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50 Most Powerful People In Sports
A photo of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is seen on a dartboard inside the Parkview Tavern in New Orleans, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. New Orleans is celebrating the return of New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton after a season's NFL banishment as a result of the Bountygate scandal. But the good feeling does not extend to Goodell, who suspended Payton and other key players and coaches last year in the alleged pay-for-pain scheme. He is being ridiculed here with a vehemence usually reserved for the city's multitude of scandal-scarred politicians. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A photo of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is seen on a dartboard inside the Parkview Tavern in New Orleans, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. New Orleans is celebrating the return of New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton after a season's NFL banishment as a result of the Bountygate scandal. But the good feeling does not extend to Goodell, who suspended Payton and other key players and coaches last year in the alleged pay-for-pain scheme. He is being ridiculed here with a vehemence usually reserved for the city's multitude of scandal-scarred politicians. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

SI ranked (then shuffled, started over and reranked) the 50 most powerful people in sports using criteria explained here. Don't like our list? Try us again in a year when, inevitably, today's leaders will be underperforming or under assault. For now your leader ...

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