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Sports Illustrated. You used to go to the magazine for the best in sports journalism.

Making the cover of SI could turn an already big name in sports into a global superstar. It was the magazine that

loved sports for the sake of sports while also bringing a literary creativity

that turned sports articles into great sports stories.

Okay, so that was a long time ago and in more recent times, SI, well let me just put it this way.

For those of you old enough to remember, you remember there was that ABC Wild World of

Sports intro from the late, late 1970s, the one where that ski jumper sports intro,

the one where that ski jumper in the intro

who represented not the thrill of victory,

but the agony of defeat.

That guy who crashed so badly while coming off the ramp that honestly

he just could not look away? Yeah, that's the Sports Illustrated of recent years.

So you'd think things couldn't get much worse for the magazine.

And then along comes SI writer Drew Ortiz.

He, quote, grew up in a farmhouse surrounded by woods, fields, and a creek. His profile

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