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Grant Wahl could throw a dinner party. He and his wife, Céline Gounder, hosted them monthly for Grant's Sports Illustrated colleagues. The idea wasn't to bring together a collection of the familiar, but to gather a group of co-workers who might know little about the others, if they knew anything…

Wahl profiled Beckham for SI in 2007 and published a book about his Los Angeles Galaxy tenure in 2009.

Wahl covered both Adams and Sauerbrunn during his time as a soccer writer.

The esteemed journalist spent seven years with the network as a part of his monumental career.

In more than two decades at SI, Wahl produced numerous magazine cover stories and executed countless other high-impact features as part of a decorated career.

A titan in the industry, he covered soccer with vigor and affection, and it was hard not to be inspired by his approach to the work.

Wahl wrote James’s first SI cover story when the future NBA superstar was a high school junior.

Wahl is known primarily for his writing on soccer, where he shaped the growth of the sport in the U.S.