Mia Hamm on the cover of SI. "The Reluctant Superstar" reads the cover, leading to an article titled "The Secret Life of Mia Hamm." Not free on line -- worth buying this issue to read about her.

"She's not built for celebrity. She can't play the game--any game--lightly, can't make breezy chitchat with strangers while all that's grinding inside her; she can't fake it. She's too busy trying to decide what's the right thing to do, too caught in her own crossfire, too wary of what lurks just below it. When a girl rises in a roomful of eight-to 14-year-olds in Sydney and asks Mia what her main goal in life is, she replies, "Not to embarrass myself." She's kidding. Sort of. Maybe."

I love Mia. But there is something about her -- she always seems a little sad. Probably been a rough week for her. But she's on the cover of SI, dammit. That's not too bad.