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more about #sportsillustrated more comments → Kid Canada: "This verifies my idea that he is on the level of Ruth and Gehrig," [Sports Illustrated Group editor Terry]McDonell said. "He's the greatest shortstop... more » Phintastic: On Sept. 11 he passed Lou Gehrig's franchise mark for base hits Until Jeter gets a disease, other than an STD, named after him...it's Gehrig FTW. more » Chris Hanson's Axe: No one should win anything in baseball unless they were first or second in the American League in some acronym. I am outraged! more » Clarence Rosario: "dignity and elegance" Doesn't Derek know that stepping out of the shower to piss wastes water? more » Stev D: So I spent the last month wearing khaki and killing elephants for nothing? Thanks for nothing, collection of Hemingway short stories I found in some o... more » Bobby Big Wheel: Much like Obama and the Nobel, Jeter won the award despite his WAR. more » rombuu: He's not even the most sportsman-y person on the Yankees... more » David Hume: Sportsman of the Year, because of his "dignity and elegance." By this logic, we can expect Ian McKellen to win a Golden Globe for breaking Ron Howard... more » formerly Chief Wahoo: Elegance? Does he remove his cleats before tagging the base? more » dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: In other news, Jimmy Rollins is your Miss Cleo Psychic of the Year. Courtesy of Bloomberg Speechwriting, Inc. more » ArkansasFred: Now that's the look of a guy who can effectively boil the hair and meat from an encyclopedia salesman's severed head. more » UpstateUnderdog: that's like the "world's greatest boss" mug of sports awards. more » Gourmet Spud: This is clearly one of those "Lifetime Achievement" awards, like when they gave Scorsese the Oscar for The Departed or freed Nelson Mandela. more » ClintonPortishead: Surely the most prestigious award a Yankee has won since Cory Lidle's Nobel Prize in Physics for his convincing dissertation on gravity. more » MattinglysSideburns: The last time a sports figure was described as having "dignity and elegance", Dee Mirich's descent into utter madness was just in its infancy. more » -
#mlb
Derek Jeter Scoffs At Your Puny MVP Award
The Yankee Coxswain is your Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, because of his "dignity and elegance." Also? He's an excellent tipper and rarely kills hobos to wear their flesh. [SI] -
#literature
Rushin Literature
Steve Rushin, the punster who used to write awesome features and dreadful columns for Sports Illustrated, has a novel dropping next year. It's about "a friendly and unassuming lover of clever wordplay and television sports." Steve's really stretching himself. [Amazon] -
#economicmeltdowns
Sports Will Make Detroit Happy Again, Sportswriters Continue To Claim
Oh, look. A sportswriter has parachuted into Detroit and found a hard-luck city with a shrinking tax base in the maw of a recession whose spirits nonetheless brighten because Brandon Inge just ran out a grounder to short. Yay! More » -
#watercoolerfodder
This Man Will Not Defecate For Less Than Your Annual Salary
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More » -
#sportsillustrated
Joe Posnanski Just Gave You A Reason To Renew Your Sports Illustrated Subscription
Posnanski, who in the time it takes you to read this will have written two features and a post about Yuniesky Betancourt, is SI's newest senior writer: "This is Broadway. This is Paris under a setting sun." [Joeposnanski.com, TBL, Shanoff] -
#fromthesivault
Omar Minaya: Mix Master No More
It was just two years ago that Omar Minaya was a Sports Illustrated cover boy and subject of a fawning profile in which he was referred to simply as O. As in: Oh my, how things have changed. More » -
#fromthesivault
How Leagues Learned To Stop Loving And Worry About Steroids
The peril of steroids, like the Internet, wasn't apparent 40 years ago when Sports Illustrated published a prescient story about PEDs. In retrospect now, with steroids as dangerous as the Internet is real, professional sports appear more oblivious than ever. More » -
#sportsillustrated
Steve McNair's Death Doesn't Make SI Cover
The May 3, 2004 Pat Tillman cover was the last time Sports Illustrated put a professional athlete's death on the next week's cover. This week's has a cover line about Wimbledon, but no hint of S.L. Price's elegant McNair tribute. -
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#alexisarguello
Alexis Arguello's Death, Prefigured
Alexis Arguello, the Nicaraguan boxing legend who was found dead early Wednesday of a gunshot wound to the chest, led a demon-haunted life that he nearly ended by his own hand 25 years ago. From a 1985 Sports Illustrated story: More » -
#mediameltdowns
Tom Verducci Has Found His Latest Anti-Drug Mascot: Joe Mauer
Oh, lookie. Here's Tom Verducci, once again on the cover of Sports Illustrated, once again turning real live baseball players into toy soldiers whom he can draft into his own personal war on steroids. More » -
#mediameltdowns
Note To Sportswriters: Wide Receivers Aren't Actually Divas
Don Banks, the Sports Illustrated writer last seen comparing Matt Millen to Dick Nixon in a good way, wonders today why so many wide receivers act like divas. Not to pick on Banks again, but ... More » -
#rickreilly
Rick Reilly Before He Was Rick Reilly®
Once upon a time, before he was a walking Father's Day card, before his writing became a neverending telethon for the blind and the deaf, the palsied and the pinkieless, the one-armed and the no-legged, Rick Reilly was really good.
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#journalism
The Last, Best Sports Staff
A long, long time ago, when writers puffed on cigars in the press box and sipped scotches with their sources, the best sports journalism lived in print. And nobody did it better than The Boston Globe. More » -
#cartography
Tracking Bryce Harper's Moonshot
Sports Illustrated claims that Chosen Person Bryce Harper, as a 15-year-old, hit a 570-foot home run in Las Vegas, an anecdote that is equal parts Sidd Finch, Paul Bunyan and Jesus. And I'll be damned: It just might be true. More » -
#mediameltdowns
A Portrait Of The Columnist As A Young Virgin
Long before John Rocker offered him his thoughts on New York City transit, SI.com columnist Jeff Pearlman was a rosy-cheeked collegian who was more than happy to share his sexual habits with the world. More » -
#mediameltdowns
Sports Illustrated's Many, Many Chosen Ones
Here's the cover of the new Sports Illustrated, in which 16-year-old Bryce Harper is declared the "Chosen One." Sound familiar? It should.
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#mediameltdowns
Sports Illustrated South Africa Distances Itself From Hitlery Ad Campaign
Remember that rather gauche Sports Illustrated South Africa fake-cover ad campaign? The one with Der Führer getting the ol' SI jinx dropped on his head? Well, the magazine now claims it didn't like the ads, either. More » -
#mediameltdowns
Sports Illustrated South Africa's Quirky New Ad Campaign: Black Panthers, Hitler
It can't be easy marketing an American-style sports magazine in a country only 15 years removed from apartheid, which is probably why Sports Illustrated South Africa feels the need to give the hard sell now. By which I mean, Hitler. More » -
#mlb
The Evil Umpire: Who Once Called Pitches For Randy Johnson?
Tom Verducci wrote up Randy Johnson in last week's Sports Illustrated and included this odd — and oddly unnoticed — anecdote: More » -
#drz
In Praise Of Dr. Z
In an otherwise touching account of Monday's benefit for the stricken Dr. Z, Peter King shares this depressing detail: "It's been almost six months since he's spoken, and he can't write, and he can't read."
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