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The growing body of scholarship on sport scandals focuses on how media cover these incidents, how scandalized parties disrupt expectations and repair their images, and the circumstances under which punishment and forgiveness are issued. This article uses Deadspin, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN's coverage of the 2013 Manti Te'o hoax to suggest that sport scandals also compose instruments through which media outlets fashion their brands, critique competitors, and compete for market share. It demonstrates how these outlets used the Te'o incident to negotiate their positions in the sport-media industry and, more broadly, how sport scandals and coverage of them can reshape that increasingly digital industry's established hierarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was intended to provide analysis of print-media portrayals of athletes in Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues from 1997 through 2009. Drawing on the theoretical framework from Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity (2005), the authors performed a content analysis of photographic images (N = 141) and associated captions in athlete-related content in Sports illustrated swimsuit issues. Two major issues emerged from the content analysis: gender differences and sexualized images in athlete content. Findings of this study indicated that Sports Illustrated alternates athleticism with sexuality by continuously placing athlete models in positions that are unrelated to sport. In addition, the female athletes were extremely sexualized. These findings support the concept of hegemonic masculinity at work in Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the views of "Washington Post," sports columnist Sally Jenkins on the issue of feminism. It cites Jenkins' conversation with legendary college football coach Pat Summit considering the latter's contribution to women's athletics. It focuses on Jenkins' success as a sports writer and her career with various journals including "Sports Illustrated."

We content analyzed more than 11 years of Sports Illustrated (SI) covers (2000–2011) to assess how often females were portrayed, the sports represented, and the manner of their portrayal. Despite females’ increased participation in sport since the enactment of Title IX and calls for greater media coverage of female athletes, women appeared on just 4.9 percent of covers. The percentage of covers did not change significantly over the span and were comparable to levels reported for the 1980s by other researchers. Indeed, women were depicted on a higher percentage of covers from 1954–1965 than from 2000–2011. Beyond the limited number of covers, women’s participation in sport was often minimized by sharing covers with male counterparts, featuring anonymous women not related directly to sports participation, sexually objectifying female athletes, and promoting women in more socially acceptable gender-neutral or feminine sports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Information about the symposium "Amateur Athletics, Professional IP: Sponsorship, Surveillance, and the London 2012 Olympics" hosted by the Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law on March 8, 2012 is presented. The symposium included a panel on surveillance at the Olympics which featured barrister Michael Drury and criminologist Pete Fussey, and a panel on brand protection at the Olympics which featured Michael McCann, legal analyst at the magazine "Sports Illustrated."

The article presents an interview with illustrator Marc Simont. He discusses his experiences as a child in France and the U.S., comments on his father's influence on his work as an illustrator, and shares his perceptions on his drawings in the book "How to Get to First Base: A Picture Book of Baseball," by Red Smith. He also mentions his work for the magazine "Sports Illustrated" and discusses how geometry relates to the game of baseball.

The article offers the author's insights on the two successful activities that she had used in the Reading Skills and College Writing course at Berkeley College in New York and New Jersey. She tells the article in the 2009 edition of the journal "Sports Illustrated," that focuses on the Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley, California, has been assigned to students to read, highlight, and underline unfamiliar words for a class discussion. Moreover, she mentions the Garlic Knot lessons wherein the students are obliged to dissect the recipe for garlic knots into two parts. Furthermore, she states that the integration of reading and writing for the students is a logistical challenge rather than an academic problem.

The article examines whether the race-related images portrayed on the cover of "Sports Illustrated" (SI) have changed over the years. It considers sport and sports media as the spectacular and powerful institutions that define, produce, replicate, and reflect societal ideals. It points out that the sport played by an athlete strongly influenced the images of the magazine's cover. However, it finds out that racial representation in sports had less influence on the prediction of the athletes' race.

This paper offers an investigation of the portrayal of depression in magazines whose audience is primarily North American males of young middle ages ranging between medians of 37 and 42.5. It is based on a content analysis of articles indexed under the topic of depression from 2000-2007 in Esquire, Men' s Health and Sports Illustrated magazines. Findings suggest that depression in men's magazines is encapsulated in stereotypical male discourses of success at work, ignorance of feelings, and reluctance to seek help. Violence is another, although less prevalent theme. Depression is described as largely as having biochemical and/or genetic cause. A few articles mention the possible effects of the socio-economic and gendered experiences of maleness or masculinity. The possible theoretical explanations of this portrayal are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on women who have limited coverage appearing in feature articles on sports magazines according to what was published by "Sports Illustrated." According to a study, only in sports such as tennis, figure skating and gymnastics where there are more females than males being featured. Results show that females were featured in 157 or 9.7 percent of the feature articles compared to 1,461 or 89.9 percent in males, while seven or 0.7 percent they shared it with males.

This descriptive study examined whether the coverage of African Americans in the feature articles in Sports Illustrated during the 1990s was representative of their participation levels. Nearly half of the articles featured European Americans; about one-third featured African Americans. More African Americans were featured in basketball, boxing, and track and field, while European Americans were featured more often in all other sports except ice hockey in which internationals predominate. The length of feature articles for African Americans was slightly longer than those for European Americans; there were more pictures in the articles about European Americans. That African Americans were not featured in articles proportionate to their participation levels in the most popular team sports could perpetuate societal perceptions of the hegemonic domination of European Americans in sports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a content analysis of the magazine covers of the "Sports Illustrated" periodical in the period 1954-2004 to determine the representation of white American and African American baseball, basketball, and football players. Analysis reveals that more than ninety percent of the athletes on the covers were white in the decade 1954-1964, at a time when the U.S. was segregated.

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the number of individuals pictured on the covers of Sports Illustrated during the 1990s was reflective of their levels of participation by sport, race/ethnicity, and sex. These descriptors of the individuals pictured on each cover between 1990 and 1999 were identified and analyzed African Americans were pictured on more covers and more often in the sports of basketball, boxing, and track and field than were European Americans. The highest number of females on the covers in any year was five, with females in tennis pictured the most overall. That the percentage of covers of African Americans and females was less than their participation numbers in sports reaffirmed that European American males continued to be preferentially treated by being pictured on the covers of Sports their participation numbers warranted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article advances on existing studies in agenda-building theory, examining how a prominent sports magazine can build an agenda for mainstream press coverage, which in turn assists in building policy agendas. When Ken Caminiti, a former Most Valuable Player in the National League, admitted to Sports Illustrated in June 2002 that he used anabolic steroids during his award-winning season, mainstream newspaper journalists reported the revelations heavily, with many calling for changes in policy and the introduction of drug testing. As discussed here, policy-makers apparently listened: approximately three months after the magazine expos´e appeared, baseball instituted a drug testing procedure. The study reveals how mainstream newspaper reports (n = 231) built on the Sports Illustrated investigation and how policy-makers reacted to a widespread condemnation of professional baseball, namely its apparent inability to police itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]