2009 Athletes

Too Alive to Die

Still, freak accidents took the lives of Jerome Brown of the Philadelphia Eagles and Eric Andolsek of the Detroit Lions

Rick Reilly | July 06, 1992

2009 SPORTSMAN of the YEAR Derek Jeter

It is not so much what he accomplished at 35—a fifth World Series ring capping a historic season, to be sure—as how the Yankees' shortstop arrived...

Tom Verducci | December 07, 2009

Round 1 to the Irish

Notre Dame upset Florida State in a nail-biter in South Bend that set up a possible rematch on New Year's Day

Austin Murphy | November 22, 1993