My Sportsman: Bill Russell, Kevin Garnett

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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SI Latino's pick: MLS MVP Schelotto

The dinner guests at the Boca Juniors steakhouse in Queens, N.Y., look menacingly at Walter Coni, the owner of the restaurant that honors Argentina's most

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My Sportsman: Rafael Nadal

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Candace Parker

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Nicklas Lidstrom

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Kurt Warner

I realize it's presumptuous, because the sport I cover is football, and I've never met Kevin Garnett or Michael Phelps or any of the other great Olympians from

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My Sportsman: Josh Hamilton

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Padraig Harrington

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Stephen Curry

Here's what I remember most about watching Stephen Curry play basketball in the NCAA tournament. The smiles. No, not his smiles. I remember the way everyone

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My Sportsman: Anderson Silva

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Jimmie Johnson

Let's say you're a fledgling owner in the Sprint Cup Series and you're searching for a driver around whom to build your race team. What characteristics should

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My Sportsman: Brian McBride

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Barack Obama

Barack Obama was 10 years old when he first fell in love with basketball. His grandfather had taken him to a game at the University of Hawaii, which had climbed

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My Sportsman: Joey Cheek

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Joe Maddon

Joe Maddon isn't your typical monosyllabic manager who considers the double-switch to be deep thought. Joe the Manager is a man of letters and culture who uses

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My Sportsman: Hope Solo

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: CC Sabathia

It was a modern marriage, born of Cleveland's desire to salvage something out of its last few months in control of CC Sabathia, Milwaukee's need of a pitching

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My Sportsman: Abhinav Bindra

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Fresno State

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Nnamdi Asomugha

The session was supposed to last less than an hour. Show up, talk to the kids, move on. That's what standout Raiders cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha expected on a

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My Sportsman: Bernard Hopkins

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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