2003
DECEMBER
December 23, 2003
Women's Goals
Young women have established themselves on the playing fields of America, but the professional women's soccer league was forced to fold earlier this year. Kwame Holman reports that female athletes and their promoters are taking their best shot to establish financially viable women's athletic leagues.

NOVEMBER
November 14, 2003
Drugs and Sports
In recent random tests of almost 1,200 Major League Baseball players, between 5 and 7 percent of them tested positive for the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. Jeffrey Brown gets perspective from Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer Tom Verducci.

OCTOBER
October 9, 2003
Playing By the Numbers
With Major League Baseball's two historically "cursed" teams in play for their leagues' championships, Paul Solman explores the interplay of the national pastime and probability. He reports on how baseball players and managers look to percentages to help guide their strategy.

AUGUST
August 25, 2003
Bowing Out
Tennis champion Pete Sampras officially retired at the beginning of the U.S. Open. Terence Smith looks at Sampras' career with sportswriter John Feinstein.

August 4, 2003
Baseball Blues
Jeffrey Kaye looks at the changing face of major league baseball.

JULY
July 28, 2003
Tour de Force
Lance Armstrong achieved his fifth straight victory at the Tour de France Sunday. Spencer Michels reports.

MAY
May 23, 2003
Fairway Frenzy
Annika Sorenstam Thursday became the first woman to play in a Professional Golf Association tour event in 58 years. Margaret Warner talks about Sorenstam and her performance thus far with Sally Jenkins, a sports columnist for The Washington Post.

FEBRUARY
February 20, 2003
A Masters' Challenge
Terence Smith reports on a golf story that is reverberating beyond the fairway.