Back when I was a young man, Sports Illustrated was THE sports magazine and I read it cover to cover as soon as it came in the mail. It is hard to describe how much this magazine meant to me, so it is even harder to describe how disappointed I have become in the magazine over the past few years. I am not going to theorize as to what drove the quality of the magazine down (FYI - it had something to do with the Internet) , but would rather bring back to you those great times of Sports Illustrated.

The way I am able to do that, is through the generosity of Sports Illustrated who have set up an online archive of 50+ years of articles, covers and photos. I am not going to go through Dr. Z’s predictions which I know to be wrong 80-90% of the time, but have been going through the photos and the covers, especially the covers.

Below is a selection of some of my favorites so far:

Bjorn

Larry Bird

Leon