An SI Teasure Chest

Sports Illustrated's online Vault launched on Thursday, and there is an unbelievable amount of historical/nostalgic/poetic information there.

Hurry up. Go.

For those of us in our 20s or early 30s, Sports Illustrated was probably that magazine ours Dads swore by, the one publication that kept its words heavy and its covers frameable.

So anyway, all you get from SI's vault is this:

• 150,000 stories.

• 2,800 covers.

• 500,000 photographs.

And not like it matters after all that, but here are our two favorite all-time stories (off the top of our heads) that we remember from SI.

Day of Glory for a Golden Oldie -- Rick Reilly

Home Sweet Homer -- Steve Rushin

Thanks For The Bus Ride, Sports Illustrated!

Usually the Letters section of SI wouldn't garner this type of response, but this is just too funny to pass up.

In response to this SI story a few weeks ago about abusive college basketball fans, there's this letter in the March 24 edition, under the subhead "Abusive Fans":

"I was shocked to see, in a photo of the Oregon student section, my son partaking in the harassment of UCLA's Kevin Love. When he came home the following weekend, his car was taken away and he headed back to school on a bus. I am embarrassed and wish to apologize to Kevin and his family." -- Armando Navarro, Clackamas, Ore.

Below is the concerned photo that ran in SI (sorry for the bad scan; the amateur Photoshopping is ours). On a limb, we're guessing the now car-less Duck fan is the guy with both birds flipped.


So you flick off Kevin Love at a heated PAC-10 game. Someone takes a photo of it that gets published in one of the most popular magazines ever. Your parents see said photo. They take away your car and send you back to school on a bus. Then they write to said magazine about their punishment. And you end up here ... We're sorry.

Is it wrong of us just to feel a little sorry for this guy?