So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Bill Nack knew the ending to "The Great Gatsby" by heart, not just that last line, but the entire final page. At a ...

William Nack, a Sports Illustrated journalist who became a lyrical, sharp-eyed chronicler of horse racing — notably the Triple Crown thoroughbred Secretariat — and who also wrote haunting profiles of ...

The latest SI 60 is "Pure Heart," William Nack's 1990 story on the life and death of Secretariat. The latest SI 60 selection is "A Name On The Wall," in which William Nack chronicles the life and ...

The horse-racing specialist spent more than two decades at Sports Illustrated and won seven Eclipse Awards. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor In 1973, Secretariat was the first horse to break the ...

In honor of Sports Illustrated's 60th annivesary, SI.com is republishing, in full, 60 of the best stories ever to run in the magazine. Today's selection was "O Unlucky Man," a brilliant profile of ...

PARIS, Ky. — Rodeo, a bearded groom in a camouflage jacket, ambles between two rows of gray headstones in the horse cemetery at Claiborne Farm. Moss grows on a few; snow coats others. Buried beneath ...

William Nack, author of the best-selling book Secretariat—The Making of a Champion, and Otto Thorwarth, who portrayed jockey Ron Turcotte in the Disney film Secretariat, will be among headliners for ...

William "Bill" Nack, a renowned sports journalist and author, died April 13 at his home in Washington, D.C. after a lengthy illness, according to Secretariat.com. Castleton Lyons has announced that ...