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The Kansas City Royals kept Alex Poythress from being on the cover of Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated released its college basketball preview this week and …until the Kansas City Royals won the World Series and stole the spotlight.

The folks at SI posted the would-have-been covers on their website anyways for your viewing pleasure. Alex represented Kentucky, SI’s #3 team, while Marcus Paige represented #1 UNC and Perry Ellis #2 Kansas. Alex’s cover was the best by far. I mean, just look at Marcus Paige. He looks like someone just asked him for his Afro-American Studies homework:

To add insult to injury, this would have been Alex’s second-straight Sports Illustrated College Basketball preview cover:
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Stupid baseball.