Michael Jordan leaps the great divide / John Edgar Wideman -- Rabbit, run / John Updike -- The great Santini / Pat Conroy -- Haymon's crowd / Robert Greenfield -- Heaven is a playground / Rick Telander -- White men can't jump / Ron Shelton -- The city game. The fallen idol : the Harlem tragedy of Earl Manigault / Pete Axthelm -- A king felled by drugs revisits court he ruled / Ian O'Connor -- American pastime / David O. Weber -- The shooter / Thomas A. Boswell -- The ultimatium of Hattie Tatum / Dick Wimmer -- Goodbye, Columbus / Philip Roth -- A season of the brink : a year with Bobby Knight as the Indiana Hoosiers / John Feinstein -- The killer instinct. Winning and losing / Bob Cousy with John Devaney -- The breaks of the game / David Halberstam -- Good-by to Jerry West / Dave Anderson -- Coliseum hour / John McPhee -- Forty-eight minutes / Bob Ryan and Terry Pluto -- Wait till next year. Revolution comes to Madison Square / William Goldman with Mike Lupica -- Life on the run / Bill Bradley -- Lady magic / Nancy Lieberman-Cline with Debby Jennings -- The franchise. The Pistons / Cameron Stauth -- Unforgettable / Jack McCallum -- To hoops on its 100th / Ira Berkow.