Zack Greinke on the cover of Sports Illustrated on this day 17 years ago. Greinke won the 2009 AL Cy Young in a landslide with a 2.16 ERA and a 16-8 record for the last-place Royals. The New York Times called his win “a watershed moment in baseball’s statistical revolution,” the first time voters seemed to ignore pitcher wins as a meaningful statistic. Felix Hernandez, Justin Verlander, and CC Sabathia each had 19 wins that year, but received just three of the 28 first-place votes among them.
Swipe to see the late Dikembe Mutumbo’s final moment as an NBA player, Derrick Rose rise to block a Rajon Rondo floater, Kelly Slater riding a wave, and a bonus ad featuring David Lee wooing a woman with the seductive scents of Right Guard Xtreme Clear Power Gel Fast Break.
