December 11, 2017 Table Of Contents
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By Mitch Goldich
EDITORS' LETTER
By The Editors OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
INBOX
SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR
SI's 2017 Sportsperson of the Year: He Isn't on the Field, but J.J. Watt Is Still Lifting Houston Up
In the end he will have missed two-thirds of this season. The record books will show he did not record a single sack. His Texans will not win the Super Bowl—or even make the playoffs. And yet, 2017 will go down as the year he proved to be something more than just the greatest defensive player of his generation
By Tom Verducci
By Greg Bishop
Kaepernick's giving shouldn't get all the attention—these five other NFLers are a fair sampling of players putting their paychecks to good use
By Ben Baskin
By Greg Bishop
By S.L. Price
By ANDREW SHARP
POINT AFTER
By Greg Bishop
Departments
What if they awarded the most prestigious trophy in college football and nobody came—including a group of former winners disenchanted with the people who give it out?
By PAUL BEBAN
When Tennessee was about to hire a football coach, the fans weighed in—and got their way
By Jack Dickey
SI's Grant Wahl breaks down the World Cup field
Edited by JEREMY FUCHS