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I am trying to locate the original sports illustrated posters. Mine were destroyed in a move many years ago. My favorite was the Lance Alworth. Would appreciate any information you can give me.
To whom it may concern,
I have been a faithful customer for over 35 years. I have bit my tongue in the past. I will no longer be silent about the downward trend of acceptance of support for the gay and lesbian articles that try make some mislabled people actual reading material. The next issue that promotes such an immoral perspective will be my last.
I have a copy of the first ever edition of Sports Illustrated. It was passed down to me from my father. This week is the 64th anniversary of this magazine. It's in very good shape. My copy has all the original baseball cards inside-- still intact, connected, and in pristine condition. I want to know if SI has a copy of the same, or might they be interested in mine. This mechanism is the only way I have to ask these questions.
24 February 2018
SI Corporate Officers-
I subscribed again just in time for baseball season, and the second issue to arrive is the notorious swimsuit edition. Really, guys? Have you learned nothing about what feeds sexual harassment and assault after all this? It's making persons -- usually women -- into sex objects, robbing them of the respect that each are owed as individuals. No rocket science there, and certainly no sports in this issue.
Your objective here is plenty clear -- illustrating women as mere objects of desire to sell magazines. On the pages where swimsuits are visible they clearly aren't for swimming, just props to serve the cause of titillation. The scant value you place on the full personhood of those who wear them shows through, along with just about everything else.
Please learn that your bare merchandising has an impact on your readers/gawkers, especially young men and boys. Many of them will carry your objectification into their relationships and their behavior. It will be at work every day in our workplaces and our social lives. Women will suffer its results more than men, but we will all be lessened by it.
In the following issue you feature Aly Raisman, one brave survivor of one especially awful predator. Through the words on her skin you purport some awareness of what she and others have been through. But soft or hard, porn feeds predation. Your swimsuit issue clearly illustrates SI as part of the problem, not of the solution.
Get a clue. Until you do, count me out and cancel my sub.
My husband has been receiving Sports Illustrated for a few months now and we can't understand why. He never asked for a subscription and in fact he has never even looked inside since he neither understand sports or watches it. Is it possible for you to do research on how he received this subscription? You can't be too careful now a days with so much crime going all his friends know he isn't interested in sports this would be a strange joke. I have the information if you need it from the cover of the magazine if you need it. Please help us find out who signed him up. Thank you
I have been a photographer for 40+ years and recently photographed a model who could be a swimsuit model for SI ( I know that you get tons of these messages). I'd like to send some images of her to M J but am not sure of the address to send to. Is it the Avenue of Americas address? Jim Schwarz
Mr Anup Swamy
I've been a loyal SI subscriber for 35 years, and have purchased gift subscriptions for my four sons-in-law, as well. I have received multiple e-mails and postal "reminders" that my subscription is about to expire and touting special offers to renew.
Thanks but no thanks. I've had it with your gradual (but accelerating) movement to be more of a social/political commentary rag than a straightforward carrier of all things sport. The cover featuring Bruce "I Wanna Be Noticed" Jenner was the turning point. If I want social commentary, especially "Progressive" commentary, I'll just read my daily copy of the Washington Post or turn on CNN/MSNBC/etc. I don't need to have a supposed "sports" magazine try to feed me this stuff.
So goodbye my beloved SI.....may the Millenials adore you.
sports illustrated customer service is horrible. I have been trying for 5 months to get a missing issue with no result. I have called the 800 number, emailed x2, mailed a letter - all got nice little postcards (4 now) that say my request is being taken care of............ I guess loyally paying an outrageous amount for yearly subscriptions for 10+ years does not mean much to this company. I am done. I can read my sports news online from now on.
I am very disappointed in the SI.com update. This is perhaps the worst website makeover I've ever seen. I used to go there for all my sports and created a bookmark so i could go there every day. Since the update, I have taken it off my bookmarks. I go to the page and can't see anything - and when I finally get to a page, it is just a mess. The previous look worked - it was neat an you could find everything.
Unfortunately I now have to find other sites to get my sports info, which is too bad, because SI WAS the best.
I would like to express my objection to the swimsuit issues,as young misguided women become more sexually objectified. I am the grandmother of six lovely granddaughters, four that are teenagers and at ages that are very impressionable and it concerns me deeply how the media exploits young women.
It seems the only god they worship is the money god without a care of who this exhibition will hurt. What young women and girls do not realize is how men use these pictures to satisfy their own sexual needs and it happens with men who are twenty or sixty. I am grateful to my local
Supermarket and drugstore chain for not carrying these magazines anymore. I hope others will follow suit.
It is with great disappointment that I need to express my thoughts and feelings toward your 2014 cover of the swimsuit edition. It is pornographic and an insult to women to be shown in a fashion that is ungraceful and not modest. You took three beautiful women and defiled them. Shame on you all.
Thanks SI for your cover and article received today about Coach Frank Hall and the school violence incident in Ohio. Your point about "amnesia" is spot on and very troubling. I walked away from my coaching duties almost 25 years ago to address this issue of school violence in Charlotte NC. Needless to say, I will never suffer from this "amnesia," as I have lost more than a dozen students to violence in my 37 years of public education. Our initiative National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere (www.nationalsave.org) has been in existence for almost 25 years. We will continue to strive to make our schools safer and we appreciate Gary Smith and SI for bringing this issue to light and hopefully raising our collective consciousness.
Over the years SI has been a respected Sports resource for countless followers, and up and coming sport phenatics. For several issues going back about a year anyway cigeratte adds have been accepted by your company and published. This indirectly suggests that you support a discusting and unhealty habit that not only effects the smokers but non-smokers as well. This is a product that kills people, 1075 smokers a day and 137 second hand smokers also. The very fact that you accept adds and publish makes your company an accomplice. This type of product has no business in a magazine that should promote health and sportsmanship. Instead this smears what good will you have built over the years. As a responsible Corporate American Firm with a voice that can be heard you should be doing the opposite ad campaign. Kids read this magazine and this action supports very poor taste in building a respectable healthy future for our youth. We no longer read your pub and hope you re examine your revenue possiblities.
I live in the Baltimore area and after the Ravens Superbowl win took a opportunity or order a years subscription of SI with a commemorative book and football as a gift for my son. On Feb 9 delivery was to be 1-3 weeks.He is still waiting for delivery. A phone call to SI 3/21, informed me that "it is not of stock" and would be delivered when available.
As the customer it would have been greatly appreciated to get a post card,e-mail, or some form of notification,letting me know the status of the order.
I have been a Sports Illustrated subscriber for many years. Unfortunately, I decided to cancel my subscription because I live in Australia and the magazines regularly arrived about 2 months after their publication date.
I called customer service and was told that the delay was because the magazines were shipped surface mail. I was also told to check with my post office, which I did. It wasnâ??t their problem.
Other publications I receive internationally include The Economist, The New Yorker and Yankee Magazine. All of these arrive within a week of their publication dates.
I really would like to continue receiving SI. Can anything be done to help?
as a subscriber to sports illustrated and a 59 year resident of Akron ohio i resent the reemark tweeted by ms stephanie wei calling Akron the arsehole of the world as such i will never buy or read a si maagazine ever again thanks for having bone head people cover an exciting event
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