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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,......

By Jon Wertheim Williams’s thrilling three-round run captivated the sports world in the first week of the U.S. Open, but intrigue remains entering the tournament’s second half. The Serena Open is over. Allegedly. And what a five-day event it was. A sendoff befitting a regal and unrivaled player. High production value. High celebrity quotient. High prices. High ratings. High quality tennis—so much so that the featured performer has left open the door (if ever so slightly) to continuing. She didn’t add to her haul of Majors—“23 and Me” endorsement?—but represented herself (and tennis) brilliantl......

By Kenny Loggins Kenny Loggins’s iconic—and Dylan-inspired!—theme song, “I’m Alright,” catapulted a golf movie, kicked off a rock ’n’ roll feud and created a particularly boozy Grammys moment. Excerpted from Still Alright: A Memoir, by Kenny Loggins with Jason Turbow. Copyright © 2022. Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. My story about Caddyshack actually starts with a different soundtrack: Barbra Streisand’s 1976 remake of A Star is Born, for which I wrote the song “I Believe in Love.” While I was at Barbara’s Malibu home during that process, I got to know h......

By Ross Dellenger The bill is being introduced a year after inequalities between the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments triggered outrage among college sports and U.S. leaders. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The NCAA’s most celebrated weekend of the year, the Final Four, is coming with a wave of congressional movement. Three Democratic House members are introducing a bill that would create a 16-member congressional commission to investigate gender equity within the NCAA’s operation of tournaments, championships and other programs that have both men’s and women’s divisions. The Gender Equity in Colle......