Sports Illustrated - USA (2022-04)

Gilmore, a senior forward at Harvard, scored the game-winning goal in a 5–4 defeat of Boston College, guiding the Crimson to the ...

Life at the BY GREG BISHOP PHOTOGRAPH BY KOHJIRO KINNO ...

HIS LEGACY AS AN ALL-TIME GREAT SECURED, AARON DONALD HAD A WHIRLWIND WEEK SAVORING A SUPER BOWL VICTORY—EVEN AS A DECISION ON H ...

A FITTING FINISH? Donald blew into the backfield and slung Joe Burrow to the turf on a fourth-and-1, clinching his first Super B ...

Donald bounced and sipped and hugged along the route, his gold chain and diamond-studded “99” pendant f lopping from neck to chi ...

Meanwhile, Rams fans scoured clips of the festivities, hunting for clues, signs, anything that qualified as insight. Those prayi ...

extension, the Rams’ move from St. Louis to L.A. and everything else, one of the greatest players in the his- tory of football h ...

between them would complicate his life. Jaeda, now 8 and his oldest, started first grade in 2018, and because of school and acti ...

He made another visit to McVay’s office the next off- season, when contract negotiations stalled once more. To his wunderkind co ...

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BY MICHAEL PINA PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN W. MCDONOUGH ...

ODE TO JA With his third- year leap, Morant has brought joy to the Grizzlies franchise, the city of Memphis and the entire NBA. ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SI.COM APRIL 2022 31 Morant looks comfortable. It’s January, about 45 minutes before tip-off at FedExForum, a ...

32 reverse-jamming a self-alley-oop off the backboard. Morant’s ascent isn’t an accident. “I don’t know if everyone in the NBA w ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SI.COM APRIL 2022 33 To brace himself for a season of downhill drives, they’d re-create the contact he’d face ...

avoid a more devastating setback. “Anybody else prob- ably would’ve tore their MCL,” he says. (About a week after the injury, Te ...

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Morant often picks up the tab at team dinners and hosts BBQs at the home he shares with his parents and sister. Family is everyt ...

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