Sports Illustrated June 2023

JANUARY 14, 1967 A crowd of more than 60,000 saw the AFL-NFL World Championship Game—retronymed Super Bowl I—but that still left plenty of empty seats in the cavernous stadium. DECEMBER 3, 2005 Thanks to Reggie Bush, USC—whose campus abuts the stadium—pulled off one of its biggest wins of the century at the Coliseum with a 66–19 drubbing of UCLA (which shared the field with the Trojans for more than 50 years). FEBRUARY 2, 1958 Duke Snider was ready for the Dodgers to christen their new home, which they did two months later in front of a crowd of 78,672. JULY 27, 1984 Carl Lewis won his fourth gold at the 1984 Summer Games anchoring the U.S. 4 × 100-meter relay team to a world record. AUGUST 5, 1932 The Coliseum was briefly known as Olympic Stadium, when it was…

THE LEGEND of Shohei Ohtani grows with every stop of his unprecedented two-way tour, but so does the pathos. This is what New York can do. The footlights of its stage are so bright as to expose and exaggerate truth. Not even Ohtani, in all his greatness—and even in partnership with Mike Trout—might be able to save the Angels from their usual appointment with mediocrity. Two nights at Yankee Stadium in April exposed the sweet and sour of what might be Ohtani’s last season in California. A 5–2 win in which Ohtani homered was followed by a 3–2 loss in which Aaron Judge robbed him of a homer in a plot twist that looked like something ripped off from Guardians of the Galaxy, the 2022 MVP winning a battle of superpowers…

TEN PITCHERS have won the Cy Young and MVP awards in the same season, and all of them took the latter trophy for their work on the hill. (The best offensive season by any of the double dippers came from Don Newcombe, who had 16 RBIs and a 0.9 oWAR for the Dodgers in 1956, when he also won 27 games.) After the first month of the season, Ohtani was almost an even money favorite to win the AL MVP. He was +110; no one else was better than +700. The Cy Young race is tighter: He and Gerrit Cole were co-favorites at +400. For up-to-the-minute odds, visit SISportsbook.com…

The deadline to file a claim in the bankruptcy is July 7, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. (prevailing Eastern Time). The deadline to object to Endo’s sale is July 7, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. (prevailing Eastern Time). WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? On August 16, 2022, Endo International plc and certain of its affiliates filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Certain Endo affiliates manufactured and/or sold, among other things, branded opioid medications (including but not limited to OPANA® (oxymorphone hydrochloride), OPANA® ER (oxymorphone hydrochloride extended release), and PERCOCET® (oxycodone and acetaminophen tablets)), generic opioid medications, generic ranitidine medications, and transvaginal mesh. This notice is intended to inform you of your rights in this bankruptcy regarding the bar date and proof of claim…

AFTER LEADING UConn to its fifth men’s national championship April 3 with 16 points, Huskies sophomore marksman Jordan Hawkins delivered the most memorable quote of March Madness: “The cookout gonna be lit.” He was referring to a family barbecue to celebrate not only his title but also the one captured by his cousin, LSU forward Angel Reese, the night earlier. Cookouts are a big thing in their extended family. When the cousins were growing up in Maryland, they and a couple hundred of their relatives would meet at a park in Gaithersburg. (Asked how many people were usually there, Hawkins says, “A lot.” When pressed for a more exact number, he says, “A lot.”) There’d be burgers and dogs on the grill and plenty of pickup basketball. “Everybody plays basketball in…

YOU KNOW the feeling: a faint itch in the back of your throat, a distracting dryness on your tongue, a sudden urge to guzzle down a glass of water. Thirst is real, but the sensation we’ve long used to self-assess our levels of hydration isn’t a reliable indicator of our body’s need for fluids, says Jessica Isaacs, the team sports dietitian for the Clippers. “When we get that feeling, it’s like the body is sending a signal to our brain to say, Hey, things aren’t right here; our fluid balance is off. But you’re usually already dehydrated by that point,” she says. Despite the abundance of reusable water bottles, electrolyte-boosted beverages and water-enhancing supplement packets, Isaacs says that most athletes are under-hydrated on a regular basis, usually due to busy schedules…