New on Sports Illustrated: Goat vs. G.O.A.T.: The History Behind Sports's Antithetical Animal Analogy

In sports, being called the goat used to only be a bad thing—just ask Fred Merkle or Bill Buckner. But nowadays, add some capitalization and punctuation, and it's perhaps the greatest compliment possible.

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