Sports Illustrated - USA (2021-12-15)

(Maropa) #1

10 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED | SI.COM


SCORECARD


  1. HIS OWN WORST ENEMY
    In a November game Jaguars
    linebacker Josh Allen sacked,
    intercepted and recovered a
    fumble from Bills quarterback
    Josh Allen.

  2. BARON WASTELAND
    In a single inning of a game
    against the Biloxi (Miss.) Shuckers,
    relief pitchers for the Double A
    Birmingham Barons walked
    13 batters, hit another and threw
    two wild pitches.

  3. LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE
    Coors brewed a special edition
    Coors Light made with ice shavings
    scraped from Amalie Arena, the
    Lightning’s home rink.

  4. THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
    In August, after Arsenal lost its
    Premier League opener to newly
    promoted Brentford, the president
    of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, posted a
    multitweet thread ripping the team.

  5. THE BEAUTIFUL GAME,
    PART II
    When a scuff le broke out after
    he issued a red card, the referee
    of an adult league soccer game
    in Oklahoma got a .38-caliber
    handgun from his car and fired it
    toward players and spectators.
    25. THE BAD NEWS IS...
    A Greenpeace protester attempting
    to paraglide over the Allianz Arena
    in Munich before the France-
    Germany soccer match at the
    Euros crashed into overhead
    camera wires, rained debris onto
    spectators, injured two people and
    had to make an emergency landing
    on the field.
    26. THE GOOD NEWS IS...
    “Because of the Greenpeace logo, it
    was decided not to have the snipers
    intervene,” the Bavarian interior
    minister told Bild.
    27. WATER HAZARD
    European Tour golfer Jeff Winther
    of Denmark was trapped in a
    hotel bathroom with his wife for
    45 minutes on the Sunday morning
    of the final round of the Mallorca
    Open. “Our little girl Nora, 6 years
    old, had to go and find guys at
    reception to break down the door,”
    he said hours later, after winning
    the tournament.
    28. SUBTERRANEAN
    HOMESICK BOULES
    A man in Norton Shores, Mich.,
    was replacing his back steps when
    he discovered 158 bowling balls
    buried beneath his house.


ONE MAN’S


JUNK IS
ANOTHER

MAN’S


TREASURE


A pair of
Michael Jordan’s
old underpants,
showing
signs of
“definite use,”
sold in a Lelands
auction for
$3,340.80.

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