He was heralded as `` Sportsman of the Year '' by Sports Illustrated, and last night was acclaimed in Rochester as the `` Professional Athlete of the Year '', a distinction that earned for him the $10,000 diamond-studded Hickok Belt.

As the world's top sportsman -- pro or amateur -- Sports Illustrated tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer ( Time cover, May 2 ), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.

In 2010, Sports Illustrated named Agassi the 7th greatest male player of all time.

* 1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.

On August 30, 2011, Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King, who correctly predicted the 2011 Super Bowl, made his predictions for the 2011 season and picked the Falcons to defeat the San Diego Chargers in the 2012 Super Bowl.

* One of only six Pittsburgh Pirates to ever be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

The Redskins and Dallas Cowboys enjoy what has been called by Sports Illustrated the top NFL rivalry of all time and " one of the greatest in sports.

He also had a monthly column in McCall's and a weekly column in Sports Illustrated.

* 1970 Sports Illustrated article on Jack Kemp

* 1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.

American marathon runner Kenny Moore, who wrote about the incident for Sports Illustrated, quoted Dutch distance runner Jos Hermens as saying, “ You give a party, and someone is killed at the party, you don't continue the party.

In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.

However, several former players interviewed by Sports Illustrated said that while payments for good hits and sacks were indeed considered part of the game, bounties for intentionally injuring opponents violated an unwritten code.

His appearance astonished the spectators, and Sports Illustrated wrote that " his celebrated stride was unmistakable to the crowd.

Debra posed in a bikini with her husband for a Sports Illustrated pictorial regarding athletes and their wives.

This appeared in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition for 2003.

He and McGwire shared Sports Illustrated magazine's 1998 " Sportsman of the Year " award.

Despite the lopsided loss in the Super Bowl, Beathard, who traded for or drafted the bulk of the Chargers roster, and who hired coach Ross, was named the NFL's smartest man by Sports Illustrated, and became the only general manager to lead three different teams to the Super Bowl ( Chargers, Dolphins, Redskins ).

In fact, Sports Illustrated had called the NFC Championship Game a game for losers, played by losers.

Cooper's leaping, celebratory spike of the football after scoring became the photo Sports Illustrated used for its post-game cover.

In his own story, published in Sports Illustrated in 1972, Alvin Thomas said:

He appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated on July 4, 1977, after being chosen to lead the 1977 America's Cup defense as skipper of the yacht Courageous.

In 1988, for the 80th anniversary of the song and the 100th anniversary of the poem Casey at the Bat, Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford constructed a fanciful story ( later expanded to book form as Casey on the Loose ) which posited Katie Casey as being the daughter of the famous slugger from the poem.

With the maturation of quarterback Doug Williams and future 4-time Pro Bowl tight end Jimmie Giles, the first 1000-yard rushing season from running back Ricky Bell, and a smothering, league-leading defense led by future NFL Hall of Famer Lee Roy Selmon, the Bucs kicked off the season with five consecutive victories, a stunning performance that landed them on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

The book was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.

* Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky Sports ( 1984 ISBN 0-553-15269-6 )

* 1985 My Book of Sports, Whose Hat is That, Back to Front

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* Denis Jenkinson, " Automobile Year Book Of Sports Car Racing " ( photographic history of sports car racing from the early 1950s to the 1970s )

The Book On Bookies: An Inside Look At A Successful Sports Gambling Operation.

* Pierce Egan's Book of Sports And Mirror of Life: Embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage ( 1836 )

He wrote for a diverse range of pulp magazines, including Baseball Stories, Big Book Football Western, Fighting Western, Football Stories, Lariat Stories, Ace Sports, SuperScience, Northwest Romances, Thrilling Western, and Ranch Romances for a number of publishing companies.

* Horrid Henry's Big Bad Book ( 2004 ): Stories comprise: Horrid Henry's New Teacher, Horrid Henry's Nits, Horrid Henry's School Trip, Horrid Henry's Sports Day, Horrid Henry's Homework, Horrid Henry's Swimming Lesson, Horrid Henry and The Demon Dinner Lady, Horrid Henry Reads A Book, Horrid Henry's School Project, Horrid Henry's Underpants.

The Guinness Book of Sports Records ( Guinness Media ).

* Guinness Sports Record Book ( 1977 – 1978 )

He then moved to Bury St Edmunds, where he lectured for ten years, the later Congregationalist Jeremiah Burroughs was another preacher in the town He retired when his bishop Matthew Wren insisted on the observance of certain ceremonial articles: Calamy refused to read out the Book of Sports in his church.

In the Tower Prynne wrote and published anonymous tracts against episcopacy and against the Book of Sports.

*" Biography: Pietre Metastasio ", The Every-day Book and Table Book ; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days, in Past and Present Times ; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac, Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature ; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communication, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion.

* How to fish taken from the Boy's Own Book of Outdoor Sports ( early 1900s )

The book, the first ever composed with the new Linotype method, was titled, The Tribune Book of Open-Air Sports.

It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1992.

James based the substance of his subsequent declaration on these points ; but his publication of the Book of Sports in the following year led to new disturbances.

His thousandth League game came on 22 December 1996, against Brighton & Hove Albion, which was screened live on Sky Sports and was preceded by the presentation from the Football League of a special edition of the Guinness Book of Records to Shilton.

: See: William Hill Sports Book of the Year

This was not before, though, the establishment, through sponsorship from William Hill, the bookmakers, of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

Similar rules were published in Boston in " The Book of Sports ," written by Robin Carver in 1834, except the Boston version called the game " Base " or " Goal ball.