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Dreams Of Sports Illustrated Still Dance In My Head

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Dreams Of Sports Illustrated Still Dance In My Head

I remember, growing up, having the covers of Sports Illustrated on the wall.

Growing up outside of the county, Sports Illustrated for me was a vital link back home, to America.  It allowed me, a stranger in a country not my own, to stay connected to the sports I otherwise would have lost contact with.

Back then, I pored over the weeks-old issues, reading accounts of games that were long in the past.

I’d read pieces by Frank Deford and Rick Reilly – my only link to an active sports culture back home.  (That and Armed Forces Radio on the short-wave made me feel American.)

They kept me engaged, connected, in a world where American football was just that – American – and sports in general had a different emphasis.

Those days feel very far away, coming up into this Christmas season – an era away.

And my boyhood dreams of appearing one day in Sports Illustrated, too, still seem very far away – and different.
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