The best of Grant Wahl at Sports Illustrated

By SI Staff In over two decades at SI, Wahl produced numerous magazine cover stories and executed countless other high-impact features as part of a decorated career. One of Grant Wahl’s favorite annual projects when he worked at Sports Illustrated was called MLS Ambition Rankings. And while the piece was far from his most decorated or glamorous work across two decades of storytelling through writing, podcasting or appearing on camera, it did hit on something that perhaps defined him and his career and what drove him the most: Ambition. No swing was too big, no target too out-of-reach for Wahl,...