Thank you all for coming to the power rankings this week. I’m going to kick off the column by first reiterating the news that you’ve all probably heard (via our podcast) or seen (via Twitter) that our wonderful colleague Jenny Vrentas is headed to The New York Times as a national sports investigative reporter. We’re all very happy for Jenny, who gave nearly a decade of her life to Sports Illustrated, helping us continue and, in many ways, expand on the magazine’s rich history and proud traditions.
We’ll get to a numerical list of the best teams in a second, but first I just wanted to list a small number of the many, many really cool stories my colleague wrote over the years.