Sports Illustrated - USA (2022-05)

STEPPING UP BIG The Sixers needed Embiid to carry them this season. He delivered like an MVP. PHOTOGRAPH BY GREG NELSON ...

mid-March win over the Lakers, Stanley Johnson, L.A.’s 6' 7", 243-pound forward, wrapped up Embiid on a layup attempt, leaving h ...

missed one of his free throws. He blamed himself for committing a turnover in the final minute. He bemoaned the team’s inability ...

handball, his father’s game. “I was in a bad place,” says Embiid. “And that’s when all the stories were coming out every single ...

f lipped Simmons to Brooklyn in a package for All-Star guard James Harden. Embiid has not spoken to Simmons. Not since the trade ...

G We i g h t i e r AS THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S THE PLAYERS ARE COMING THE EVOLVING STATE OF ...

SOCCER LEAGUE ENTERS ITS 10TH YEAR, FAR SURPASSING ITS PREDECESSORS, Washington BY EMMA BACCELLIERI TIM NWACHUKWU/GETTY IMAGES T ...

training camps, their union ratified its first collective bargaining agreement, which ushered in important changes such as the i ...

first looking back. To an outsider, it may have felt as if the NWSL’s turmoil came out of nowhere in 2021: The league had been o ...

to speak out and take action. So did the sheer volume of stories—a devastating statement on the coaching that had previously bee ...

abuse came to light last year had been trailed by com- plaints from one team to another, or from youth clubs up to the pros. “So ...

At the base of Mount Etna, in a struggling Sicilian neighborhood racked by crime and poverty, A SMALL RUGBY OUTFIT IS OFFERING H ...

THE LAND IS OURS, AND NOBODY CAN TOUCH IT ...

away from criminal activity. And that outlet, it seems, has not gone over particularly well with Sicily’s feared Maf ia, the Cos ...

in night shifts to defend the San Teodoro from mobsters. Briganti’s biggest match would therefore take place in exile, 10 miles ...

pool. In the end, Librino “was not a happy place,” says Paolo Romania, an artist and early resident. Instead, the mob moved in. ...

soccer has a long and sordid history with the Mafia. Members of Naples’s Camorra crime syndicate plied Diego Maradona with drugs ...

They would be squatters. The club built a kitchen, a library and a café. Membership fees were instituted, but they were (and rem ...

team. “Our motto was that this would be more beautiful than before. They set fire to our home? We must react.” Today the Giusepp ...

80 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED | SI.COM POINT AFTER Formula One is having a moment—and if you’re an American fan hooked on Formula One: D ...