My Sportsman: Oscar Pistorius

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. This year we asked a select group of people from outside the staff to offer

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My Sportswoman: Gabby Douglas

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. This year we asked a select group of people from outside the staff to offer

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My Sportswoman: Serena Williams

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. This year we asked a select group of people from outside the staff to offer

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My Sportsman: Clayton Kershaw

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. Please vote for

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My Sportsman: Tim Flannery

We had a problem when the Giants asked us to sing the national anthem a few years back. We like to do a three-part harmony, but we couldn't get a third singer.

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My Sportsman: Jeremy Lin

Jeremy Lin is my choice for Sportsman of the Year. Why? Because of the historic, thrilling, and surreal two weeks he went from being a nobody benchwarmer to a

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My Sportswoman: Serena Williams

In late May, with the 2012 season half over, Serena Williams looked to be a force in retreat. She hadn't won a Grand Slam title in two years. She had just lost

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My Sportsman: Usain Bolt

Put aside for a moment that in 2012, Usain Bolt solidified his standing as the greatest sprinter in history by winning three gold medals at the London Olympics,

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My Sportsman: Manchester City Football Club

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. This year we asked a select group of people from outside the staff to offer

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My Sportsman: LeBron James

Three years ago, I interviewed Idan Ravin -- an NBA trainer who's worked with Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony and Kobe Bryant, among others. At the time, Ravin had

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My Sportsman: Andy Murray

I always root for the guys who have not won a championship because you hate to see guys on that list -- and I would know. I call it the sh-- list. That's why I

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My Sportswoman: Kerri Walsh

No athlete does the expected like Kerri Walsh Jennings, beach volleyball's steady superstar. They said she could carry Archbishop Mitty High to the California

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My Sportsman: Bradley Wiggins

Godspeed to Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain, recently hospitalized with broken ribs after colliding with a van while out on a training ride -- a sobering,

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My Sportsmen: Manchester City FC

I was born into a Manchester City family. My granddad, who was my dad's dad, used to play for Manchester City on the B team just before the war. My dad ended up

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My Sportsman: R.A. Dickey

In sports, quantitative rarity occurs like the full moon. It's not a daily or weekly thing, but if you watch long enough you're bound to see it: Pablo Sandoval

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My Sportsman: Gabby Douglas

In order to win the Olympic gold medal in the women's all-around last summer, gymnast Gabby Douglas merely had to give up ... everything. Two years before she

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My Sportsman: Rory McIlroy

Rory McIlroy would deserve to be Sportsman of the Year strictly for his on-the-course accomplishments: four victories to ascend to number one in the World

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My Sportsman: Didier Drogba

In a perfect world, SI's Sportsman of the Year award would always go to an athlete who was both transcendent on the field and a humanitarian off it. And when I

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My Sportsman: Mike Trout

It is not at all difficult to make a quantitative argument that Mike Trout, the rookie centerfielder for the Los Angeles Angels, ought to be SI's Sportsman of

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My Sportsman: Christophe Bassons

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. Please vote for

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My Sportsman: Michael Phelps

He didn't have to come back. Michael Phelps could have made a clean and glorious exit from swimming after going 8-for-8 at the 2008 Olympics. He didn't need to

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My Sportsman: Miroslav Klose

The entire world's a stage and all the soccer players merely players. There is no sport that invites theatrics like soccer, where they strut (Cristiano Ronaldo)

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