The End Is Coming for Rafael Nadal The Spaniard was ousted in straight sets in the second round of the Australian Open after suffering a hip injury. How much longer will his body allow him to play? Sports Illustrated · Jan 18, 2023
What We’ll Remember From 2022: Tennis Roger Federer and Serena Williams both retired. Ash Barty, shockingly, retired too. Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia and...that's not even getting into who won the actual tournaments. Sports Illustrated · Dec 28, 2022
Brittney Griner's Story Will Reverberate Far Past 2022 The impact of the Mercury center's nine-month detention in Russia will have a ripple effect that touches every part of the sports world. Sports Illustrated · Dec 23, 2022
Is It Only a Matter of Time Before Every Game Is Streaming? Amazon bought an underwhelming slate of Thursday Night Football games in 2022. But its unique model might allow it to quickly change the way all NFL broadcasts look. Sports Illustrated · Dec 22, 2022
Leagues Might Now Have the Formula for Removing Problematic Owners Do the NBA and the NFL now have a playbook for ousting liabilities without directly voting them out? Sports Illustrated · Dec 21, 2022
ESPN’s Booger McFarland Reveals Crafty Way He’d Stay Warm on Sidelines He explains his trick for dealing with cold-weather games. Sports Illustrated · Dec 20, 2022
College Athletes Still Aren't Being Paid Salaries This year in college sports looked unlike any other, but don't take your eye off the ball. This is still a system that runs on free labor. Sports Illustrated · Dec 20, 2022
Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma’s Call of That Wild Patriots-Raiders Ending Was Perfect Fox’s Kenny Albert and Jonathan needed few words to give us a great call. Sports Illustrated · Dec 19, 2022
Looking Back on the Year of Sportswashing Between the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the World Cup in Qatar and the emergence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, 2022 was the year of reputation laundering through sports. Sports Illustrated · Dec 19, 2022
NFL Fans Can’t Get Enough of Brock Purdy and His Surprising Success Mr. Irrelevant is becoming a huge sensation on social media. Sports Illustrated · Dec 16, 2022
It’s Fine That Roger Federer Didn’t Go Out On His Own Terms The all-time tennis great played his last match as a professional on Friday in a doubles match at the Laver Cup. It was bizarre, but fitting, for an athlete who never seemed trapped by his sport. Sports Illustrated · Sep 23, 2022
SI:AM | Roger Federer’s Grand Finale He picked an excellent partner for the final match of his career. Sports Illustrated · Sep 22, 2022
Serena Williams and Roger Federer changed tennis forever. So will their retirements Williams, 40, and Federer, 41, have both announced in short succession their plans to retire, leaving the tennis world without two of its most iconic players. WEKU · Sep 19, 2022
Sports Illustrated · Sep 12, 2022 SI:AM | Dak’s Injury, Rookie Coaches and More From Week 1 Plus, Alcaraz ascends to No. 1 with the U.S. Open crown.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 3, 2022 Serena Williams Gives the U.S. Open a Show With Retirement Looming It wasn’t the dream title run, but Williams brought out some moments that looked like the Serena of old in what may be her final match.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 1, 2022 Reacting to Serena’s Expectation-Resetting Second-Round Win The 23-time major champion is not in Queens to go down without a fight. She may not go down at all.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 30, 2022 Reacting to Serena’s Triumphant Opening Act of Her Farewell Tour The six-time U.S. Open champion won in straight sets against 27-year-old Montenegro native Danka Kovinić, but what should we expect of her going forward?
Sports Illustrated · Aug 29, 2022 SI:AM | Serena’s Farewell Tour Begins It’s win or go home—for good.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 25, 2022 Novak Djokovic Risking His Legacy by Missing U.S. Open The Serbian star remains unvaccinated against COVID-19, complicating his record chase and status among tennis fans.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 28, 2022 Serena Williams Falls, but Shows This May Not Be the End She lost her first singles match in more than a year to Harmony Tan, but displayed the fight that has made her 27-year career so spectacular.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 27, 2022 SI:AM | The Avalanche Put the Lightning Dynasty on Ice Led by Cale Makar, Colorado captured its first Stanley Cup since 2001.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 17, 2022 The Warriors Are Back on Top Plus, Rory’s in position at the U.S. Open.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 6, 2022 SI:AM | The Warriors Ran Away with Game 2 If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the first two games of the NBA Finals, it’s that both teams are capable of going on runs to completely bury their opponent.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 2, 2022 Both Eyeing a Breakthrough, Gauff and Swiatek to Meet in French Open Final The 2022 final pits a budding American star up against the top-ranked player in the world, who enters Saturday riding a 34-match winning streak.