Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Taking nominations ...

With the awesome SI cover this week. I'm taking nominations for the best SI cover ever. We'll post the winners. It will be great!

Drop your nominations in the comments section below.

(I should have said this at the top -- swimsuit covers are not eligible).

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113 comments:

  1. The John Wooden tribute from this year gets my vote.

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  2. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/SI-turns-the-Tampa-Bay-Rays-into-comic-book-hero?urn=mlb-83693

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  4. Not because of the picture, but the subtitle is epic and of course it's the only cover the Royals have had in 25 years.
    http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/zack-greinke-si-cover-sports-illustrated.jpg

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  6. Most Jayhawks will agree with me on this one:

    Mario's Miracle - http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2008/0414_mid.jpg

    I don't see how there can ever be any consensus on a question like this though. Every person's favorite cover will be the one highlighting his or her team.

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  7. This may be a copout, but I'd stick with issue No. 1, 1954. Eddie Matthews.

    If that doesn't count, I'm going with Mario's MIracle as a Jayhawk fan.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/7370/index.htm

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  8. Call me biased, but:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/11226/index.htm

    Red Sox 2004 world series championship cover.

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  9. I have a few (hope that's okay).

    - Michael Jordan hologram cover (12/23/91)
    - The Prior/Wood fireball cover (7/7/03)
    - The Beer cover (8/8/88)

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  10. Tons of good ones, but I'm partial to the Ted Williams memorial cover of 7/15/02.

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  11. I like this one, if just to see how high the defenders got:

    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1778

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  12. I'll go with this one:

    http://images.picturesdepot.com/photo/s/st._louis_cardinals_sports_illustrated-19558.jpg

    Yes I'm biased toward the Cardinals but I like it because it's kind of a good pic to show the crazy and memorable career of David Eckstein.

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  14. Ted:
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/7420/index.htm

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  15. http://bolstablog.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/1987-minnesota-twins-world-series-sports-illustrated-cover.jpg

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  16. Easy, have to rep Cleveland hard:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9572/index.htm

    Terrell Brandon: Man, Myth, Legend.

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  17. Baseball, especially Red Sox baseball, is my passion, but this is my favorite cover of all time:

    http://www.sicovers.com/data/default/images/catalog/medium/SPR20010618.jpg

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  18. Mark is right - a lot of the submissions will be biased towards one's favorite team.

    So with that in mind:

    1971 Game of the Century -

    Irresistible Oklahoma meets Immovable Nebraska

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8256/index.htm

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  19. Always loved this one. He truly was the greatest.

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  20. Definitely Miracle on Ice.

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  21. MJ Commerative issue, can't rememberr the year but here is the link...awesome...
    http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/sarah-spain/assets_c/2009/11/1104_large-thumb-342x444-30624.jpg

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  22. I'm biased, but I'd pick one of these. http://www.blueplanetshots.com/True-Blue/SI-Covers/7519397_r7Lzg#485625648_eRhft

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  23. This one is good and pretty famous: http://rushthecourt.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/kentucky-shame.jpg

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  24. My bias opinion is the Chase Daniel cover after the 2007 win over kansas at Arrowhead.
    My unbias opinion is the one from the Carolina Panthers run to the super bowl in 2003 Moose Muhammad quieting the Philadelphia Eagles fans. That was a great one.

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  25. How about April 13, 1981 or, wait, I mean August 10, 1981 - they were the same cover Brett and Schmidt!
    No, actually, probably "The Catch" with Dwight Clark - Jan. 18, 1982

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  26. Here's a link to the Muhammad cover http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9971/index.htm

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  27. 34 years after the event, but who's quibbling? One of the great sports photos of all time, not just a great SI cover:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9701/index.htm

    "Get up and fight, sucker!"

    Still can't believe this wasn't the cover back in 1965 when it happened.

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  28. Augusta, 1996. Norman slumped over, hands on his knees. Just captured the shock and the heartbreak so well.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9531/index.htm

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  29. Worst cover is easy. Snaggle-toothed Bobby Clark, 2-23-76 instead of Dorothy Hamill. Still feel the shock.

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  30. What's the #1 rule all little league coaches preach? KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL...

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9005/index.htm

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  31. MJ '87: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9097/index.htm

    Booger '97: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9600/index.htm

    Ali '99 (though it was a reprint and not current, just the best picture ever): http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9701/index.htm

    Lance '05: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/10094/index.htm

    Barry '07: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/10814/index.htm

    This was a great waste of time ...

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  32. [url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9006/index.htm]Favourite golf cover[/url]

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  33. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9582/index.htm

    They called it...

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  35. I second the nomination of the Rays comic book cover. I'm 29, so I was surprised at how much more I liked the 60s/70s covers. I think it's easier to get classic covers when you don't have so much text.

    Others:

    Tony Conigliaro: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8183/index.htm

    The NBA/ABA merger with Dave Cowens and Dr. J:
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8508/index.htm

    The best of the many, many great Ali covers: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8125/index.htm

    The homer pick - Junior in 1995: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9505/index.htm

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  36. The Dream Team cover with Magic, Michael, Charles, the Mailman, and Patrick Ewing.

    Not sure if this link works here...

    http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:osOXqtOvqvJNNM:http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/pboettke/images/dream%20team.jpg&t=1

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  37. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/CharlesThompsonSI-01.jpg

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  38. wow so many that jump to mind.
    2 of my personal favorites, non-event driven are the cover w/ the scoreboard E from I think 1989 and the Ralph Sampson- Patrick Ewing foldout cover for the 1982 college basketball preview.

    Event related:
    The monica Seles stapping one, it conveys that absolute horror of Seles at the time. also the U of Miami player kissing the cheerleader.

    Ok, more that spring to mind: Wetteland jumping into Giradi's arms 1996 WS. Magic & Gretzky after the THE TRADE. Black & White NYC Street Ball cover. Also as a Giants fan the Tyree catch.

    Least Favorites: any w/ Jordan and the 2004 Red Sox. Hey I'm a Knicks and Yankees fan.

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  39. Emmitt Smith on a float in a pool. Classic. As a Cowboys fan, that cover brought more man-love out of me than anything else to this day, although my wife would say the Rolling Stone with Leo on the cover brought more. She didn't know me then...

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  40. Emmitt baby!!!!!

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9541/index.htm

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  41. Was eagerly awaiting the Greinke cover last year, but thought it was one of the worst ever.

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  42. Definitely Miracle on Ice. That's the only cover that I would have framed to hang on my wall. And I was about a year old when that happened.

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  43. Not even a Razorbacks fan, but I have never forgotten the one with a soaring Sidney Moncrief. This was just plain cool.
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8575/index.htm

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  44. The one that had Cory Snyder and Joe Carter on the front that said the Indians were going to win the World Series.
    .....
    OH, wait, we're not picking the funniest?

    OK, then either the 1985 cover A Royal Crown or Mario's Miracle. And yes I'm obviously biased.

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  45. This is one of the few I've saved over the years, though admittedly mainly for the content, not the cover. I still love that J.R. Richard HOF plaque. . . .
    http://www.sicovers.com/product.aspx?pid=1021

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  47. I don't know what the best cover ever was, but that Jim Thome at Target Field cover is freaking awesome.

    You know, the Cubs broadcast on WGN used to show various shots of Wrigley Field from different angles, and the shots were interspersed throughout the game. I thought because of that the viewer got a feel for what Wrigley was like, sort of. But no other broadcast really does that. We'll see shots of fans but no shots of the stadium. I would think this would be kind of obvious for brand new stadiums. Why not show off the gorgeous structure they just built? Is it difficult to have a roaming camera guy or two taking video shots from cool angles, like the angle on that SI cover?

    I had heard Target Field was gorgeous, but from TV it simply looks like a standard retro-style ballpark of no distinction. This SI cover says otherwise. Perhaps TV broadcasts could help us TV viewers out a little.

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  48. This Bonds cover is so simple but tells the story so well:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/10294/index.htm

    Mickelson getting hang time:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9984/index.htm

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  49. I know its sentimental and not a typical SI cover...

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9810/index.htm

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  50. http://cache4.asset-cache.net/xc/91248825.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921CC759DF4EBAC47D059292E951462DD2A284BBBE750B26D402C9297214A6A665D

    And because I'm a Nate Washington fan...

    http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2009/0119_large.jpg

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  51. ntana-2009
    Lincecum-2008
    Bonds 8/13-2007
    Pedro-3/2000
    Jeter-6/99
    Griffey jr.-5/99
    Griffey jr.-10/95
    D. Cone-4/93
    Maris/Mantle-5/91
    Mays-10/92
    Sandberg-3/92
    W. Clark-5/90
    Griffey jr.-5/90
    T. Williams-4/90
    B. Jackson-6/89
    Strawberry-7/88
    Gooden-9/85
    Berra-4/84
    Brett-3/84
    Morgan, Rose, Perez-3/83
    Seaver-4/83
    Yaz/Rose-7/82
    Carlton-7/80
    Stargell/Bradshaw-12/79
    Ryan-7/79
    Aaron-4/74
    Fisk-9/72
    Mays-5/72
    Harrelson-9/70
    Mantle-6/56
    Williams-8/55
    Mathews-8/54

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  52. I'll keep it to baseball

    Greinke-2009
    Santana-2008
    Lincecum-2008
    Bonds 8/13-2007
    Pedro-3/2000
    Jeter-6/99
    Griffey jr.-5/99
    Griffey jr.-10/95
    D. Cone-4/93
    Maris/Mantle-5/91
    Mays-10/92
    Sandberg-3/92
    W. Clark-5/90
    Griffey jr.-5/90
    T. Williams-4/90
    B. Jackson-6/89
    Strawberry-7/88
    Gooden-9/85
    Berra-4/84
    Brett-3/84
    Morgan, Rose, Perez-3/83
    Seaver-4/83
    Yaz/Rose-7/82
    Carlton-7/80
    Stargell/Bradshaw-12/79
    Ryan-7/79
    Aaron-4/74
    Fisk-9/72
    Mays-5/72
    Harrelson-9/70
    Mantle-6/56
    Williams-8/55
    Mathews-8/54

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  53. Miracle on Ice 1980. So good it doesn't have any words. I can feel the emotion seeping from that cover, and I'm Canadian.

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  54. Two fantastic Anthony Davis covers from the USC-ND battles of 1973 and 1974.

    1973: Notre Dame stacks up USC. Anthony Davis goes nowhere.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8356/index.htm

    1974: What a comeback! USC and Anthony Davis shatter Notre Dame.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8412/index.htm

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  55. 2/27/1978 LEON!

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8577/index.htm

    What a smile!

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  56. Greatest Series ever, and the Big Red Machine finally wins it all.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8458/index.htm

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  57. I'd go with Miracle on Ice as well. I saw the game in Buffalo with some American friends. I swear they didn't know if it was a dream or what ... and still it wasn't the Gold Medal game which was an afterthought.

    Though I'd have been happier with a certain hockey cover from 1972, alas it didn't merit attention south of the border, to make the cover.

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  58. - Sidney Moncrief

    - Miracle on Ice

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  59. Miracle On Ice in a runaway.

    Dwight Clark 1982 NFC Championship also awesome.

    My biased choice and favorite posed cover is Stargell and Bradshaw, 1979 SOTY. There's a picture within the mag of those two with a couple steelworkers that's even better than the cover.

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  60. Post 9/11. Simple and elegant.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9810/index.htm

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  61. Sorry. Miracle on Ice wins.

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  62. Actually, I said "Miracle on Ice", but I think that SI's "Man of the Year" cover with Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa wearing togas probably the funniest.

    In retrospect, of course.

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  63. Miracle on Ice (Mar 1980 - no caption required)
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8681/index.htm

    Extremely honorable mention: "Everybody's All-Americans" (Dec 2001)
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9823/index.htm

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  64. July 6, 2009- A Good Man Down
    August 18, 2008- King of the Pool
    November 26, 2007- Dream Season
    January 29, 2007- Yes He Can
    August 5, 2005- What A Ride
    April 19, 2004- Masterstroke

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  65. The Mickey Mantle tribute after he died.

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  66. No matter what has happened since, the 2001 post-Masters cover after Tiger won his 4th straight major stays with me.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golf/pga/features/tiger/main/coverlarge0416.html

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  67. Yankees fan who is biased in favor of the Mickey Mantle cover on 8/21/95. Love that there are no headlines and that Mickey is so young in the photo.

    Most memorable for me are Dennis Rodman "Rare Bird" cover 5/25/95 and the Boston College "Take That Tar Heels" cover from 3/28/94.

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  68. Albert Pujols "Don't Be Afraid to Believe in Me"

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  69. Miracle on Ice would be hard to beat. Another that sticks with me is the Gary McLain cocaine story from March 16, 1987 - an arresting visual:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9054/index.htm

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  70. i have this one framed...so sue me

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/11267/index.htm

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  71. The absolute best was the cover of the 1986 Football Preview issue, with Jim McMahon sitting on Brian Bosworth's shoulders. Freakin' Awesome! Nothing sums up the 1980s better then the Punk QB and the Punk. I was a freshman in college, playing football, and the equipment manager assigned me number 9...just wearing McMahon's number gave me skills.

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  72. Enough with all the "yayyy, my team won!" vanity nominations.

    This non-Tiger fan suggests 1977's "Mark Fidrych and friend."

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8540/index.htm

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  73. Michael Jordan-The Hall of Fame Commemorative Issue

    http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/sarah-spain/2009/11/michael-jordan-lands-on-sis-cover-for-57th-time.html

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  74. Wait...forgot one, although it is not my favorite. How about the one with Big Bird and Mark the bird Fydrich?

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  75. Not even close - Miracle on Ice: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8681/index.htm

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  76. The Michael Jordan 1991 Sportsman of the Year cover is a legend -- the only SI cover with a hologram and one of the few to be stolen in mass quantities from mailboxes (nearly an epidemic in Chicago around Christmas 19 years ago).

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  77. So many great ones come to mind, but I've always loved the cover of the 1970 NFL preview issue:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8196/index.htm

    Because it captured Butkus in all his fearsome, looming malevolence. Never mind that the Bears were coming off a 1-13 season!

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  78. November 27, 2007. Kerry Meier of Kansas making a leaping over-the-shoulder touchdown catch against Iowa State, with a packed house behind him. I'm biased because I'm a Jayhawk, but it's really a beautiful photo

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  79. I love the obscurity/randomness of the early SI covers. Two squash guys (2/10/1958)? Bridge(10/14/1957)? A chukar partridge (10/10/1955)?

    My pick for best (photo) from the 1950s is NY Giant QB Chuck Conerly 12/3/1956 (http://157.166.255.4/vault/cover/featured/7490/index.htm).

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  80. As an Indians fan, gotta go with about the biggest highlight of my youth, the 87 Cory Snyder/Joe Carter cover:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9057/index.htm

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  81. My Top 10:
    1. Miracle on Ice
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1516
    2. Dwight Clark-The Catch
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1443
    3. Sidney Moncrief
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1587
    4. Dr. J
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1429
    5. Sugar Ray vs. Hearns
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1455
    6. Kirby (my one nod to homerism)
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1129
    7. Stallworth's catch
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1520
    8. Johnny Mac
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1463
    9. young Jordan
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1351
    10. Jack Lambert
    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=1362

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  82. The first one to come to my mind was the catch:
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8779/index.htm

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  83. I don't like the clutter of the modern covers and a lot of them get split up into region specific pictures. Here are five of my favorites in no particular order...

    Maradonna at the peak of his powers in the best World Cup ever played:
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9017/index.htm

    #4, Bobby Orr (the ice always makes for great cover shots):
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8176/index.htm

    Followed by a much sadder entry for Boston:
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8183/index.htm

    I prefer these old minimalist covers to the modern ones:
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/7975/index.htm

    I'm not a huge Lance fan but this is my favorite recent cover (that doesn't involve the Red Sox winning the World Series):
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/10094/index.htm

    And just for fun:
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/7439/index.htm
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/7521/index.htm

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  84. Biased from Seattle but. . .

    1) Boom time in Seattle (1979)

    2) Ken Griffey Junior The Natural (1990)

    3) Junior -- Yankee Killer (1995)

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  85. This is one of my favorites:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/10098/index.htm

    Just so funny in hindsight.

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  86. I nominate this for least prophetic: Frazier knocking down Ali, with the text "End of the Ali Legend." I think Ali got up.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8220/index.htm

    But this is the best, for me:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8408/index.htm

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  87. I was going to say the Thome cover from 1995 was my favorite of all time, because it looked like a great modern update of the classic first SI cover (w/ E.Matthews). Of course, the memory lies. It turns out it wasn't the cover at all; just a photo to begin a feature article.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/edb/reader.html?magID=SI&issueDate=19950710&mode=reader_vault Pg. 34-35

    And of course, the current Thome cover immediately reminded me of that 1995 photo. Bravo to SI

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  88. This will never win, but I love it ... That Old School Spirit (Sampson, King, Aguirre):

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8721/index.htm

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  89. The most prescient cover that SI ever published was likely this one, which believe it or not ran in June 1969.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8132/index.htm

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  90. Jan. 24, 1972. Duane Thomas on the cover. Dallas just won its first Super Bowl. I was 11 years old and this was the first magazine that wasn't a comic book I ever purchased. I remember this not because the cover was an eye-popping photo or illustration, but because Dallas won the big game.

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  91. August 25, 2008- Michael Phelps with 8 gold medals around neck

    or

    November 17, 2003 - Trent Green dropping back to pass with bold print: "The Chiefs: PERFECT (so far)" after KC started 9-0 (ok, this one's a homer pick)

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  92. Jay Buhner and his son eating the bat has always been a personal favorite of mine.

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  93. It's hard (impossible?) to top Miracle on Ice, but my personal favorite was printed on 10/25/71, and was entitled "Classic Confrontations.". It is a picture of Gus Johnson and Dave Debusschere bossing each other out under the basket.

    http://sportsillustrated.CNN.com/vault/cover/featured/8252/index.htm

    Those boys could play.

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  94. As a character study, this will always be my favorite:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/7758/index.htm

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  95. Top Covers of the 2000’s
    1. Drew Brees
    2. Michael Phelps
    3. A Team for All Time
    4. Gold Rush
    5. The Week That Sports Stood Still
    6. Mariano Rivera
    7. Zack Greinke
    8. Brett Favre
    9. Mario’s Miracle
    10. Masterstroke

    Top Covers of the 1990’s

    1. KO’d
    2. Brandi Chastain
    3. MADMAN!
    4. Tiger Woods
    5. Joe Carter
    6. Michael Jordan hologram
    7. O.J. Simpson
    8. Rare Bird Rodman
    9. Iron Man
    10. The Natural

    Top Covers of the 1980’s

    1. Miracle on Ice
    2. BEER
    3. 0-18 Orioles
    4. The Catch
    5. World Series Earthquake
    6. BC Point-Shaving Scheme
    7. The Soviet Boycott
    8. Tony Mandarich
    9. Wayne Gretzky
    10. Baseball




    Top Covers of the 1970’s

    1. HR #715
    2. Master fixer
    3. Evel Knievel
    4. Archie Griffin
    5. Magic Johnson
    6. Women get a raw deal
    7. Collision in the East
    8. Joe Namath
    9. Winter Sports
    10. Pittsburgh Champions

    Top Covers of the 1960’s

    1. Joe Namath
    2. Ted Williams
    3. Vince Lombardi
    4. The Spitball
    5. Drugs: A Threat to Sports (1969!)
    6. Arnold Palmer
    7. Candlestick Park
    8. Golf
    9. Kentucky Derby
    10. Boats

    Top Covers of the 1950’s

    1. Eddie Mathews
    2. Hi TV Fans
    3. Ted Williams

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  96. Jordan Hologram issue

    Buehrle's perfect game

    Jordan and Rodman - Air and Space

    Phil Jackson - Running with the Bulls

    There was an issue about the 96 Bulls that showed them on the team plane.

    Rodman - Rare Bird

    Frank Thomas - Don't question my desire

    Bulls - Last Stand

    Reggie White free agency issue with the cutout uniforms

    Eric Dickerson - One happy camper

    I could've swore there was a issue after Walter Payton died....so sad.

    The White Sox World Series champs 2005

    For pure nostalgia, I gotta say the hologram is my favorite. For pure aesthetics, Air and Space is my all time favorite. Back in 96 in seemed the Bulls were on cover every week, and I loved it. All the covers and titles are paraphrased and are from straight memory, so they might be sketchy.

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  97. No contest in my mind. Cold War. 1980 Olympics. USA Hockey. Greatest moment in U.S. sports history. Just pulled it out and looking at it on my desk, right now. No headline. Just an unbelievable shot. March 3, 1980. $1.25.

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  98. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8910/index.htm

    I love his smile

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  99. The one that guy was holding when he shouted at you on the plane.

    Joe, come on, get that post up

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  100. Can we have a separate category for covers that would be exponentially better without text? Jordan, Game 6.
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/9644/index.htm

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  101. cover in the 90's (i want to say 1997) about steroids was perfect

    had a picture of a flexed arm/bicep and a hyperdermic needle - ahead of its time really

    Paul Tannahill

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  102. The June 12 1989 cover of Bo Jackson with the title, "Nobody Hits 'Em Like Bo"

    http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/1989/0612_large.jpg

    Just a beautiful cover. My all-time favorite.

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  103. Ali-Frazier, from 1971:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/edb/reader.html?magID=SI&issueDate=19710301&mode=reader_vault

    Mark

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  104. A homerism favorite, to be sure, but considering the smack that David Boston was talking before The Game, this one is hard to beat. 12/1/97.

    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=892

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  105. 1974, Hank Aaron after hitting 715.

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  106. Not even a mention for Cheryl Teigs?

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  107. The time Nascar was on the cover.

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  108. A random one 2.13.78 according to SI vault. High on the Hogs with Sidney Moncreif headed for a dunk.

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  109. Very simple, very easy - The Sistine Chapel of sports.

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  110. Kathy Ireland, 25th Anniversary Swimsuit Issue.

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  111. The college basketball preview issue: Larry Bird, College Basketball's Secret Weapon

    Hard to believe in this day and age, but that was probably the first most people had ever seen or read about Bird, since he played at tiny Indiana State.

    The worst in my opinion was the swing and miss SI had with "Why the University of Miami should drop football"

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  112. The Miracle on Ice cover is amazing, but I like the Drew Brees cover following the Saints' Super Bowl win even better:

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/11385/index.htm.

    Outstanding picture.

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  113. I love football in the snow

    http://www.sicovers.com/Product.aspx?pid=2117

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