Landing on the cover of Sports Illustrated is one of the best things to happen for an athletes career. continue reading...
Lance Armstrong is getting back on his bike and he’s riding after his 8th win at the Tour de France. continue reading...
Time Warner takes a page from the book of “give people what they want”
Enter SI Vault. If you are wondering what SI Vault is, as the name would imply, it’s 54 years of Sports Illustraded’s covers, images, stories and much more. If an image is worth a thousand words, what would 54 years’ worth of images be worth? continue reading...
Sports Illustrated looks at the 20 past Heisman Trophy races and identifies 10 hidden gems of the 2007 draft. continue reading...
Via Washington Post’s Slate.com:
An avid sports fan can now read Sports Illustrated without learning anything new. In 1997’s The Franchise, Michael MacCambridge’s history of SI, Bill Colson (the top editor from 1996 to 2002) admits that the magazine’s increasing focus on the major sports helped “contribut[e] to the narrowing of interest of the American sports fan.” Sports Illustrated had always, for better or worse, featured stories on chess, bullfighting, darts, and sailing. Even if you didn’t read all those stories on chess and sailing, SI’s implicit message still got through—that sports isn’t just the stuff you see on TV, that a great story is a great story no matter whether it’s about playing quarterback or handling snakes. continue reading...
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