Nice pic Ramsey. Was this a portrait job you did for someone or is this your line of work?
Those pics you see in Sports Illustrated are not straight from the flash card, they're always post-processed, according to my mentor who worked for them in the late 80's early 90's.
I do some post processing (usually color saturation and contrast tweaking)on the good action shots that we print and display for our picture booth. There are usually 5 or 6 that we pick out week to week for display. This one above will be used as a 16x20 display when we go to that particular teams home field in 2 weeks.