Aug
11
Magazine Reviews: Sports Illustrated
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Christina Pomoni asked:
With over 55 years experience in professional sports, Sports Illustrated (SI) is a weekly magazine that has been a mainstream success featuring colourful photos, insightful reporting and inserts of sports cards. Originally published in 1954, Sports Illustrated illustrates the power of professional sports covering thoroughly the NFL, Baseball, NHL, NBA, College Football, College Basketball, NASCAR, Golf, Boxing, Horse Racing, Soccer, and Tennis.
Achieving a circulation of 28 million copies per year, Sports Illustrated covers not only the conventional sports one would expect to see in its pages, but also the more unusual sports such as falconry or rock climbing. From it start, Sports Illustrated featured several innovations that gave the magazine prestige and made it a must-have for any true sports fan. Introducing the liberal use of color photos, SI featured colourful, action pages that make its readers feel like they are actually there when the event is taking place. Featuring also the scouting reports with the inclusion of World Series Preview and New Year’s Day bowl game round-up, SI increased the watching of games on TV. Also, Tex Maule, Robert Creamer and Dan Jenkins joined SI as regular columnists, while the magazine featured High school football Player of the Month awards. SI also features standard segments in each issue referred to as Departments. “Faces in the crowd” honours the accomplishments of talented amateur athletes, while “The Point after” covers anything in the world of sports as a back-page column.
Sports Illustrated makes everything possible. With its well-written articles keeps the interest high, while with frequent statistics, the latest scores and breaking stories, plus interviews and profiles of hot-shot athletes it remains the one-stop source for inclusive sports coverage.
Personally, apart from its excellent photography, I highly credit Sports Illustrated for its articles. Featuring great columnists and storytellers, the magazine uses academic vocabulary and features human interest stories that have often provided me with background information in history, geography, and science. For example, the story of John Akii-Bua, apart from the athlete’s bio has also given a lot of information about the history of Uganda. Or articles about NBA that make me understand the geography of the United States while following the East and the West Coast Division. Or articles about training that provide physiology tips.
Sports Illustrated remains on the top of the sports aficionados’ picks for a sports magazine. Every week, it gets me in the heart of sports, with stunning action photography and profound coverage. I would even dare to say that Sports Illustrated is brilliantly enlightening. And it’s not too much, even for a sports magazine.
RANDY
With over 55 years experience in professional sports, Sports Illustrated (SI) is a weekly magazine that has been a mainstream success featuring colourful photos, insightful reporting and inserts of sports cards. Originally published in 1954, Sports Illustrated illustrates the power of professional sports covering thoroughly the NFL, Baseball, NHL, NBA, College Football, College Basketball, NASCAR, Golf, Boxing, Horse Racing, Soccer, and Tennis.
Achieving a circulation of 28 million copies per year, Sports Illustrated covers not only the conventional sports one would expect to see in its pages, but also the more unusual sports such as falconry or rock climbing. From it start, Sports Illustrated featured several innovations that gave the magazine prestige and made it a must-have for any true sports fan. Introducing the liberal use of color photos, SI featured colourful, action pages that make its readers feel like they are actually there when the event is taking place. Featuring also the scouting reports with the inclusion of World Series Preview and New Year’s Day bowl game round-up, SI increased the watching of games on TV. Also, Tex Maule, Robert Creamer and Dan Jenkins joined SI as regular columnists, while the magazine featured High school football Player of the Month awards. SI also features standard segments in each issue referred to as Departments. “Faces in the crowd” honours the accomplishments of talented amateur athletes, while “The Point after” covers anything in the world of sports as a back-page column.
Sports Illustrated makes everything possible. With its well-written articles keeps the interest high, while with frequent statistics, the latest scores and breaking stories, plus interviews and profiles of hot-shot athletes it remains the one-stop source for inclusive sports coverage.
Personally, apart from its excellent photography, I highly credit Sports Illustrated for its articles. Featuring great columnists and storytellers, the magazine uses academic vocabulary and features human interest stories that have often provided me with background information in history, geography, and science. For example, the story of John Akii-Bua, apart from the athlete’s bio has also given a lot of information about the history of Uganda. Or articles about NBA that make me understand the geography of the United States while following the East and the West Coast Division. Or articles about training that provide physiology tips.
Sports Illustrated remains on the top of the sports aficionados’ picks for a sports magazine. Every week, it gets me in the heart of sports, with stunning action photography and profound coverage. I would even dare to say that Sports Illustrated is brilliantly enlightening. And it’s not too much, even for a sports magazine.
RANDY