From its start, Sports Illustrated introduced a number of innovations that are generally taken for granted today:.
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 , 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 , the magazine was printing pages of "fast color" a year; in , 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.
In the late s and early s, during Gil Rogin's term as Managing Editor, the feature stories of Frank Deford became the magazine's anchor. Who's Hot, Who's Not: A feature on who's on a tear and who's in a slump. Faces in the Crowd: honors 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 s and s, 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 Chrisopher Hercik. 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. Just My Type which one athlete gets interviewed in each sports illustrated The proliferation of "commemorative issues" and subscription incentives seemed to some like an exchange of journalistic integrity for commercial opportunism.
More importantly, perhaps, many feel that 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. Nevertheless, Sports Illustrated remains the predominant sports publication in print journalism with a consistent weekly circulation topping 8 million per issue. Main article: Sportsman of the Year.
Since its inception in , 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. Drew Brees was the sportsman of the year for after leading the New Orleans Saints to their first ever Super Bowl win.
The following list contains the athletes with most covers. The magazine's cover is the basis of a sports myth known as the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx. To find the number of times an athlete has appeared on the cover go to:. Most covers by athlete, Most covers by team, May Most covers by sport, Celebrities on the cover, Fathers and sons who have been featured on the cover.
Presidents who have been featured on the cover. Tribute covers In Memoriam. Sports Illustrated has helped launched a number of related publishing ventures, including:. Pop Culture Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account?
All content for each issue will have a week window to close out and get to the printer instead of the weekly grind, the Yahoo! And as the Olympics wrap up, the cover could be baseball, tennis, golf or football-oriented.
The move reflects the dwindling print business as the digital age continues moving forward in full force. Newspapers around the country have cut their issues in half, trimmed down the size of pages, laid off staff or even gone out of business if they couldn't sell it.
Sports Illustrated , which has 2. Jack Eichel finally has a new home. Connor McDavid is really good at hockey. With the Rams, OBJ can be a star among stars instead of a cog in a machine. One initiative is on a mission to bring back such programs at historically Black colleges and universities. How Toronto is challenging opponents and exceeding expectations. By Brian Straus. By Chris Herring. By Conor Orr. Seattle U. Laguerre brought structure to the magazine and shifted its focus to the major sports, such as baseball and football, whose popularity was exploding in post-war America, thanks largely to the proliferation of television.
Within a few years, SI was profitable, and by the s it became a go-to source for American sports news, retaining its strong brand and reputation for sterling journalism well into the age of ESPN and digital media.
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