SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Sports Illustrated is an

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

Sports Illustrated is an American sports media franchise owned by Time Inc. Its self titled magazine has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million people each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice

History The journal is published with the August 1954 Stuart Scheftel created Sports Illustrated with a target market for the sportsman Since 1954 edition of Sports Illustrated presents the prize for the best athlete of the year

Present time Editor, Time Inc. Sports Group Categories Frequency Publisher Total circulation First issue Company Country Based in Language Paul Fichtenbaum Sports magazine Weekly Brendan Ripp 3, 023, 197 August 16, 1954 Time Warner United States New York, USA English

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Sportsman of the Year Since its inception in 1954, Sports Illustrated magazine has annually presented the Sportsman of the Year

Sportsman of the year (2010 – 2014)

Sportsman of the Century In 1999, Sports Illustrated named Muhammad Ali, the Sportsman of the Century, at the Sports Illustrated 's 20 th Century Sports Awards in New York's Madison Square Garden

Cover history 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, 1954 -2012 Michael Jordan – 50, Muhammad Ali – 37, Tiger Woods - 24

Most covers by team, 1954 -May 2008 Los Angeles Lakers – 67, ST Louis Cardinals – 49, Dallas Cowboys – 48

Celebrities on the cover, 19542010 Arnold Schwarzenegger - 1987, Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale – 2010

Presidents who have been featured on the cover John F. Kennedy – 1960, Ronald Reagan – 1984, 1987, Bill Clinton - 1994

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