Cheryl Tiegs, a person who I hope Campy National Treasure Janice Dickinson™ threw the most perfect shade at when someone declared Tiegs the first supermodel in history one time, is not happy that the beauty standard is being fucked with. The three-time Sports Illustrated cover girl made it known that she thinks body…
A new Snickers ad is being praised for featuring a model in a bikini who has been so badly retouched she looks deformed. The catch? She’s on the back of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition, one of many magazines capable of doing sometimes bizarre things to images under the pretense of making mostly women “look…
Though Ashley Graham’s cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition has been heralded as groundbreaking/life-affirming/historic [insert any excited adjective of your choice here], she’s actually one of three covergirls; the others are MMA fighter Ronda Rousey and model Hailey Clauson.
Serena Williams was honored Tuesday night at Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year Ceremony in New York City. After a ridiculously successful year that included capturing the Australia Open, French Open and Wimbledon titles, its safe to say that Serena deserves the recognition—and certainly more than some damn…
“No other active U.S. athlete rules a sport the way Serena Williams rules hers, and few reflect our era better,” writes S.L. Price, in a cover story that ties together Williams’s arduous year on the court, her return to Indian Wells and her coalescing involvement with racial justice movements, as well as her online…
Amy Poehler came on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night for a special Women’s World Cup -themed reprisal of their SNL outrage outlet, Really!?!
It was arguably the biggest moment in the history of American women’s sports, and the single most memorable and reproduced image of the celebration. Brandi Chastain had just converted the penalty kick that cemented the 1999 Women’s World Cup for the United States over China. She then experienced a fit of irrational…
Yes, modeling is a real job—an actual profession that takes hard work and real skill. Yes, it's a problematic industry that often fosters sexism, racism, and body issues. But if we're going to punch it, let's punch at the industry itself, and not the models doing their jobs.
SWIMCITY, U.S.A.—The climate of SwimCity is humid subtropical, with temperatures hovering around an equatorial 78 degrees between the hours of 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. It is a small city, boasting about 60 full-time residents, though quadruple this number in tourists and drifters clog its thoroughfares at any given time,…
This month, Sports Illustrated will release their annual swimsuit issue, delighting dads across the world and reminding all of us that it's cold as hell outside. This year, the magazine's making a historical change, however. It's featuring plus-size model Ashley Graham in a string bikini on pages usually reserved for…
Sports Illustrated Kids has named baseball phenom Mo'Ne Davis as its "SportsKid of the Year 2014." The honor and accompanying cover story rounds out what I can confidently say has been the best year of the eight grader's life.
Mo'ne Davis, Sports Illustrated-anointed Little League star, unfortunately couldn't make it out of the third inning in her game last night. She remains better at baseball than 99.9 percent of Americans.
Baseball badass Mo'ne Davis will appear on the cover of this week's national Sports Illustrated. She's the first Little Leaguer to bag the honor.
FYI readers of InStyle, Time, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly and People: Time Inc. is officially being spun off from parent company Time Warner, leaving the publications' fates even more in flux. The new company is already $1.3 billion in debt and the editorial budget across all titles is being cut 25%, yet…
The magazine famous for its swimsuit issue will put a fully clothed woman on their cover this week: Sochi Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin. Three cheers for Shiffrin and a polite golf clap for SI.
If you have been on the Internet in the past few weeks, it's likely been brought to your attention that Barbie, a little hunk of plastic shaped like a woman with synthetic hair on it, appeared in Sports Illustrated. Many feminists see this unholy union as a perfect reification of the problems with both crumbling…
Yes, we saw Barbie on the cover of Sports Illustrated, but it was just a promotional ad. Obviously SI wants real live flesh-and-boob ladies on the cover of the 50th anniversary issue. Here they are: Nina Agdal, Lily Aldridge and Chrissy Teigen. And while traditionally, Sports Illustrated covers showcase breasts, this…
Barbie and Sports Illustrated are joining forces to tell a world of body conscious pricks to suck it, apparently, with a new magazine cover next week. Or, you know, it could just be a new creative way to make up for all of the Barbies Mattel didn’t sell over the Christmas shopping season.
At tonight's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful special on NBC, Tyra Banks gave a heartfelt speech, thanking Sports Illustrated for being "daring" and putting black girls on the cover of the magazine.
