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Simone Biles

Simone Biles Is SI’s 2024 Sportsperson of the Year

The most decorated gymnast of all time is more than her staggering medal count.

A Penny's True Value

I've covered Brett Favre throughout his pro career, and when people ask, "What's Favre really like?" I might tell a story about his dead-on imitation of Billy

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2007 Sportsman of the Year

The epicenter of Green Bay's game-day good cheer is adjacent to Lambeau, just across Holmgren Way, a block over from Lombardi Avenue: Brett Favre's Steakhouse,

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My Sportsman: Roger Federer

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

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The Anti-Sportsman

Barry BondsWhy he made it: Surly slugger blighted greatest record in pro sports; indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice.Anti-Sportsman rating (out of

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My Sportsman: Everson Walls

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: The Colorado Rockies

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Eunice Shriver

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Michael Phelps

It takes a truly remarkable swimmer to leave an audience staring in rapt awe at a race in the pool, with its barely distinguishable limbs and lanes as a guide

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My Sportsman: Kay Yow

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Jonathan Vaughters

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: David Ortiz

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Angel Cabrera

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Devin Hester

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Skip Prosser

The thing about Skip Prosser isn't that his death was untimely, his work unfinished, but that much about his style was understated and unspoken until he

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My Sportsman: Alberto Salazar

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Allyson Felix

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Jim Harbaugh

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Jenny Hansen

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Joe Torre

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Derek Fisher

On the night of May 9, 2007, Utah Jazz guard Derek Fisher walked onto the court at EnergySolutions arena in Salt Lake City. It was late in the third quarter of

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Eventually, I found my frankfurter. And now, having witnessed Chestnut ingest exactly 118 of them over the following two Independence Days, I have also found my

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My Sportsman: David Beckham

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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My Sportsman: Hank Aaron

The list of SI's Sportsmen of the Year is very nearly a complete roll call of the transcendent athletes of the last half century. Just about all the legends are

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My Sportsman: Evander Holyfield

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays,

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