Sports Illustrated - USA (2021-12)

DECEMBER 2021 61 The Hendersons also knew well the pitfalls of the NCA A: Diamond, China and Onyx all sustained career-altering ...

DUSTIN SPROUSE O U T THE ON ...

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64 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED | SI.COM IT’S THE UNOFFICIAL slogan of dirt track racing. But at least on this crisp October night, it’s a ...

DECEMBER 2021 65 With f ive top-10 f inishes in his last 11 races this year, the 35-year-old Sprouse entered Portsmouth having a ...

66 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED | SI.COM His 2,350-pound race car is almost like an extension of his body. Maneuvering around tracks, Spro ...

DECEMBER 2021 67 a car co-owned by...Michael Jordan. Then again, last year, a NASCAR driver made headlines when he was suspended ...

brings people together. We’re not friends. We’re family. Everybody there’s family.” Besides, it’s not always easy to guess who’s ...

DECEMBER 2021 69 equipment, fans pass around communal foods. At the West Virginia Motor Speedway, Nancy Sprouse is known for pro ...

H A GRASS ROOTS STORY ...

THE BLOODY RISE AND FORESEEABLE FA L L —F R OM S OC C E R THUG TO GUNNED-DOWN GODFATHER— OF MANCHESTER’S MR. BIG I GAN SPORTS IL ...

72 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED | SI.COM AT 7:23 P.M. on July 26, 2015, Paul Massey parked his silver BMW 5 Series at a Bargain Booze on t ...

DECEMBER 2021 73 killing of such a renowned figure could remain shrouded in mystery, one must first understand the Salford code, ...

74 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED | SI.COM This foundation of hardship, leavened with the coarse culture of textile factories and docks, and ...

DECEMBER 2021 75 so-called “top boy” in a hooligan firm. Nobody brought a crowd like Massey, who on any given night could turn o ...

76 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED | SI.COM Massey seemed to be getting arrested every other month, but he usually got off—the top boy typica ...

DECEMBER 2021 77 Massey. But as Michael Corleone observes in The Godfather Part II, “If history has taught us anything, it is th ...

78 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED | SI.COM GPS watch. He had recently checked off the 10K portion of the Great Manchester Run (in a brisk 47 ...

DECEMBER 2021 79 W HEN PAUL MASSEY was at the height of his powers—Mr. Big, the king of Salford—he spoke to the BBC about where ...

80 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED | SI.COM POINT AFTER This issue’s cover story explores the creative ways today’s hyperathletic NFL quarter ...