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Phil Taylor

Phil Taylor

Joined: Dec 11, 2013

Senior writer, Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated senior writer Phil Taylor has covered a variety of sports in his more than two decades with the magazine, including pro and college basketball as well as college football. He has written The Hot Button column for SI.com and frequently writes the magazine's Point After column, for which he won a National Headliner Award in 2012. During his years as the magazine's lead NBA writer, Taylor profiled many of the league's stars. Among his most memorable stories were a piece on Michael Jordan's return from baseball to the NBA and an in-depth profile of reclusive Utah Jazz point guard John Stockton. Some of the historic sports events he has covered include the earthquake-struck 1989 World Series at Candlestick Park, Chris Webber's infamous timeout in the 1993 NCAA tournament title game and Jordan's epic "flu-game" in the 1997 NBA Finals. Prior to joining SI, Taylor began his career at the Miami Herald, where he won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for feature writing. He has also written for the San Jose Mercury News and the now-defunct sports daily, The National. Born in Flushing, N.Y. and raised on Long Island, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in 1982 and a Masters in communications from Stanford University in 1983. Taylor and his wife, who have three children, live in northern California.

World Series title in sight for Royals after another trademark rally
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The eighth-inning comeback that devastated the New York Mets, that left them wondering how they could be bleeding so badly from the Royals’ little cuts, was nothing new for Kansas City. Late-inning rallies are their specialty.

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'It's a Series now': Energized Mets have momentum as barbs fly
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The Mets' win in Game 3 of the World Series gave them a great chance at pushing the Fall Classic back to Kansas City, and it also included an incident that opened up a war of words with the Royals.

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