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Twenty five years ago, Sports Illustrated editor Mark Mulvoy and first-year writer Rick Reilly made a pitch for an unknown kid from Division III Plymouth State and in the process created a cover story that still resonates today.
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As a columnist, I'm used to writing things that offend other folks. It comes with the job. And there are times when I have responded to what other folks in the media will say and write. Again, it's just what we do.
1. Doug Glanville, New York Times op-ed columnist: The most illuminating piece of writing on Tiger Woods last month came from a man once traded for Mickey Morandini:
Since 1955, Sports Illustrated has been on the scene at the Masters. Here is a look back at 54 years of golf's greatest tournament:
1. The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, by George Plimpton, April 1, 1985
Carl Lewisupdated: Mon Jul 07 2008 03:37:00
Named in 1999 as the male "athlete of the century" by the International Association of Athletics Federations, Carl Lewis embodied the Olympic motto -- "Citius, altius, fortius" (Faster, higher, stronger).
On Tuesday, ESPN held its annual upfront presentation in New York City, a 90-minute self-love-palooza designed to razzle and dazzle a room full of media buyers and television insiders.
We're not exactly starved for sports comedies these days. Will Ferrell, in particular, seems to be working his way through every form of competition that's been devised.
A pair of horn-rimmed glasses marched up to me last week and said, "You're from Denver, right? Why didn't you people put a roof on Coors Field? This World Series is going to be freezing!"
Three weeks into fatherhood and two weeks into football season, Tom Brady has a personal problem to tackle: balancing his schedule between playing with the New England Patriots and seeing his infant son, who is home in Los Angeles with his mom, Bridget Moynahan.
Hey, dude, haven't had a date since the Fig Festival 12 years ago? Are you about as cool as a Bob Dole bumper sticker? Do girls walk by you like you're running a seminar on jock itch?
One day five years ago bubbly, gorgeous soccer goalie Korinne Shroyer came home from eighth grade, found her father's revolver in his closet and fired a bullet into her skull.
While it's hard to remember the Masters without Tiger Woods, here, from the pages of our sister publication Sports Illustrated, is a decade-old snapshot of something you'll never forget: the nail-biting quiet before Tiger's first Masters as a professional in 1997, and the aftereffect of the most dominating performance ever seen up to that time in a major championship. (Unattributed lines excerpted from stories by Rick Reilly, John Garrity and Jaime Diaz.)
SI.com: Dumb 'n' dumber updated: Wed Jan 17 2007 14:45:00
In the interest of full disclosure, I think cheerleading is absolutely stupid. Also in the interest of full disclosure, I dated a girl in college who'd been a high school cheerleader. She still thought it was super rad. I didn't, and I couldn't pretend. I even had her read Rick Reilly's fantastic October 1999 column that wonderfully elucidated the frivolity of cheerleading. She and I only dated about two more months. I guess we just couldn't see eye to G-double-O-D E-Y-E.
All Web sites are alike. Regardless of their owners, they can all do the same set of things. In that fact lies the profound crisis facing all aspects of the media industry.
The president of the University of Colorado said Wednesday that she has requested Boulder police to investigate a rape allegation by a former female football player.
Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly spent two years "crowbarring" his way into the golf bags of a dozen players, and the result is Who's Your Caddy? Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Repr...
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