Sports Illustrated - USA (2022-06)

CANDACE PARKER CHICAGO SKY A two-time WNBA champ, the first woman featured on the NBA2K cover and a college basketball and NBA s ...

WHERE WE’VE BEEN A half century ago, the passing of Title IX helped women take their first strides toward leveling the playing f ...

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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 58 SPORTS MERCHANDISE When Sky shooting guard Kahleah Copper dropped 22 points in Game 3 of the 2021 WNBA Fin ...

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 ...