Talk:Sports Illustrated

message: Can anyone tell me when was the first time Tyra Banks was in sports illustrated?
The first time that Tyra Banks was in Sports Illustrated was in 1993. She was on the cover for the first time in 1996. I believe that she was the first African American on the cover of the SI Swimsuit Issue. Maple Leaf 14:35, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tyra Banks 

message: "The Dreaded SI Cover Jinx" has become as much an institution, however imaginary it might be, as the Swimsuit Issue.  If the Swimsuit Issue (which, I just realized, also has the initials SI) has its own separate page (and why not?) then the DSICJ should as well.  That way, as many examples of it as can be thought of can be posted without making the original SI page too long.
:I agree that it could be split out into a separate article, another jinx was added to the list today. It could have separate sections with individual deaths and team losses. The article would need to point out that during weekly coverage of sports, it is likely that one or more teams may suffer losses and bad things may happen. A careful study would show that an appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated is actually a blessing and reward, not a curse and a jinx. And you need to be essentially good and lucky to appear there in the first place. For example, UCLA is noted as having 105 appearances. Bill Walton appeared 5 times and John Wooden once during UCLA's 88 game basketball winning streak. Group29 13:59, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate Article? 

message: It seems that their sports photography isnt emphasized enough in this article.  I think a subhead called "photography" or "sports photography" should be added, with the photography info already in the article moved to it, and of course expounded upon.  Today they are the leaders in sports photography, setting up two to four DOZEN remote cameras at events like the NCAA final four.  Keep in mind I'm a sports photography enthusiast myself and might be biased, hense why I wanna discuss this before doing it.  Of course, this would be a good place in the article for some of their more famous photos.  I am new to Wiki, I wonder if putting a famous SI photograph in the article would be against the copyright policy? Dtemp 18:33, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sports photography 

message: i think th i looks too much like an l but thats ust my opinion.i think we shouldmove it so we can tell its an iI will marry gollum one day 23:10, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: the title of the page

message: Not that I think SI is above criticism, but this:
*SI has been criticised for not putting Baseball on the cover enough, even during the World Series and playoffs. It was even once revealed to WFAN broadcaster Chris Russo that they cant stand baseball.
is a combination of weasel words and unsourced statements (not to mention appearing to be original research).  If anyone can justify this with documentation, please feel free to put back in.  Until then, it doesn't belong in the article.  --Chancemichaels 15:56, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting "Criticism" 

message: I have attempted to refine the yearly Swimsuit Issue templates and put them up for discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2009_February_10#User:TonyTheTiger/sandbox/SISwimsuit.  Please come comment.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM)  05:59, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swimsuit Issue templates at [[WP:DRV]] 

message: See discussions on Swimsuit Issue templates at Talk:Sports_Illustrated_Swimsuit_Issue#End_the_sexism_now_-_Swimsuit_Issue.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM)  20:48, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Swimsuit Issue]] templates 

message: Anyone have an appropriate mission statement for Sports Illustrate magazine?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.30.126.62 (talk) 06:08, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mission Statement 

message: If anyone is familiar with older circa 1970s (or earlier) SI covers there's a 100-statue (Molecule Man (sculpture)) of two American basketball players on the Spree River, Berlin, that are based on an SI cover. See full story here:
*Molecule man
I quickly skimmed the 1970-78 issues, but I couldn't find the matching cover? --Libb Thims (talk) 08:23, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: 100-foot sculpture of two basketball players?

message: As per WP:TRIVIA, is the "Innovations" section a good fit? It seems like this could easily be summed up in paragraph form, but does potentially fit the scope of a "allowed" list, having a narrow scope, as per WP:TRIVIA. j.reed (talk) 22:07, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Innovations 

message: The "Most covers by athlete, 1954-2011" table under the "Cover History" section seems to be broken. "Tiger Woods" and "24" seem to be out of place. As I am not very good with tables, could someone fix this? Thanks, David1217 (talk) 23:11, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken Table 

message: Pretty sure this is vandalism, but am bringing it here for verification: "Nominations for the Sportsman of the Century became contentious as the magazine moved into the 21C. They again asked readers for nominations but included "local sports legends". The December 2011 issue became their biggest selling in many countries with some notable nominations ranging from running legend, Johnny "tonsils" McLoughlin from the Dead Mans Cove Runners and Chris "Chicken Wing" Judd from the Carlton Football Club, Melbourne. The magazine sold out across the English speaking world and in Maldovia and Equatorial Guinea was restricted to subscribers only." --Khajidha (talk) 19:48, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sportsman of the Century 

message: This sentence is at the end of the "Regular segments" section:
"Nevertheless, Sports Illustrated remains the predominant sports publication in print journalism with a consistent weekly circulation topping 8 million per issue.[13]"
Is this number correct? Other sections of this article (plus the source [13] cited) refer to the magazine's circulation as between 3 and 3.5 million weekly. 
Bunkyray5 (talk) 03:04, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question re: circulation statement 

message: The article has a huge problem related to magazine's staff. Actually two:
*The staff list is unreferenced, which presents troubles for verification; E.g., today an IP added a name. was it a joke or for real. Anyway, I verified and added a ref.
*The staff changes in time. Journal's website may keep track of its current staff, but I am not at all sure they keep it in sync with wikipedia. Therefore IMO this should be done as follows:
**There should be an ext link to the current staff at the SI website
**There should be a section "Staff" (not only "Writers" and "Photographers"). For major managerial positions the names must be supplied with time period (we must respect not only current boss, but past ones as well). All names must be supplied with references, just like it is done in List of Sports Illustrated writers.
-M.Altenmann >t 00:14, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Staff unireferenced 

message: I'd like to see discussion in the article about regional covers. These is worth a sentence or two.  Are regional covers a regular occurrence?  If so, then how are cover statistics compiled?  If different covers run in various regions, is each of those regional covers counted as a "cover" or is some region selected as the benchmark and regarded as the only "cover" for that date?  For example, the March 2, 2015 issue apparently featured Giancarolo Stanton of the Miami Marlins (Joanne Gair bodypainting, photo by Walter Iooss, Jr.) in at least one region, but the main cover photo in the western U.S. was of Gonzaga basketball's Kyle Wiltjer.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jab73 (talk • contribs) 09:25, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional Covers? 

message: On these revisions here one two three four five six on edit five my summary "(Undid revision 899308145 by Ridwan97 (talk) ~ left edit on ~ User talk:Ridwan97 talk page #82 ~edit with out a summary on a consistent basis ` ~ also edit warring ~ against WP policies)" ~ User talk:Ridwan97#edit with out a summary on a consistent basis ` ~ also edit warring ~ against WP policies ~~ ~~ user:Ridwan97 replaced the wiki links in the lead again ~ I can not remove those wiki links in the lead again  ~ any suggestions ~  thanks Mitchellhobbs (talk) 14:12, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  ~ Edit warring in the lead ~  

message: Wikipedia forgot the Dutch Sym-Info magazine of the late 80's and 90's. Again, it seems that culture and 'sport' are battling each other, with sport being more popular and happy to completely erase any memory of that thing called 'culture', please include Sym-Info magazine on this page, make it a portal to both entries. https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0927-8737# Willebrord Elsing RIP https://www.iopages.nl/nieuws/id/515/willebrord-elsing-overleden https://www.progwereld.org/progvizier/10-willebrord-elsing-over-si-music-hoe-het-begon-en-waar-het-mis-ging/
Basvossen (talk) 00:05, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sym-Info magazine