Sports Illustrated

Gary Smith's moment of truth Gary Smith's moment of truth

The four-time National Magazine Award winner talks about capturing the story of sport's most crucial time, just before the game starts.
  • The cover curse

    Bar bet: Who's been on the front of S.I. more times, Ernie Grunfeld or Reggie Miller?
  • Itsy bitsy teenie weenie

    Slate's fun retrospective of the bikini takes you from ancient Greece to so-called "bathing machines" to Raquel Welch.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    With the NCAA title on the line, Florida makes UCLA look bad, and that's good.
  • Skinny-dipping

    Sports Illustrated's models may look good in their suits, but can they swim out of the voyeur's chamber?
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    S.I. Sportsman of the Year: Brett Favre. No, really. It's Brett Favre.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    So the Patriots will rout the Eagles. You sure about that? Plus: An ally in sending the Super Bowl to the snow. And: Thoughts on the inactive Lennox Lewis and Mike Williams.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    BCS Whack-a-Mole: A system so grand it has to be changed every year to solve the problems that pop up. Plus: The Red Sox are so great they've altered the calendar.
  • Lance and Serena: The sequel

    When we disparaged the idea that Lance Armstrong could be named Athlete of the Year, many of you got very, very upset. Well, get over it.
  • Sports Person of the Year: Serena Williams

    Lance Armstrong is racking up awards like this, which is preposterous. Salon sets the record straight.
  • Overrated, underrated

    Overrated: Johnny Unitas, the 1996-2001 Yankees and John McEnroe. Underrated: Bart Starr, the 1996-2001 Yankees and Steffi Graf.
  • Steroids: The cancer that's growing inside baseball

    Until the national pastime solves its drug problem, the game's integrity will be threatened.
  • If Jeff Kent were black

    The San Francisco Giants' All-Star second baseman got off easy for blasting Barry Bonds to Sports Illustrated, because the media likes him and hates Bonds. Could race (say it isn't so!) have anything to do with it?
  • Sports magazines start to sweat

    Why hot Web sites and flat ad revenue portend more Anna Kournikova covers for Sports Illustrated.
  • The media minuet

    Spring is here. And so is the meeting of media moguls, mavens -- and the National Magazine Awards.
  • Why Bob Knight should bag it

    Indiana University's basketball coach is an angry, vulgar, violent creep, but that's not the reason he should resign.
  • Letters to the editor

    Reactions to Diallo verdict Plus: Hard work pays off for post-docs; does AARP stand for Association for the Advancement of Rich People?
  • The swimsuit issue is here!

    Wimpy, artsy, dishonest porn delivered to your door -- now in 3D!
  • Marlboro Man lives

    Big Tobacco money is being spent differently than before, but it's still targeting our youth.
  • Bigger, fatter, richer

    Inside the Time Warner media empire there was a whole lot of smiling going on Monday.
  • Keith Richards: Like a thief in the night?

    Evil Glimmer Twin makes off with fan's guitar; health poll: better to resemble Tina Turner than Calista Flockhart -- Doh! Plus: Joe Frazier's daughter to Muhammad Ali's daughter: Boom! boom! Out go the lights.
  • If you film it, they will come

    If you film it, they will come: A passionate sports fan begins his cross-country pilgrimage with a visit to Iowa's Field of Dreams. Excerpted from "Road Swing," by Steve Rushin.
  • ESPN: The Magazine kicks sand in SI: The Swimsuit Issue's face

    ESPN's glammy print startup courts young sports fans who don't want their fathers' breasts.
  • gangsta athletes, anxious whites

    THE LATRELL SPREWELL CASE MAY SIGNAL THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICA'S LAST RACIAL UTOPIA -- SPORTS.
  • Media Circus:

    The Latrell Sprewell case may signal the collapse of America's last racial utopia -- sports.
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