The Sports Illustrated Olympic Daily is published in Salt Lake City and available in event venues and on newsstands for 16 straight days during the 2002 Winter Games. Here are some sights and scenes from today’s edition.

Michael (Eddie the Eagle) Edwards    SKI JUMPING

Olympic Highlights: Charmed fans worldwide in 1988, finishing last in the 70- and 90-meter events in Calgary

A legal Eagle? The lovable Edwards is a second-year law student and radio host in England. Bob Martin

Since 1988, when he became one of sports' most lovable losers, Edwards has been on one long celebrity swoop: He has, among other things, judged beauty contests, skied down the side of a London office building and been shot out of a cannon. So it only makes sense that Edwards's latest pursuit is ... law school? "Who wouldn't want to hire a legal Eagle?" asks the 38-year-old Edwards, who's in his second year at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. The Eagle became interested in law in 1990 when he sued the trustees of a trust fund he had established with his appearance fees, a nest egg valued at $1 million, for mismanagement and negligence. He settled for $500,000. "Oh, well," he says. "That's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."

Edwards has had no problem cashing in on his name. He makes about 30 appearances a year and hosts a Sunday-morning radio show for the BBC. He says that a movie based on his life is set to begin filming in March, with Mike Myers and Ewan McGregor being considered to play the Eagle. "I originally wanted Brad Pitt because he's the only one who's good-looking enough," says Edwards, who is a bachelor, "but if they can get Catherine Zeta-Jones to play my girlfriend, then I'll play the role myself."

—Gene Menez