Sports Illustrated's first issue came out 70 years ago today. Michael Jordan is on the most covers with 50. cllct gives you the Top 10 and the prices of their most valuable issues. cllct.com/sports-collect…

SI is turning 70 and the golf crew kicked around their favorite covers of all time. Can’t believe how many great editions there have been over the years…. si.com/golf/best-spor…

For GQ Magazine, I went undercover to report on a man who works as a professional whistleblower, a job that earns him millions of dollars from the US government. gq.com/story/how-to-m…

I’ve thumbed through thousands of issues of Sports Illustrated, hundreds of thousands of pages, and this is by far the most jaw-dropping thing i’ve encountered, from 8/22/77. And yes, it’s 100% him. 🤯 45 years before he killed SI, dude wrote in to… complain about mopeds LOLOLOL

I'm working on a coffee table book about the history of women's basketball with Jordan Robinson ✨ So excited for the chance to showcase the stories of so many incredible women across decades of the game

ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention Alex Morgan dlvr.it/TD0Qkx

In May 1977, 27-year-old toy designer George Willig scaled the World Trade Center’s south tower using no ropes or belay, just a set of homemade “ascendeurs”—expanding wedges, with foot straps, that fit into the channels of the WTC siding. From Sam Moses: vault.si.com/vault/1977/06/…

Darren Rovell Ken Goldin Michael Rubin More from behind the scenes 👀

March 31, 1958 Sports Illustrated

My semi-annual reminder that the Sports Illustrated Vault—what should be the world’s greatest sports journalism trove—is woefully nonfunctional: Here’s a great Halloween-themed story I’d like to share from Rick Telander, ca. 1972… but the story doesn’t exist online, so you get PDFs instead

HBDx3 “…LeBron James, Tiger Woods and Sandy Koufax were all born on Dec. 30, which is also the day (in 1968) that Frank Sinatra recorded “My Way.” Through it all, when there was doubt, those four ate it up and spit it out…” —from the great Steve Rushin vault.si.com/vault/2015/08/…

Pub Day. Available now: Buy early and often. Launch chat/signing with the great Stefan Fatsis tonight at DC's Politics & Prose, CT Ave, 7 p.m.

my friend Job Garcia was arrested by ICE while running errands in Los Angeles. He is a US Citizen, a scholar and a brilliant photographer but none of that defines his humanity. ICE should free Job immediately.

Wavin Flag and Waka Waka for the same World Cup. The Shaq and Kobe of hype songs. Will never be topped.