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Named 1997's NFL Rookie of the Year by The Football News, Pro Football Weekly and Sports Illustrated, Dunn was a member of the Atlanta Falcons team that won the 2004 NFC South championship. Originally selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round of the 1997 NFL Draft, Dunn is a two-time NFL All-Star selection. He joined NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and other NFL players on a four-day trip to visit troops in Germany in May 2004.
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You might remember, from a couple of years ago, when Sports Illustrated baseball guru Tom Verducci played for five days with the Toronto Blue Jays during spring training. It was a clever idea, and well-written, as was his piece this year about serving as an umpire. But, like an athlete who has been forced to retire from the game but just can't let it go, Verducci isn't done: He played for the Blue Jays in the Hall of Fame game on Monday. And you can't really argue that it's another big journalistic experiment; all he got out of it was a Web piece. more
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Nick McDonnell first-time author, Harvard freshman, and son of Sports Illustrated Editor, Terry McDonnell is apparently using his newly acquired literary caché to woo women. We'll admit that "Let me read to you from my best-selling novel," isn't a bad pickup line when used legitimately by an 18-year-old. We suspect... that "And my daddy knows the publisher!" is conveniently omitted.
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After offering $200,000 in an unsuccessful bid to buy the name Sport for the new magazine, they acquired the rights to the name Sports Illustrated instead for just $10,000. The goal of the new magazine was to be "not a sports magazine, but the sports magazine." Many at Time-Life scoffed at Luce's idea; in his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Luce and His Empire, W.A. Swanberg wrote that the company's intellectuals dubbed the proposed magazine "Muscle," "Jockstrap," and "Sweat Socks." Launched on August 16, 1954, it was not profitable and not particularly well run at first, but Luce's timing was good. The popularity of spectator sports in the United States was about to explode, and that popularity came to be driven largely by three things:
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Gurus from Entertainment Weekly, Star, Sports Illustrated, Automobile, Billboard, CNET and others will offer TiVo subscribers program recommendations based on popular television categories including sports, films, music, comedies, drama and more. As an added benefit, TiVo subscribers will be able to automatically record Guru Guide recommendations via the company's online scheduling feature.
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During the month of August, 2003, a Sports Illustrated article alleging wrongdoing by Alcor appeared on newsstands. The article alleged that a head had been separated from a body, "shaved, drilled with holes, accidentally cracked as many as 10 times...." In the article, and especially in the media coverage that followed, these allegations were presented as shocking news of mishandling and negligence at Alcor.
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