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THE PRECISE time of death is hard to pinpoint. But for the record, on May 25, in a rambunctious baseball stadium in Scottsdale, USC and Arizona played for the Pac-12 championship. More critically, it marked the final conference game of the Pac-12—at least as we knew it. A power conference, in every sense, starting in the adolescence of the 1900s, the Pac-12 was a stalwart of college athletics. Its alumni include Cheryl Miller and Marcus Allen (USC); Jackie Robinson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Arthur Ashe (UCLA); Katie Ledecky and Tiger Woods (Stanford); Reggie Jackson and Barry Bonds (Arizona State); and Alex Morgan (Cal). The Pac-12 minted some 2,000 Olympians, far more than any other conference, yielding hundreds of medals. In April’s NFL draft, Caleb Williams (USC) was the top pick, Michael Penix…

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

WHO CALLS LeBron James “the Little Emperor”? Why is James Harden nicknamed “Honey Bun”? Since when is Drew Eubanks known as “the Shaq of Troutdale”? These are all questions chronically online basketball fans have asked themselves while browsing social media and discovering a player’s Basketball Reference page going viral. Basketball Reference, launched in April 2004, is the home to just about every stat needed to cover, research and debate the sport. But one small feature on the site beloved by all users is the list of nicknames featured underneath a player’s name. Some nicknames—like half of the inventory on Charles Barkley’s player page (“the Crisco Kid,” “Goodtime Blimp,” “Leaning Tower of Pizza”)—are so absurd they seem made up. But none, despite many theories from NBA fans, are created by the site’s staff. There’s…

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

SOBRIQUET STORIES

JOSH GIDDEY, BULLS GUARD Himothee Chalamet In January 2023, Chicago play-by-play announcer Adam Amin referred to Giddey, then with OKC, as the “NBA’s version of Timothée Chalamet.” Giddey responded to the chatter on social media by calling himself “Himothee Chalamet” in a post that gained nearly 10 million views. KHRIS MIDDLETON, BUCKS GUARD WD-40 The Freak’s longtime sidekick was known for his relaxed demeanor in the early days of his NBA career. In other words, a “low motor,” as then Pistons assistant coach Steve Hetzel told ESPN in 2019. Hetzel gave Middleton the nickname and once put a can of WD-40 in his locker. REGGIE JACKSON, 76ERS GUARD Big Government Historians are conflicted over the origins of this nickname, as both Pistons and Clippers fans claim they came up with it. No matter who originated the idea, the…

SOBRIQUET STORIES

IT’S THE first day of the fall semester at UT Chat tanooga and Olivia Reeves hasn’t touched a bar in a week and a half. And for good reason: Reeves snatched 117 kg, an Olympic record, and clean-and-jerked 150 kg to win the 71 kg division at the Paris Games, becoming Team USA’s first weightlifting gold medalist since 2000. After a qualification process that began in 2022, Reeves needed some balance. “Before it was like, I don’t need to take time off. I have another competition,” says Reeves. “This is like, You know what? I will take a week in France and a week at home for myself. I’ve never made this decision before, but if there’s a time, I’ll do that now.” Balance is at the core of Reeves’s simple training…

IN 1886, Susan Henn worked as a timekeeper on the crew of Galatea, the British challenger in that year’s America’s Cup, accompanied by her pet raccoon and monkey. She was the first of a handful of women in the 19th and early 20th centuries to participate in the male-dominated sport. In the modern era, American Dawn Riley is arguably the most notable trailblazer, serving as team captain of the all-women’s crew on Mighty Mary, which narrowly missed qualifying to defend the America’s Cup in 1995. But this fall marks a significant milestone in the 173-year history of the competition. In the waters surrounding Port Olímpic off the coast of Barcelona, women in professional sailing will finally get their own standalone event: the inaugural Puig Women’s America’s Cup is set for Oct.…

WHEN HE was in middle school and high school, Josh Rivera played a little football, at linebacker and offensive guard. His self-assessment: “I was a pretty competent guard. As a linebacker, if it was a pass offense, I was useless.” He was a good guard because he was quick, which begs the question, Why not try playing tight end? The answer is simple: “I had no hands.” Rivera still wanted the ball, so he asked repeatedly for a chance to play fullback. He finally convinced his coaches to let him try. The result was a touchdown. “It was like a 50-yard run,” he says. “I broke free of the line. I scored a touchdown and then I quit. I decided to do theater.” Rivera’s latest role has him playing the lead in…

SPORT OF KING’S

NOTABLY ABSENT from this year’s Power List (page 22) is anyone from the world of boxing, which speaks to the sport’s diminished standing. Had such a list been put together 50 years ago, though, a strong case could have been made that the person atop it should have been Don King. In the fall of 1975, the boxing promoter was at the peak of his powers, appearing in SI alongside Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. A year earlier he had turned Ali’s fight with George Foreman—the Rumble in the Jungle—into a month-long cultural event in Zaire. In ’75, he was promoting the third Ali-Frazier fight—the Thrilla in Manilla. Not all of his business moves panned out. King told SI that he could have bought Madison Square Garden with Saudi oil…

SPORT OF KING’S

FACES IN THE CROWD

KARLA DEL GRANDE Sport: Track and Field ▸ Hometown: Scarborough, Ontario Del Grande, 71, won the women’s 70 division 100-meter dash at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, setting a new age-group world record (14.70) while winning the race by .01 of a second. She also won the age-group title in the 200-meter hurdles (37.63) and took silver in the 200 (30.89). Named the World Masters Athlete of the Decade for 2010–20, Del Grande began competing in 2002. RYAN MARTIN Sport: Basketball ▸ Hometown: Wayne, Maine Martin, the varsity basketball coach at Lake Region High in Naples, Maine, sank 1,134 three-pointers in an hour, breaking the Guinness World Record (pending official verification). With four friends rotating as rebounders and two more filling the rack, he hit nearly 19 threes per minute and eclipsed…

FACES IN THE CROWD

FLORIDA TEAMMATES (and roommates) Ian Gilligan and Jack Turner joked on the ninth playoff hole that they didn’t know if the match would ever end. It finally did when Gilligan, mercifully, sank an eight-foot birdie two holes later—the 29th of the final match—to win the Western Amateur Championship at the Moraine Country Club in Dayton, Ohio. Gilligan’s final-match victory was the longest in the 122-year history of the tournament and capped a grueling 154 holes played across five days. After struggling toward the end of the collegiate season and briefly losing confidence in his game, Gilligan is back where he wants to be. He made the cut in his PGA Tour debut at the Barracuda Championship in July, and his Western Amateur win the next month bumped the Reno native into…

TO WIN the Nobel Prize is to find yourself inundated with requests for your time. Harvard economist Claudia Goldin learned this when she received the honor last October: There were committees to join, speeches to give, panels to sit on. The 78-year-old was selective in the offers she accepted. But one earlier this year especially piqued her interest. As the WNBA exploded in popularity, the players were assembling a group of experts to consult on how to use their newfound leverage, and they approached her for a pro bono, advisory role. Goldin immediately said yes. It was a logical match for an economist who has spent decades studying labor outcomes for women. “Everything about the issue interests me,” Goldin says. But the appeal here went beyond simple academic interest. She also…

SINCE BEING drafted No. 7 by the Sky in April, Reese has gone from Bayou Barbie to WNBA All-Star, making a strong case for Rookie of the Year along the way. The 6'3" forward has already turned in a historic season. She set a league record for most consecutive double doubles (15), became the first WNBA rookie to record back-to-back 20-rebound games (a feat not seen at the pro level since fellow LSU alum Shaquille O’Neal did it in April 1993 as an NBA rookie), and is on pace for the league’s highest-ever single-season rebounding average. The 22-year-old has long parlayed her on-court success into savvy business opportunities; she recently paired up for a fitting candy partnership with Reese’s, released a collection with Reebok and has confirmed that she has…

GENERATIONAL talent is a term often thrown around in sports, but only occasionally does an athlete emerge who truly lives up to that billing. The Fever rookie is one of those lightning-in-a-bottle figures. A phenomenon as much as she is a basketball player, Clark illustrates what happens when unparalleled skill meets the right moment. The former Iowa star’s explosion into the mainstream is fueled by her stratospheric shooting ability, launching logo three after logo three to lead her Hawkeyes to back-to-back national championship appearances in 2023 and ’24. Since then, the 22-year-old has been the subject of towering hype, her transition from collegiate prodigy to WNBA rookie covered breathlessly. The increased attention has seen WNBA attendance and viewership numbers grow exponentially. Buzz to that degree could overwhelm even the most poised…

Underestimating this six-time All-Star has proven to be a dangerous game. After finishing third in voting for MVP last year, the Aces center promptly stormed through the postseason on her way to a second WNBA title and was named Finals MVP. The 28-year-old is the best pro women’s basketball player in the world right now, having won everything there is to win—twice. Wilson’s haul includes two Olympic gold medals, two WNBA championships, two MVP awards and two Defensive Player of the Year distinctions. And now she can add a signature shoe with Nike—arriving in 2025—to her growing list of accomplishments. That’s a feat that feels long overdue.…

AFTER TEARING up the Bundesliga, where he won player of the year honors with Borussia Dortmund and became the youngest player to score 50 league goals, the Norwegian prodigy made a high-profile move to Man City in 2022 and has proven himself to be the next great scorer the sport has been waiting for. In his Premier League debut, Haaland broke the single-season scoring record with 36 goals in 35 games in a trophy-laden year for his club (in addition to the league, City won the FA Cup and Champions League). He followed that up with a second straight Golden Boot and a Premier League title last season. So what does the 24-year-old need to do to reach the heights of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo? On an individual level,…

Playing for Deion Sanders, college football’s most accomplished two-way player of the past 40 years, Hunter is out-Priming Coach Prime. As a sophomore in 2023, he averaged 114.7 snaps per game for the Buffaloes, a workload that was unmatched nationally. Hunter spent slightly more time on defense (cornerback) than offense (wide receiver), with a smattering of action on special teams. Despite playing only nine games, he tied for the team lead in interceptions (three) and pass breakups (five) while also leading Colorado in receptions per game (6.3). The NFL will probably view Hunter as a cornerback first, but at this point there’s no reason to place limits on him.…

THE PIRATES’ righthander is power personified on the mound. Skenes averages one of the highest fastball velocities (north of 98 mph) of any MLB starter, but it’s his mid-90s hybrid “splinker” pitch and impeccable command that separates him from the pack and sends opposing hitters back to their dugouts. The No. 1 pick in the 2023 MLB draft was called up by Pittsburgh in May and dominated in such fashion that he became the first rookie pitcher to start the MLB All-Star Game since 1995. The 22-year-old ace has quickly brought hope back to PNC Park, and even if the Pirates aren’t quite ready to return to the playoffs for the first time since 2015, they should be back there in short order with Skenes leading the way.…

WHILE HIS Oilers ulimately watched the Panthers lift the Stanley Cup in June, the Edmonton center was still the star of this year’s Finals. His four-point efforts in Games 4 and 5 pulled his team out of a 3–0 hole, and he became just the sixth player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy while on the losing team. His 42 points in the postseason was the fourth-best total ever, behind only Wayne Gretzky (1985 and ’88) and Mario Lemieux (’91). The 27-year-old also had his seventh 100-point regular season, keeping his career numbers on pace with those greats. Now McDavid will be chasing the achievement that will place him firmly in their company: a Stanley Cup.…

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER

AFTER ENTERING 2024 as the No. 1-ranked player in the world, Scheffler kicked off the season with wins at the Arnold Palmer Championship and the Players, then stiff-armed all pursuers at Augusta on the way to his second green jacket. A traffic misunderstanding at the PGA Championship that resulted in his arrest and brief detainment (charges were later dropped) might have derailed the season of a lesser player but only seemed to galvanize him. He capped a strong summer by shooting an airtight final-round 62 in Paris to win Olympic gold. As the tears flowed from Scheffler atop the medal stand, his competitors may have shuddered at the thought of just how much winning means to the most dominant player since peak Tiger Woods. Really, they’re the ones who should…

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER

VICTOR WEMBANYAMA

LAST SPRING, when the NBA released its list of the most viewed players on its social media, it was topped by the usual suspects: LeBron James, Stephen Curry…and a certain lanky Frenchman. The reigning Rookie of the Year checked in with 1.3 billion views, a nod to the mind-boggling skill set Wemby packs into his 7'4" frame. From Saint-Tropez to San Antonio, fans gobbled up his content. In France, league pass subscriptions had spiked 26% by midseason while Wembanyama’s jersey was the leading seller in all of Europe. In June, French phenoms Zaccharie Risacher and Alex Sarr topped the NBA draft, while countryman Tidjane Salaün went sixth overall. The French revolution has begun.…

VICTOR WEMBANYAMA

TECHNICALLY, CARLOS ALCARAZ was on hand to defend his Wimbledon men’s singles title. But he was so casual and cavalier about it all, he might as well have been there shopping for tennis immortality on Amazon. Why yes, I do think I will take yet another major title. Sure, why not? Please add to cart. The sun looked for all the world like a giant tennis ball perched over Centre Court at the All England Club on July 14. On the lawn itself, tennis’s grand cathedral, Alcaraz dazzled. Never mind that Novak Djokovic—winner of seven Wimbledon titles—stood on the other side of the net. Aligning his transcendent, transfixing skills, Alcaraz played with offense and defense, and relied, alternately, on power, speed and touch. Gliding around the court with grace to suggest…

THIS SUMMER in Paris, Ledecky became the most decorated female Olympian in U.S. history, winning the 800-meter freestyle on Aug. 3 for her 14th medal and ninth gold. Time to take a break and let her body rest? Nah. On Aug. 6, she posted a picture on Instagram of herself in the gym working out. “Made it three days” was the caption. This drive has carried her through four Olympics and will power her pursuit of a fifth. Others have caught up to her in shorter races like the 400, but Ledecky is still the queen of distance swimming, owning the world records and most recent golds in the two longest freestyle events, the 800 and 1,500. She has made no secret of wanting to compete in a domestic Olympics…

FEW COLLEGES have produced as many elite athletes in the last few years as LSU. In the NFL, the Vikings’ Justin Jefferson (above) set the market this offseason for receivers, signing a four-year, $140 million extension. His former college teammate, Bengals wideout Ja’Marr Chase, is looking to move the needle even further. And Chase’s quarterback, Joe Burrow, has already reached a Super Bowl and secured a five-year, $275 million deal that made him the highest-paid player in the NFL last year. The league’s surge in Tiger talent is not limited to those three 2020 CFP champions. Heisman Trophy-winning QB Jayden Daniels, the No. 2 pick in the 2024 draft, is now leading the Commanders. Rookie receivers Malik Nabers and Brian Thomas Jr. are looking to make their names as well with…

ANTHONY EDWARDS

ANY LIST of candidates to be the next face of the NBA has to include the Timberwolves guard, a top-tier talent with crossover appeal. On the court Edwards, 23, has drawn comparisons to Michael Jordan as a tenacious, uber-athletic two-way player with a polished midrange jumper and a flair for aerial acrobatics. Last season, Ant claimed his second All-Star nod, made his first All-NBA team and led Minnesota to the conference finals for the first time in two decades. Off the court, he has acted in a major movie (the Adam Sandler hoops drama Hustle) and released his own signature shoe. He doesn’t lack confidence, either. In July, when asked about fitting in on a star-studded Olympic roster, Edwards declared, “They got to fit in and play around me.”…

ANTHONY EDWARDS

ILONA MAHER THE RUGBY center emerged from the Tokyo Olympics a social media star, thanks to her viral TikToks giving glimpses into the athletes’ village. Since then, Maher has melded being an athlete with being an influencer, mixing her quirky humor with messages of body positivity. In Paris this summer, she leveled up in both roles. Before 2024, U.S. women had never won an Olympic medal in rugby sevens, making their bronze medal performance all the more sweet for the new fans that Maher had brought to the sport. And even though the team won its hardware during the first week of the Games, Maher stayed in Paris through the closing ceremony to celebrate her 28th birthday, work on several brand deals—including one with Google—and continue to give viewers a look…

COOPER FLAGG As the presumptive No. 1 pick of the 2025 NBA draft and the reigning Naismith and Gatorade Player of the Year, the 17-year-old Duke freshman was the only player without NBA experience invited to join the USA Select Team for pre-Olympic prep. CHRIS HENRY JR. The son of late Bengals WR Chris Henry, the 17-year-old committed to Ohio State as the top wideout of the 2026 class. Henry, who was raised by Pacman Jones, trains in California with another of his father’s former teammates, T.J. Houshmandzadeh. LAMINE YAMAL After making his Barcelona debut at 15 years, nine months and 16 days, the Spaniard was the breakout star of Euro 2024. As the youngest goalscorer in tournament history, the right winger was named its best young player a day after he turned 17. ADDY RITZENHEIN The…

ANGEL CITY FC OWNERSHIP GROUP LOS ANGELES-BASED Angel City FC will soon become the most valuable professional women’s sports team ever, just four years after its launch. The rocket ride from nothing to power broker started with a group of cofounders who could comprise a walk-into-a-bar joke. As Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman (above, center) watched the Women’s World Cup with her son in 2019, she noticed both the enthralling nature of the matches and the lack of coverage, especially relative to the men’s tournament. Next into the picture came venture capitalist Kara Nortman (above, left), now founder and managing partner of Monarch Collective. Then Julie Uhrman (above, right), a former executive in the entertainment (Lionsgate), virtual reality content (Jaunt) and gaming console (OUYA, Inc.) industries. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian joined as the…

TRAVIS KELCE & TAYLOR SWIFT THERE HAVE been plenty of famous couples in the sports world in recent decades, but none have approached the level of Tayvis (or Traylor, or Swelce, depending on which fan base you ask), the star pairing between the three-time Super Bowl champion and the biggest musician of this century. The tight end went from T-Swift’s fan to boyfriend thanks to a very public and very adorable courting. They put their relationship on display last September when Swift attended a Bears-Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium, officially vaulting the Swifties into the NFL sphere. Swift, who was in the midst of her record-breaking Eras Tour, proved to be a good luck charm for Kelce’s team last season, which ended with a Super Bowl win—and a postgame celebratory kiss…

ICONS AND LEADERS

JUST LIKE IN 1996, the 2024 U.S. women’s gymnastics team won Olympic gold wearing white leotards that made them appear to be draped in the American flag. Unlike in 1996, they also wore smiles. That, perhaps even more than any hardware, is the Simone Biles effect. “They used to try to put [gymnasts] in a box, and they were like, ‘If you [aren’t] like this, then you’re not going to be successful,’” Biles said in Paris. “And whenever I came around, it wasn’t really my style. At the [Károlyi Ranch, the former national team training facility], nobody really would talk and laugh and all that stuff. But I was like, Yeah, that’s not how I do gymnastics. So I’m going to continue to do it how I know and how I…

ICONS AND LEADERS

IN A FAMILY of coaches, he had long been known as the “third Hurley,” behind father Bob and brother Bobby. But that was before Dan led UConn to back-to-back national championships while winning all 12 NCAA tournament games by double digits. Predictably, suitors came calling this offseason, but Hurley, 51, turned down a pair of tempting job offers—one from Kentucky and another from the Lakers, who dangled a six-year, $70 million deal. Hurley opted to stay with the Huskies for less than half that sum, setting himself up to build a dynasty in Storrs and become the face of men’s college basketball.…

AS IF leading Manchester City to six of the last seven Premier League titles—including the last four—and a Champions League trophy in 2023 weren’t enough, Guardiola has former assistants (Mikel Arteta at Arsenal, Enzo Maresca at Chelsea) and players (Xabi Alonso at Bayer Leverkusen, Vincent Kompany at Bayern Munich) spreading his style and philosophy across Europe. And much to the chagrin of fans tiring of Pep’s heavy-possession and play-out-from-the-back tactics, the biggest compliment you could have given to the top squads at this summer’s European Championship was that they looked like club teams. That was especially true of champion Spain, which was led by player of the tournament Rodri, Man City’s star midfielder. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and increasingly for Pep, that means defeating those…

AS HIS illustrious career approaches its end, the former Barcelona star has shown he isn’t done adding to his legacy just yet. After completing a blockbuster move to Inter Miami and winning the inaugural Leagues Cup in-season tournament (which features teams from MLS and Mexico’s Liga MX, the top division in Mexico), last year Messi went on to become the first to win the Ballon d’Or as the world’s best player while playing for an MLS club. This summer, the 37-year-old continued adding to his trophy collection by winning his second straight Copa América with Argentina, a fitting follow-up to its 2022 World Cup title. Now Messi, who is recovering from an ankle injury suffered during the Copa América final, will focus on the remainder of his first full MLS…

THE COACH who built Michael Phelps into a medal machine again showed his prowess in 2024 with an NCAA men’s title at Arizona State and a bountiful Olympics. If the United Nations of Bowman had been its own entry in Paris, its seven golds, three silvers and one bronze would have been third in the swimming medal table, behind only the U.S. and Australia. That was the haul for Bowman trainees Léon Marchand of France (four golds, one bronze), Regan Smith of the U.S. (two golds, three silver) and Hubert Kós of Hungary (one gold). Now Bowman is taking over at Texas, a perennial NCAA powerhouse, and the next hotshot from France, 17-year-old Olympian Rafael Fente-Damers, has already committed to the Longhorns. So Bowman, 59, will continue to train international…

WHILE PRO basketball’s G.O.A.T. debate rages, the G.O.A.R—greatest of all résumés—is a settled argument. Consider the first page of James’s curriculum vitae: 21 seasons (and counting), four NBA titles, three Olympic gold medals and the league’s all-time scoring record. James will finish his career with more than $500 million in on-court earnings and with more than 200 million followers on Instagram and X. He wields more influence than any American athlete. So what do you get the player with everything? How about a chance to play with his son? That’s what the Lakers gave James by drafting 19-year-old Bronny out of USC with the 55th pick in June. The James duo will be only the fourth father and son to team up in a major professional sport and the first ever…

AT A TIME when women’s college basketball has attained the kind of liftoff that its supporters had long hoped for, it’s fitting that a stalwart of the sport is running its greatest powerhouse. Last season Staley, a two-time Naismith player of the year as a point guard at Virginia in 1991 and ’92 and six-time WNBA All-Star, coached South Carolina to its third national title since 2017. The young Gamecocks were sixth in the preseason rankings but went undefeated and topped Caitlin Clark and Iowa in the championship game. And guess what? Most of the team’s core players are back for the 2024–25 season, meaning Staley will have a good shot at cutting down the nets once again and further enhancing her iconic status in the game.…

AFTER ESTABLISHING Chelsea as an elite side with seven Women’s Super League titles and five Women’s FA Cup trophies, Hayes was made the highest-paid women’s coach in the world by the U.S. national team. Taking over less than two months before the Olympics, she quickly made an impact on a squad that had been in a funk. The U.S. cruised through the group stage and then won its three knockout games without conceding a goal. Just like that, the USWNT is back, gold medals in hand.…

ON THE course, what the 15-time major winner achieved in 2024 will be just a blip in his bio. He played in a mere five events, completed 11 rounds and made the cut only once, at the Masters, where on the weekend he shot 82–77 to finish dead last. But off the course Woods became of one of the game’s most influential power brokers. Last year he was given a seat on the PGA Tour Policy Board, and this year he has been a central figure in negotiations with the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) to strike a deal between the Tour and rival LIV Golf. Woods is so consumed with shaping the sport’s future that he passed on a U.S. Ryder Cup captaincy in 2025 to better focus on…

WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY CEO David Zaslav (right) once said his networks didn’t need the NBA, and less than two years later he no longer has it. With a new media deal, Adam Silver is ending a 35-year relationship with WBD after the 2024–25 season, leaving Zaslav and, most likely, the fan-favorite TNT studio show Inside the NBA behind. STARTING PITCHERS For most of baseball history, checking to see who was starting on the mound each day was a huge part of the sport’s draw. Nowadays, fans are lucky to see a starter even work up a sweat. As MLB’s analytics-driven makeover continues, clubs increasingly employ a long and ever-changing list of hard-throwing relievers to get the 27 outs they need each night. CABLE TELEVISION The NFL already has games split between broadcast TV and streaming…

PRESSURE COOKER

ANOTHER ROAD GAME MEANT ANOTHER CROWD TO JEER BRYCE HARPER, THIS TIME IN COLORADO. PARENTS WITH YOUNG CHILDREN IN TOW SHOUTED AT HIM AND HIS TEAM. SUCH IS THE PERVERSE RESPECT, WITH ITS UNSPOKEN LINING OF FEAR, THAT FANS WEAPONIZE AGAINST THE BEST PLAYER ON THE BEST TEAM IN THE NERVOUSNESS OF THE LAST INNING OF A ONE-RUN GAME. Harper disappointed them. He led his team to victory. It felt so good and so overwhelming in the face of hostility that he broke down and cried. He was 11 years old. “There was a runner on second from the guy that was trying to close it out and they brought me in to pitch,” Harper says. “I got like a pop-up and a punchout and a groundout or something. I remember crying after…

PRESSURE COOKER

EAST BAY GOODBYE

FIFTY YEARS AGO, the A’s won their third straight World Series championship, beating the Dodgers 3–2 in Game 5 in Oakland and sending third baseman Sal Bando (top) into a frenzy. Alas, the A’s only drew 845,693 fans to the Coliseum that regular season, just 11th out of 12 AL teams. Attendance was an issue for much of the franchise’s 56-year stay in the city, which will come to an end when the team begins playing its home games in Sacramento next year ahead of its anticipated move to Las Vegas. While not always large, the club’s fan base was rabid and devoted—and it witnessed an impressive 21 playoff appearances.…

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