Sports Stars

The top earners in each league (above) seldom reflect the best-managed franchises or win-loss records

Read about 14-year-old O.J. Simpson's day with Willie Mays at SI.com/WATN.

It's been half a century since the Say Hey Kid led the national pastime on its move to the West Coast. He's still a baseball man at heart, as monumental—and enigmatic—a legend as American sport has ever seen

COOL, THE onetime giant of sports culture that had long been in declining health, died in seclusion last month. In a measure of how forgotten Cool had become, the moment of its passing went largely unnoticed even...

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