA
180 Point After
EDITORIAL NOTE
PERHAPS IT'S because the SI swimsuit issue turns 30 this year (hey, when you look
this good, why lie about your age?) and is thus more health conscious. Or maybe
it's because ingredients such as Kathy Ireland, Elle MacPherson and Rachel Hunter
have been proved to accelerate heart rates in certain readers. Or, who knows,
maybe it's just that the models were sick and tired of all the sand that got in
their suits. Whatever the reason, here is the good news about this year's swimsuit
issue: no salt added.
Having hit more beaches than the Marines in her three decades of overseeing the
issue, senior editor Jule Campbell opted to abandon the traditional saltwater
photo shoots this year. Instead, she and her crew went exclusively poolside.
"Shooting pools," says Campbell. "At first I thought, What a silly
idea! You don't see swimsuits, you just see heads and shoulders above the waterline.
Then the notion began to excite me."
As it did the models. Kathy Ireland was so enthused about working only eight miles
from her Southern California home for one shoot that she made the commute on her
bicycle—at 5 a.m.
Reporter Julie Stern, Campbell's assistant, recalls that another shoot, scheduled
for a private home in Malibu, was canceled at the last moment. Faced with the
loss of a day of work, Campbell wondered what to do. Then Rachel, who lives nearby,
piped up: "Well, I have a pool at my house, but I'm not sure if it's any
good." It is; it's on the cover.
As a result the 30th-anniversary swimsuit issue promises no salt, but plenty of
chlorine. What it lacks in NaC1 it makes up for in Cl, many times over—which
is not to say that you can see Elle too many times.
We got rid of the salt, but for the first time we did add MSG (Macho Sexy Guys).
The third week of December found Alex Rousseau (above, with Stacey Williams) and
four of his mates from the U.S. water polo team—Troy Barnhart, Chris Duplanty,
Kirk Everist and Rick McNair—in San Diego, helplessly trapped inside what
might have seemed like a beer commercial.
"That's a good analogy for how we felt," says Alex, 26, who last August,
along with his teammates, had accepted Campbell's offer to be pioneers of sorts:
the first male swimsuit models in SI. "Basically, we hung out in our Speedos
for four days with some of the most beautiful women in the world. It wasn't hard
to get used to."
Rousseau, himself a leggy 6' 3", admits that at first "I was very self-conscious
about how I looked in a suit next to Elle—I feel I can call her Elle by
now. But the models were constantly assuring us that we looked great." How
did they do that? "They whistled at us."
Though he realizes that he cannot expect such perks as having Elle whistle at
him at every shoot, Alex says that, should the opportunity arise, he would love
to work again as a model. And Campbell says of Alex et al., "They were the
nicest guys in the world. Who knows, perhaps next year we'll take them to the
beach with us."
Back to the salt mines.
