S.I.’s 1999 NFL Draft preview issue featuring quarterbacks Tim Couch and Akili Smith — both in Cleveland Browns jerseys. Couch went #1 overall to the expansion Browns, while Smith was selected by the Bengals with the third pick. They sandwiched Donovan McNabb, who was booed by Philly fans inside the Theater at MSG when the Eagles chose him second overall.

I haven’t fact-checked this, but I have to imagine Akili Smith is one of the only athletes to wear the jersey of a team he never played for the only time he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Earl “The Pearl” Monroe (with fellow “50 Greatest” player, teammate Walt “Clyde” Frazier looking on) on the April 16, 1973 cover of Sports Illustrated. The Knicks closed out Monroe’s former team, the Baltimore Bullets, in the opening round of the NBA playoffs on their way to the ‘73 title. It remains their most recent NBA championship.

MLB players will wear number 42 today on the 78th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. This August 1949 issue of SPORT Magazine marks his first of several appearances on the cover while an active player.

Because Sports Illustrated didn't find its footing covering pro sports until after Robinson retired, Jackie's S.I. cover debut came a quarter century after his death, and is less sought-after than his early TIME and SPORT issues.

An iconic shot of Tiger Woods teeing off on the 18th Sunday at Augusta.

With 125 total copies graded by CGC, this issue is the second-most frequently graded of Tiger’s covers, trailing only his first cover from October 28, 1996.