Sports Illustrated - USA (2021-12-15)

In the five decades since she took a stand against the pay disparity between men and women in tennis— and won—the trailblazer an ...

IN SIDE BILLIE JE AN KING’S medicine cabinet hangs an index card. She affixed it there with Scotch tape so that she sees it ever ...

2 0 2 1 43 honor with UCLA men’s basketball coach John Wooden— she noted that many people consider her radical “but 10 years fro ...

to SI’s 2019 Sportsperson honoree, World Cup champion Megan Rapinoe, the fourth stand-alone woman winner and an out gay athlete. ...

2 0 2 1 45 teammates, who were about to sign another lowball con- tract. But she told them what King had said: that they needed ...

CHANGED OVER King once defied the American tennis establishment, but in 2021 she presented the U.S. Open trophy to champion Emma ...

2 O 2 1 47 ’08 the tournament has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 37,000 metric tons. (In ’19, the Green Sports Alliance rec ...

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52 JANUARY 11 MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. Najee Harris’s 26-yard TD reception put Alabama ahead for good as the Crimson Tide beat Ohio S ...

2 O 2 1 53 SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR 2021 AUGUST 7 TOKYO The United States beat Japan, 90–75, to win a seventh straight Olympic g ...

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2 O 2 1 JULY 27 TOKYO Before setting an Olympic record and winning gold in the final, Hungary’s Kristóf Milák demolished the fie ...

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2 O 2 1 57 SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR 2021 AUGUST 12 DYERSVILLE, IOWA The White Sox navigated a corn maze to get to the inaugural ...

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2 O 2 1 JULY 1 EAST HARTFORD, CONN. Neither the weather nor Mexico’s defense could stop Megan Rapinoe and the U.S., which romped ...

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