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The powers that be at Sports Illustrated like to put out regional covers for certain special issues, the NCAA Tournament preview being one such example. It's a nice thing to do because it allows several different college players to appear on the cover of sport's most iconic magazine who might not normally receive such recognition. Of course some of those niceties go out the window when you botch the spelling of the coverboy's first name. Dan Steinberg, the cheeseboy/poet/grammarian at DC Sports Bog, took note of the typo and offered up some advice to magazine editors everywhere.
A handy reminder to national magazine copy editors: "U before A, just about every day, except after P, which works for Gasol, or in 'FAU,' which will probably brawl."
Continue after the jump for the cover in question...
Yep, that's it down at the bottom.
Kevin Love can sense that something is amiss.
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If you shoot me, you're liable to lose a lot of those humanitarian awards.
@J-No: Worked for the Ayatollah.
In the same vein, will someone please teach Knight how to pronounce Washington correctly?
Is it me, or does this have a very Sgt. Pepper album cover vibe, what with the shifty eye glances and the creepy mascot with the shades?
Blame Summers' parents. That's what happens when they make up names.
I was told there would be no spelling.
Scott Templeton is all over this story
@Crookednose: Read Freakonomics, much? I do believe, in this case, at least, that Juan is a name typical to Latino households, & in its Americanized form features a prefixal Da for intensification.
... Or would you prefer everybody to be named Breleigh (N.B.: Brett Favre named his second daughter this, & as a 'Sconsinite I am risking ostracizing by calling hims out) & Conor?
The most egregious error? Slipping that picture of an LSU player in the tournament preview collage.
@josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...: No, I never read Freakonomics. People can be named whatever they want. But if you decide to throw together some piecemeal concoction, well, expect people to screw it up on occasion. If his name were simply Juan, I doubt SI would have spelled it Jaun Summers.
@BreakfastBourbon: [shakes fist]
[hangs head in shame]
How hard is it to spell Martin Lawrence? I mean... JEEZUS
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