Hot Shots

Sports Illustrated's hotshots is an action-packed collection of the best pictures by the world's best sports photographers. In an era of interchangeable 10-second video highlights, SI's editors have looked at hundreds of thousands of frames, and culled from them to find the eye-popping images that have the enduring quality and sustained impact only a great photograph can deliver. These jaw-dropping photos-diving catches, bone-jarring tackles, fiery crashes, death-defying leaps-put you in the middle of the action. Hotshots also includes the words and pictures with which SI writers and photographers captured some of the most memorable moments in recent sports history, including Lance Armstrong's Drive for Five, Barry Bonds's 73rd home run and Pete Sampras' last hurrah at the U.S. Open. "There is something about the way photography distills achievement and defeat, and organizes it so starkly within the borders of a single picture," SI's Richard Hoffer once wrote. "That's photography's advantage: So much clutter cropped. So much tumult made quiet. So much movement rendered remarkable in its forced repose. All that constant and streaming imagery-all that confusion-resolved into sharp-edged clarity. One frame at a time."McDonell, Terry is the author of 'Hot Shots', published 2004 under ISBN 9781932273182 and ISBN 1932273182.