Bryce Harper on this week’s Sports Illustrated cover
Bryce Harper has joined the exclusive club of D.C. athletes to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated in the last three years. His company includes Stephen Strasburg and Robert Griffin III — a small...
View ArticleHow and why Sports Illustrated photographed Bryce Harper at the Lincoln Memorial
The first thing I wondered when I saw Bryce Harper’s new Sports Illustrated cover shot was this: How did SI get the NL rookie of the year — one of baseball’s most recognizable figures — in full...
View ArticleGeorgetown back on the (regional) cover of SI
If you’re on a regional cover of Sports Illustrated, are you still on the cover of Sports Illustrated? I say yes. Throw that puppy in a frame on a wall, and no decent house guest would ask what...
View ArticleStephen Strasburg’s Sports Illustrated cover
Well, look at that. Another D.C. athlete on a Sports Ilustrated cover. This time it’s Stephen Strasburg on one of six different regional covers the magazine is releasing for its MLB preview issue....
View ArticleESPN the Magazine, SI both predict Nats win World Series
Sarah noted a few hours ago that Sports Illustrated’s cover story this week predicts the Nats will win the World Series. Turns out ESPN the Magazine is taking the same approach, as seen above. If that...
View ArticleAlex Ovechkin’s almost-SI cover
This, surely, is the most interesting week of national magazine covers in D.C. sports history. RGIII got an ESPN the Magazine cover. So did Bryce Harper. And Jason Collins got a Sports Illustrated...
View ArticleSI on Alex Ovechkin’s relationship with Maria Kirilenko
Alex Ovechkin’s relationship with Maria Kirilenko has frequently been explored in the nooks and crannies of today’s sports journalism world: places like the Style pages, and blogs, and Bogs. But now,...
View ArticleSports Illustrated picks Nats to win World Series
A year ago this week, Sports Illustrated predicted the Nats would win the World Series. It was right there on the cover, along with a giant image of Stephen Strasburg. Well, that prediction didn’t work...
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