William Oscar Johnson

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From the moment senior writer Steve Rushin stepped off a plane and onto a Swiss tarmac three weeks ago en route to Albertville, looked around the airport and asked, "Is that the Geneva Convention center?" covering...

The U.S. could make billions by legalizing—and taxing—sports gambling

Delightful Del MarWhat a marvelous piece of writing and spectacular opening words by William Nack about Del Mar Racetrack (A Little Bit of Heaven, July 15)—lyrical and evocative of the joie de vivre that Del Mar...

In Soweto, south africa, a vast black settlement outside Johannesburg, SI senior writer William Oscar Johnson last week came upon an elemental sports scene. A dozen children, eight to 10 years of age, were playing...