Sports Illustrated - USA (2020-04)

WATCH WNBA DRAFT APRI L 2020 21 WHY WE SWIM by Bonnie Tsui, out April 14 Welcome the warmer temperatures by diving into this boo ...

THEY SAID IT SCORECARD to where women’s basketball is heading and being on a team that’s helping it grow. Were there other reaso ...

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24 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FEAR THE BEARD THE SURPRISING KEY TO GAME-CHANGING PERFORMANCES COULD BE... FACIAL HAIR? STEPH CURRY 2017 ...

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THE FORMER HOOPS PHENOM SAYS HIS MENTAL HEALTH ACTIVISM GOT HIM BLACKBALLED FROM THE NBA. NOW HE’S GOING INSIDE THE OCTAGON T SC ...

that Rockets general manager Daryl Morey wrote to White leaked to the public. It read in part: “We have bent over backwards to a ...

BY THEN, White had switched his sports loyalties. He says that as a kid he was captivated by MMA, but “cultural forces” prevente ...

SCORECARD is aware of the former NBA player and is intrigued, but adds that he hasn’t scouted White. “We’ll see what happens whe ...

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FACES IN THE CROWD 32 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED PAT PECORA Wrestling Turtle Creek , Pa. Pecora, 66, earned his 617th career victory in ...

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AT FIRST THE SPREAD OF^ THE^ CORONAVIRUS^ THREATENED^ TO^ KEEP^ IN THE^ CANCELLATION^ OF^ MARCH^ MADNESS^ AND^ OTHER^ NHL^ SEASO ...

SPECTATORS AWAY FROM^ BIG^ EVENTS.^ SUDDENLY,^ IT^ RESULTED^ NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS;^ THE^ SUSPENSION^ OF^ THE^ NBA,^ MLS^ AND^ THE ...

36 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED IT’S STILL EARLY DAYS IN THIS CRISIS. AND IN SPORTS, AS IN LIFE AT LARGE, THE CORONAVIRUS IS STILL OUTPACI ...

APRIL 2020 37 throws a perfect-strike first pitch—in the World Series at Yankee Stadium after 9/11. Or Drew Brees’s piloting the ...

38 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED But even with athletes sidelined and leagues suspended until further notice, sports can play a critical ro ...

APRIL 2020 39 series that cleared the sports calendar. Across town on that mid-March day, another basketball coach, one of sligh ...

40 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED ¬MARK DOESN’T entirely remember the moment his world fell apart. Shortly before tip-off on March 11 at th ...