This piece originally appeared in the March 1982 issue of Inside Sports. It is reprinted here with the author's…

One of Gary Smith's finest stories:

I can pinpoint the moment I realized I was never going to be Gary Smith. This was back in the spring of 2005, shortly…

From SI back in April of 1988, here's Gary Smith: "Ali and His Entourage":

From time to time, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge…

In 1996, Sports Illustrated named a 20-year-old Tiger Woods its Sportsman of the Year, and Gary Smith's accompanying…

Sports Illustrated's Gary Smith has won the National Magazine Award four times, which is almost as impressive as the…

Though we grew up thinking he was the the best sportswriter on the planet — and one of our favorite journalists…