Sports Stars

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...

Earl's Pearls

Inside Tennis A series of titanic upsets in the women's draw highlighted a wild first week at Wimbledon • Another sweet-stroking Swiss makes his mark at the All England Club