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60 ANNIVERSARY

56 There and Back

The sports landscape has been vastly altered since SI's debut, but the game remains the same

By Steve Rushin

89 SI Regrets

From bad predictions to overused phrases to baffling cover choices, we've had a few (... but not too few to mention)

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44 David Blatt

The Cavaliers' coach is going from the Holy Land to LeBron Land

By Jack McCallum

DEPARTMENTS

4 SI Digital

6 Inbox

10 Leading Off

20 Editor's Letter

27 Scorecard

36 Faces in The Crowd

38 Just My Type

Dan Patrick: Michael Strahan on the QBs he'd flatten

102 Point After

Michael Rosenberg: Go Figure: One man knows SI by the numbers

SI has had many stars on its cover over the years. This week's celebrates the people who have made our previous 3,069 possible: our readers. Last month we asked our audience online and on Twitter to submit photos of themselves playing a sport or being a fan. Thousands of you responded, and the photos were used to create a mosaic reproduction of the image on our very first cover: Braves slugger Eddie Mathews on Aug. 11, 1954. Can't find yourself? Go to SI.com/SI60 for a larger image

ON THE COVER: MARK KAUFFMAN/SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (ORIGINAL PHOTO)

PHOTOMOSAIC® BY ROBERT SILVERS www.photomosaic.com

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PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED KAPLAN FOR SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

HEAVYWEIGHT READING Muhammad Ali takes a break from training in 1965 with the magazine that would put him on its cover 38 times.

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