Sports_Illustrated

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated Dohrmann, Michael Farber, John Garrity, Damon Hack, Jon Heyman, Richard Hoffer, Lee Jenkins, Peter King, Tim Layden, Jack McCallum, J. Austin Murphy, Dan Patrick, S.L. Price, Selena Roberts, Alan Shipnuck, Gary Smith, Phil Taylor, Ian Thomsen, Jim Trotter, Gary Van Sickle, Tom Verducci, Grant Wahl, L. Jon Wertheim, Alexander Wolff, Paul Zimmerman Associate Editors: M.J. Day (Swimsuit); Luis Fernando Llosa (SI Latino); Gene Menez, David Sabino (Statistics); Bill Syken Staff Writers: Lars Anderson, Mark Beech, Brian Cazeneuve, Albert Chen, Seth Davis, Chris Mannix Deputy Chief of Reporters: Lawrence Mondi Writer-Reporters: David Epstein, Farrell Evans, Andrew Lawrence, Rick Lipsey, Julia Morrill, Elizabeth Newman, Ben Reiter, Melissa Segura Reporters: Connie Aitcheson, Lisa Altobelli, Kelvin C. Bias, Adam Duerson, Sarah Kwak, Joe Lemire, Elizabeth McGarr, Rebecca Sun, Pablo S. Torre Sports magazine Weekly The first issue of Sports Illustrated, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Mathews at bat and New York Giants catcher Wes Westrum in Milwaukee County Stadium. Categories Managing Editor Staff writers Terry McDonell Frequency Circulation 3,000,000 per week (within the U.S.) Staff Deputy Managing Editor: David Bauer August 16, 1954 First issue Executive Editors: Michael Bevans, Time Inc. (Time Warner) Company Charlie Leerhsen Assistant Managing Editors: Neil Country USA Cohen (SI Presents); James P. Herre (Golf Plus); Hank Hersch, Craig Neff New York, New York Based in Creative Director: Steven Hoffman Director of Photography: Steve Fine Language English Managing Editor, SI.com: Paul Fichtenbaum sportsillustrated.cnn.com Website Senior Editor, Chief of Reporters: 0038-822X ISSN Richard Demak Senior Editors: Mark Bechtel, Trisha Lucey Blackmar, Stephen Cannella, Sports Illustrated is an American sports Aimee Crawford, Dick Friedman, Mark magazine owned by media conglomerate Godich, Jim Gorant (Golf Plus); Time Warner. It has over 3 million subChristopher Hunt (Articles); Stefanie Kaufman (Operations); Gregory Kelly, scribers and is read by 23 million adults each Kostya P. Kennedy, Albert Lin, Mark week, including over 18 million men, 19% of Mravic, Richard O’Brien, Sebastián the adult males in the United States. It was Pérez-Ferreiro (SI Latino); Diane Smith the first magazine with circulation over one (Swimsuit); Christian Stone million to win the National Magazine Award Senior Contributing Writer: Frank for General Excellence twice. Deford Senior Writers: Kelli Anderson, Chris Its swimsuit issue, which has been pubBallard, Michael Bamberger, George lished since 1964, is now an annual 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia publishing event that generates its own television shows, videos and calendars. The magazine’s cover is the basis of a sports myth known as the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx. Sports Illustrated Innovations From its start, Sports Illustrated introduced a number of innovations that are generally taken for granted today: • Liberal use of color photos - though the six-week lead time initially meant they were unable to depict timely subject matter • Scouting reports - including a World Series Preview and New Year’s Day bowl game round-up that enhanced the viewing of games on television • In-depth sports reporting from writers like Robert Creamer, Tex Maule and Dan Jenkins. • Regular illustration features by artists like Robert Riger. • High school football Player of the Month awards. • Inserts of sports cards in the centre of the magazine. History Two other magazines named Sports Illustrated were started in the 1930s and 1940s, but they both quickly failed. Following these events, there was no large-base general sports magazine with a national following. It was then that TIME patriarch Henry Luce began considering whether his company should attempt to fill that gap. At the time, many believed sports was beneath the attention of serious journalism and didn’t think sports news could fill a weekly magazine, especially during the winter. A number of advisers to Luce, including Life Magazine’s Ernest Havemann, tried to kill the idea, but Luce, who was not a sports fan, decided the time was right.[1] After offering $200,000 in an unsuccessful bid to buy the name Sport for the new magazine, they acquired the rights to the name Sports Illustrated instead for just $10,000. The goal of the new magazine was to be "not a sports magazine, but the sports magazine." Many at Time-Life scoffed at Luce’s idea; in his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Luce and His Empire, W.A. Swanberg wrote that the company’s intellectuals dubbed the proposed magazine "Muscle," "Jockstrap," and "Sweat Socks." Launched on August 16, 1954, it was not profitable (and would not be so for 12 years)[2] and not particularly well run at first, but Luce’s timing was good. The popularity of spectator sports in the United States was about to explode, and that popularity came to be driven largely by three things: Economic prosperity, television, and Sports Illustrated. The early issues of the magazine seemed caught between two opposing views of its audience. Much of the subject matter was directed at upper class activities such as yachting, polo and safaris, but upscale wouldbe advertisers were unconvinced that sports fans were a significant part of their market.[3] Color printing The magazine’s photographers also made their mark with innovations like putting cameras in the goal at a hockey game and behind a glass backboard at a basketball game. In 1965, offset printing began to allow the color pages of the magazine to be printed overnight, not only producing crisper and brighter images, but also finally enabling the editors to merge the best color with the latest news. By 1967, the magazine was printing 200 pages of "fast color" a year; in 1983, SI became the first American full-color newsweekly. An intense rivalry developed between photographers, particularly Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer, to get a decisive cover shot that would be on news-stands and in mailboxes only a few days later.[4] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, during Gil Rogin’s term as Managing Editor, the feature stories of Frank Deford became the magazine’s anchor. "Bonus pieces" on Pete Rozelle, Bear Bryant, Howard Cosell and others became some of the most quoted sources about these figures, and Deford established a reputation as one of the best writers of the time.[5] Regular segments First Person: A feature that was added in the spring of 2007 features a question and answer session with a featured athlete accompanied by an unusual photo of the athlete 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia holding a hand mirror (the hand mirror concept in First Person donates the athlete as the center of attention). It’s also the only photo taking by the athlete himself. Who’s Hot, Who’s Not: A feature on who’s on a tear and who’s in a slump. Inside the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, College Football, College Basketball, NASCAR, Golf, Boxing, Horse Racing, Soccer and Tennis (sports vary from issue to issue) has the writers from each sport to address the latest news and rumors in their respective fields. Faces in the Crowd: honours talented amateur athletes and their accomplishments. The Point After: A back-page column featuring a rotation of SI writers as well as other contributors. Content varies from compelling stories to challenging opinion, focusing on both the world of sports and the role sports play in society. Creative freedom that the staff had enjoyed seemed to diminish. By the 1980s and 1990s, the magazine had become more profitable than ever, but many also believed it had become more predictable. Mark Mulvoy was the first top editor whose background contained nothing but sports; he had grown up as one of the magazine’s readers, but he had no interest in fiction, movies, hobbies or history. Mulvoy’s top writer Rick Reilly had also been raised on SI and followed in the footsteps of many of the great writers that he grew up admiring, but many felt that the magazine as a whole came to reflect Mulvoy’s complete lack of sophistication. Mulvoy also hired the current creative director Steven Hoffman. Critics said that it rarely broke (or even featured) stories on the major controversies in sports (drugs, violence, commercialism) any more, and that it focused on major sports and celebrities to the exclusion of other topics.[6] The proliferation of "commemorative issues" and crass subscription incentives seemed to some like an exchange of journalistic integrity for commercial opportunism. More importantly, perhaps, many feel that 24-hour-a-day cable sports television networks and sports news web sites have forever diminished the role a weekly publication can play in today’s world, and that it is unlikely any magazine will ever again achieve the level of prominence that SI once had.[7] Another example of a big change in direction for the periodical is in its capitalizing on Sports Illustrated alternative covers. The concept took off in the 2000s. There was an alternative issue in fall 2000 for the 2000 World Series. One issue featured Derek Jeter with the heading Subway Series. In January 2004, the controversy over USC and LSU’s share of the National Football Championship, resulted in SI creating one issue for the West Coast with USC as champions while the state of Louisiana had an alternative cover with LSU as National Champions. In 2006 alone, there have been three different weeks in which alternative covers have been featured. The August 21 issue featured the College Football Preview and had five alternative covers. The October 23 issue was the NBA Preview and featured three covers with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Carmelo Anthony. The College Basketball Preview was dated November 20 and had five alternative covers. Sportsman of the Year Since its inception in 1954, Sports Illustrated magazine has annually presented the Sportsman of the Year award to "the athlete or team whose performance that year most embodies the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement." Roger Bannister won the first ever Sportsman of the year award thanks to his record breaking time of 3:59.4 for a mile (the first ever time a mile had been run under four minutes). Michael Phelps is Sports Illustrated’s most recent Sportsman of the Year, for 2008. Phelps won 8 gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Tiger Woods is the only athlete to win the award twice as an individual. (Curt Schilling won in 2001 along with Randy Johnson and then won the award when he was a member of the 2004 Boston Red Sox). Cover history To find the number of times an athlete has appeared on the cover go to: http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/home/index.htm Most covers by athlete, 1954-2009 Most covers by team, 1954-May 2008 Most covers by sport, 1954-2009 Celebrities on the cover, 1954-2003 Fathers and sons who have been featured on the cover 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Athlete Michael Jordan Muhammad Ali Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Magic Johnson Jack Nicklaus Tiger Woods Team New York Yankees Los Angeles Lakers Dallas Cowboys Boston Red Sox Chicago Bulls Boston Celtics Los Angeles Dodgers Cincinnati Reds San Francisco 49ers Notre Dame Football Sport Pro Football-NFL Baseball-MLB Pro Basketball-NBA College Basketball Golf College Football Boxing Track and Field Hockey Tennis Celebrity Ed Sullivan Bob Hope Shirley MacLaine Steve McQueen Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson Big Bird Arnold Schwarzenegger Ice Cube Chris Rock Number of covers 49 38 22 22 22 28 Number of covers 66 64 46 44 44 39 38 38 34 33 Number of covers 550 628 325 181 155 202 134 99 100 78 Year 1959 1963 1964 1971 1977 1977 1987 1999 2000 Special notes On cover as golfer Sports Illustrated Owner of Cleveland Indians Wearing a football uniform Riding a motorcycle Promoting the film Semi-Tough On the cover with Mark Fidrych Caption on cover was Hot Stuff On cover with Shaquille O’Neal Wearing Los Angeles Dodgers hat 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Father Archie Manning Calvin Hill Bobby Hull Bill Walton Jack Nicklaus Phil Simms Dale Earnhardt Cal Ripken, Sr. Mark McGwire President SI cover date John F. Kennedy Gerald Ford Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Bill Clinton December 26, 1960 Son(s) Peyton & Eli Manning Grant Hill Brett Hull Luke Walton Gary Nicklaus Chris Simms Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Cal Ripken, Jr. & Billy Ripken his son Special notes Sports Illustrated First Lady Jackie Kennedy also on cover and Kennedy was President-Elect at the time of the cover. July 8, 1974 Cover came one month before President Richard Nixon announced he would resign from the Presidency. November 26, 1984 February 16, 1987 March 21, 1994 On cover with Georgetown Hoyas basketball coach John Thompson and Patrick Ewing On cover with America’s Cup champion Dennis Conner On cover about the Arkansas college basketball team Presidents who have been featured on the cover Tribute covers (In Memoriam) Writers • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Robert Creamer (1954-1974) Seth Davis (1995-present) Frank Deford David Epstein Michael Farber Ron Fimrite (former) Karl Taro Greenfeld (former) Ed Hinton (1995-2000) Richard Hoffer (special contributor) Dan Jenkins (former) Armen Keteyian (1982-1989) Peter King (1989-present) Sean Lahman (former) Tim Layden (1994-present) Jackie MacMullan (1995-2000) Chris Mannix Arash Markazi (2005-present) Tex Maule (1956-75) Jack McCallum Jack Olsen (former) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • John Papanek Dan Patrick (2007-present) S.L. Price Rick Reilly (1985-2007) Ben Reiter Selena Roberts Steve Rushin (1998-2007) Melissa Segura Michael Silver (1994-2007) Gary Smith (1982-present) Phil Taylor Pablo S. Torre Gary Van Sickle Tom Verducci (1993-present) L. Jon Wertheim Herbert Warren Wind (1954-1960) Steve Wulf Paul Zimmerman (1979-present) Ralph Wiley Photographers • • • • Rich Clarkson Mark Kauffman Neil Leifer Walter Iooss 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Athlete Len Bias Arthur Ashe Reggie Lewis Mickey Mantle Walter Payton SI cover date June 30, 1986 February 15, 1993 August 9, 1993 Special notes Sports Illustrated Died of a cocaine overdose just after being drafted by the Boston Celtics Tennis great and former US Open champion who died from AIDS Celtics player who died due to a heart defect August 21, Died after years of battling alcoholism 1995 November Died from rare liver disorder 8, 1999 Died in a crash on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 Boston Red Sox who died of cardiac arrest Baltimore Colts great who died from heart attack Fan killed as the result of being struck with a puck to the head while in the crowd at a Columbus Blue Jackets game Arizona Cardinals player who was killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan. Most of the issues appear to have the same cover except the say ’Canadian Edition’. These issues are numbered differently in the listing. A group of the Canadian issues have unique Canadian Athletes (hockey mostly) and all the Canadian issues may have some article different content. The advertising may also be Canadian centric. • • Launched in 1989 • This is their tribute and special edition issues that are sold both nationally or regionally as stand alone products. **Originally started with Super Bowl Tributes the product became a mainstay in 1993 with Alabama as the NCAA National Football Champions. Today multiple issues are released including regional releases of the NCAA, NBA, NFL, MLB champions along with special events or special people. Advertising deals are also done with Sports Illustrated Presents (Kelloggs). • • Launched on July 17, 1997 • Online version of the magazine and sports site for CNN.com • Sports Illustrated Women magazine (highest circulation 400,000) Dale February Earnhardt 26, 2001 Ted Williams Johnny Unitas Brittanie Cecil Pat Tillman • • • • • • July 15, 2002 October 23, 2002 April 1, 2002 May 3, 2004 Hy Peskin Robert Riger Herb Scharfman Tony Triolo John G. Zimmerman Bill Eppridge Spinoffs Sports Illustrated has helped launched a number of related publishing ventures, including: • Sports Illustrated KIDS magazine (circulation 950,000) • Launched in January 1989 • Won the "Distinguished Achievement for Excellence in Educational Publishing" award 11 times • Won the "Parents’ Choice Magazine Award" 7 times • Sports Illustrated Almanac annuals • Introduced in 1991 • Yearly compilation of sports news and statistics in book form • sports news web site • • Launched in 1992 and lasted 6 issues ** • • Was created and published in Canada with US content from 1993 - 1995. 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Launched in March 2000 • Ceased publication in December 2002 because of a weak advertising climate • Sports Illustrated on Campus magazine • Launched on September 4, 2003 • Dedicated to college athletics and the sports interests of college students. • Distributed free on 72 college campuses through a network of college newspapers. • Circulation of one million readers between the ages of 18 and 24. • Ceased publication in December 2005 because of a weak advertising climate Sports Illustrated [6] What’s wrong with Sports Illustrated? by Josh Levin - Slate Magazine [7] (MacCambridge 1997, pp. 8-9, 268-273, 354-358, 394-398, 402-405). References • MacCambridge, Michael (1997), The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine, Hyperion Press, ISBN 0-7868-6216-5. • Fleder, Rob (2005), Sports Illustrated 50: The Anniversary Book, Time Inc., ISBN 1-932273-49-2. • Regli, Philip (1998), The Collectors Guide to Sports Illustrated and Sports Publications, Beckett, ISBN 1-887432-49-3. See also • Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue • List of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover models • University of South Carolina steroid scandal External links • • • • • • • • • SI.com SI Vault: All the editions since 1954 Page of the magazine at SI.com Headline Sports - The Largest Selection of SI Back Issues from 1954-Current Sports Illustrated Subscription - Official Site Sports Illustrated for Kids SI Mobile Swimsuit SI On Campus [1] Notes [1] (MacCambridge 1997, pp. 17-25). [2] "Henry Luce and Time-Life’s America: A Vision of Empire." American Masters, 28 April 2004. [3] (MacCambridge 1997, pp. 6, 27, 42). [4] (MacCambridge 1997, pp. 108-111, 139-141, 149-151, 236). [5] (MacCambridge 1997, pp. 236-238). Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" Categories: Sports Illustrated, Time Warner subsidiaries, Publications established in 1954, Weekly magazines This page was last modified on 14 May 2009, at 01:15 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers 7