March 3, 2003		Click for Previous Issues
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PRO BASKETBALL Roll of a Lifetime Kobe Bryant is pouring in points by the score and has led the Lakers back into contention By Chris Ballard The Gifted Ones Kobe wasn't the first; LeBron won't be the last. Let's just enjoy the next wave of prodigies: Freddy, José and Darko COLLEGE BASKETBALL Madness to the Method? A top-secret computer formula,the RPI, can determine whethera team gets an NCAA berth By Alexander Wolff		BASEBALL Safe at Home Why would Lou Piniella leave a winner in Seattle to manage the worst team in baseball? By Michael Bamberger CAVING Going Deep How a curmudgeonly caver discovered a subterranean wonder and saved it from ruin By Michael Ray Taylor