He was heralded as `` Sportsman of the Year '' by Sports Illustrated, and last night was acclaimed in Rochester as the `` Professional Athlete of the Year '', a distinction that earned for him the $10,000 diamond-studded Hickok Belt.

As the world's top sportsman -- pro or amateur -- Sports Illustrated tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer ( Time cover, May 2 ), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.

In 2010, Sports Illustrated named Agassi the 7th greatest male player of all time.

* 1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.

On August 30, 2011, Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King, who correctly predicted the 2011 Super Bowl, made his predictions for the 2011 season and picked the Falcons to defeat the San Diego Chargers in the 2012 Super Bowl.

* One of only six Pittsburgh Pirates to ever be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

The Redskins and Dallas Cowboys enjoy what has been called by Sports Illustrated the top NFL rivalry of all time and " one of the greatest in sports.

He also had a monthly column in McCall's and a weekly column in Sports Illustrated.

* Sports Illustrated Book of Bridge

* 1970 Sports Illustrated article on Jack Kemp

* 1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.

American marathon runner Kenny Moore, who wrote about the incident for Sports Illustrated, quoted Dutch distance runner Jos Hermens as saying, “ You give a party, and someone is killed at the party, you don't continue the party.

In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.

However, several former players interviewed by Sports Illustrated said that while payments for good hits and sacks were indeed considered part of the game, bounties for intentionally injuring opponents violated an unwritten code.

His appearance astonished the spectators, and Sports Illustrated wrote that " his celebrated stride was unmistakable to the crowd.

Debra posed in a bikini with her husband for a Sports Illustrated pictorial regarding athletes and their wives.

This appeared in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition for 2003.

He and McGwire shared Sports Illustrated magazine's 1998 " Sportsman of the Year " award.

Despite the lopsided loss in the Super Bowl, Beathard, who traded for or drafted the bulk of the Chargers roster, and who hired coach Ross, was named the NFL's smartest man by Sports Illustrated, and became the only general manager to lead three different teams to the Super Bowl ( Chargers, Dolphins, Redskins ).

In fact, Sports Illustrated had called the NFC Championship Game a game for losers, played by losers.

Cooper's leaping, celebratory spike of the football after scoring became the photo Sports Illustrated used for its post-game cover.

In his own story, published in Sports Illustrated in 1972, Alvin Thomas said:

He appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated on July 4, 1977, after being chosen to lead the 1977 America's Cup defense as skipper of the yacht Courageous.

In 1988, for the 80th anniversary of the song and the 100th anniversary of the poem Casey at the Bat, Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford constructed a fanciful story ( later expanded to book form as Casey on the Loose ) which posited Katie Casey as being the daughter of the famous slugger from the poem.

With the maturation of quarterback Doug Williams and future 4-time Pro Bowl tight end Jimmie Giles, the first 1000-yard rushing season from running back Ricky Bell, and a smothering, league-leading defense led by future NFL Hall of Famer Lee Roy Selmon, the Bucs kicked off the season with five consecutive victories, a stunning performance that landed them on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

In a graphic from 1968 that accompanied an article in Sports Illustrated magazine, Williams divided the strike zone into 77 baseballs, with each baseball containing his projected batting average for pitches thrown in that location.

On this occasion, U. S. Navy Commander John Collins pointed out that a recent article in Sports Illustrated magazine had declared that Eddy Merckx, the great Belgian cyclist, had the highest recorded " maximum oxygen uptake " of any athlete ever measured, so perhaps cyclists were more fit than anyone.

In 2000 Sports Illustrated magazine ranked Rudolph as number one in its listing of the top fifty greatest sports figures in twentieth-century Tennessee.

* August 16 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published in the United States.

The most widely read chess magazine in the world, Chess Life, featured an article in February 2012 about in the inauguration of Diving Chess into the 2011 Mind Sports Olympiad.

Morrow achieved great fame after winning his three gold medals, and was featured on the covers of Life magazine and SPORT magazine, as well as Sports Illustrated.

The name Crystal Palace ( the satirical magazine Punch usually gets the credit for coining the phrase ) was later used to denote this area of south London and the park that surrounds the site, home of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.

Sports Illustrated put Pernell Whitaker on the cover of its next magazine with a one word title, " Robbed!

In celebrating Sports Illustrated's 50th anniversary, the magazine named Billerica one of the nation's top fifty towns for sports and recreation and the " Sportstown for the Bay State.

It has also been rated one of the " 50 Best Outdoor Sports Towns " by Sports Afield magazine.

* Feature in Sports Illustrated in January 2011, http :// sportsillustrated. cnn. com / vault / article / magazine / MAG1181210 / index. htm

Also in 1971, McQueen was on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine riding a Husqvarna dirt bike.

* Bobby Morrow, three-time gold medal winner at 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and Sportsman of the Year in 1956 by Sports Illustrated magazine.

Alumni are established and leading journalists in such news organizations as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, People magazine, The Arizona Republic, The San Francisco Chronicle, Sports Illustrated, NBC News, USA Today and The Washington Post.

Time summarized and interpreted the week's news ; Life was a picture magazine of politics, culture and society that dominated American visual perceptions in the era before television ; Fortune explored in depth the economy and the world of business, introducing to executives avant-garde ideas such as Keynesianism ; and Sports Illustrated which probed beneath the surface of the game to explore the motivations and strategies of the teams and key players.

Luce launched the business magazine Fortune in February 1930 and created / founded the pictorial Life magazine in 1934, and launched House & Home in 1952 and Sports Illustrated in 1954.

A notable controversy in Canadian magazine publishing in recent years has been the existence of split run magazines, where a title published in another country, such as TIME or Sports Illustrated, is republished in Canada with a few pages of special Canadian content, in order to take advantage of Canadian advertising sales revenues.

* Sports Illustrated, an American sports magazine

Soccer A. M., a football magazine programme on Sky Sports, refers to the area where ' fans of the week ' sit as the ' Luther Blissett Stand '.

The DS came in third in the 1999 Car of the Century competition, recognizing the world's most influential auto designs, and was named the most beautiful car of all time by Classic & Sports Car magazine.