Sports Illustrated - USA (2022-06)

59 JUNE 2022 the Sky and her sixth in the WNBA; it seemed obvious to him that some gear should be avail- able with her name on i ...

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61 JUNE 2022 TRANSGENDER ATHLETES One big question looms over Title IX as the legislation enters its second half century: How do ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 62 MAINSTREAM ACCEPTANCE A few years ago, Portland chef Jenny Nguyen and her friends went to a sports bar for ...

63 JUNE 2022 Imagine if there was a bar—just one, somewhere, anywhere—with women’s games as the default rather than the special ...

NEARLY 36, RAFAEL NADAL HAS BECOME THE ELDER STATESMAN TENNIS DESPERATELY NEEDS. BUT WHEN HE RETURNS TO ROLAND GARROS, HE’LL BE ...

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His parents eat at my nephew’s restaurant. His sister was friends in school with my husband’s sister. The selfie requests are mi ...

EARLY RISER Nadal first won the French Open in 2005. In ’22, he’ll still be a favorite to lift the trophy. ...

T ECHNICALLY, NADAL started his 2022 season on New Year’s Eve. Having just kicked COVID-19— because he needed yet another obstac ...

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and former players. He’s a beast (Federer). He’s money under pres- sure (Jim Courier). He’s a stone- cold killer (Bob Bryan). Na ...

T HE EMERGENCE of Nadal—and emergence of a proto-Nadal—couldn’t have come at a better time for men’s tennis. Federer remains a d ...

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BEARD BUT TRUE Before he was a clean-cut leader at Camp Ritchie, Leavitt was a shaggy-haired football player, wrestler, cop and ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SI.COM JUNE 2022 75 It was, of course, preposterous on its face—the World War II equivalent of, say, The Rock ...

about the Ritchie Boys in her book Immigrant Soldier, Leavitt’s charges “soon got over their awe of the huge and famous instruct ...

an officer” after he admitted to making several trips to the crime boss’s home in Palm Island. Leavitt tried to draw a line, tel ...

of true skill exposed, was forced to submit. The famed “double cross” eroded fan confidence and undermined “the trust”—akin to “ ...