John Walters

Joined: Dec 11, 2013

Sports Illustrated

‘Pickleball Is the Wild, Wild West’: Inside the Fight Over the Fastest-Growing Sport in America

Soccer

How the First USWNT in 1985 Paved the Way for Women in Soccer

Media

Dick Cavett: A Conversation Piece

Softball

In 1976, some of the media teams branched out and formed their own league and they called it the New York Press League.

MLB

The Spectacular Rise and Sudden Fall of Print Media ... on the Softball Field

For so many in publishing, the Heckscher Fields were where writers and editors, ringers and the occasional singer all fought across decades for softball supremacy.

NFL

I Watched Every XFL Game—So You Don’t Have To

At the midpoint of Season One, here’s what you need to know, what the NFL needs to borrow and what everyone can go ahead and forget.

College

This Future Dentist Once Dropped 54 Straight. Then He Was Lost to Time

On a March day in 1951, Bill Mlkvy, NCAA basketball’s points leader, outscored all his opponents, combined. No one has touched his record since.

College

From Way Outside: He's Averaging 33.3 Points and You Don't Know His Name

The NCAA's leading scorer in 2019-20 is a 6'1" married guard for Gordon College basketball: Eric Demers.

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Mountain of memories

On Wednesday, March 9th, I phoned my old friend Shelley Poe, the sports information director at West Virginia, and told her that the SI On Campus road trip

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To T.O. or not to T.O. (cont.)

1. Our University of Arizona stringer, James Kelley, informs us that Wildcat baseball coach Andy Lopez missed the first few innings of his team's season-opening

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The system hasn't failed us

Maybe I'm getting my stories mixed up, but I hear that folks in the Ukraine are so dissatisfied with the recent election results that they're clamoring for a