Patrick Ewing

Patrick Ewing continues his career as an assistant coach with the Houston Rockets. Sports Illustrated has helped launched a number of related publishing ventures, including:. Although he failed to win a NBA championship, he remains one of the best centers to ever play and perhaps the greatest player in Knicks history. While the list of "examples" of the jinx is extensive, an individual record 49 cover appearances by Michael Jordan and team record 61 covers by the New York Yankees have not hindered their success. On February 28, 2003 Patrick Ewing's jersey with number 33 was retired in a large ceremony at Madison Square Garden. Other notable cover coincidences include:. After a year with the Supersonics and another with the Orlando Magic, he finally announced his retirement on September 18, 2002. "The Dreaded SI Cover Jinx" -- was born, as some noted that bad things seemed to happen to people soon after they appeared on the magazine's cover.

In 2000, he finally left the Knicks, being traded to the Seattle Supersonics. When Major League Baseball player Eddie Mathews, pictured on the cover of Volume 1, Issue 1, suffered a hand injury a week later that forced him to miss seven games, the "Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx" -- a.k.a. This incident of the New York Knicks making it to the NBA Finals despite Patrick Ewing being injured is the prime evidence for a theory called the "Ewing Theory". Since its inception, Sports Illustrated has annually presented the "Sportsman of the Year" award. In spite of all his honors, Ewing never managed to lead the Knicks to a NBA championship, although he was a key contributor to the Knicks' run to the Eastern Conference championship in 1994 (the Knicks returned to the NBA Finals in 1999, but Ewing missed the latter part of their playoff run due to a hamstring injury). 8-9, 268-273, 354-358, 394-398, 402-405). In 1996, he was also given the honor of being named one the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. (MacCambridge, 1997, pp.

He was a member of the original Dream Team at the 1992 Olympics, winning a second gold medal. More importantly, perhaps, many feel that 24-hour-a-day cable sports television networks and sports news web sites have forever diminished the role a weekly publication can play in today's world, and that it is unlikely any magazine will ever again achieve the level of prominence that SI once had. Ewing was an eleven time NBA All-Star, was named to the All-NBA First Team once, to the All-NBA Second Team six times and to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team three times. The proliferation of "commemorative issues" and crass subscription incentives seemed to some like an exchange of journalistic integrity for commercial opportunism. Very soon, he became one of the premier centers of the league. Critics said that it rarely broke (or even featured) stories on the major controversies in sports (drugs, violence, commercialism) any more, and that it focused on major sports and celebrities to the exclusion of other topics. Although injuries marred his first year in the league, he was named NBA Rookie of the Year by averaging 20 points, 9 rebounds and 2 blocks per game. Mulvoy's top writer Rick Reilly had also been raised on SI and followed in the footsteps of many of the great writers that he grew up admiring, but many felt that the magazine as a whole came to reflect Mulvoy's complete lack of sophistication.

In 1985 he was selected first overall in the NBA Draft by the Knicks. Mark Mulvoy was the first top editor whose background contained nothing but sports; he had grown up as one of the magazine's readers, but he had no interest in fiction, movies, hobbies or history. Olympic team in 1984; he won a gold medal with that team. By the 1980s and 1990s, the magazine had become more profitable than ever, but many also believed it had become more predictable. citizen, making him eligible for membership on the U.S. After the death of Henry Luce in 1967, the creative freedom that the staff had enjoyed seemed to diminish. By the time he arrived at Georgetown, he had become a naturalized U.S. 236-238).

He played college basketball for Georgetown University, where he led the Hoyas to the NCAA championship game in 1982, 1984, and 1985, winning in 1984. (MacCambridge, 1997, pp. Ewing was born in Kingston, Jamaica; when he was 12 years old, he came to the United States with his family, who settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin. "Bonus pieces" on Pete Rozelle, Bear Bryant, Howard Cosell and others became some of the most quoted sources about these figures, and Deford established a reputation as one of the best writers of the time. He played most of his career with the New York Knicks as their starting center. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, during Gil Rogin's term as Managing Editor, the feature stories of Frank Deford became the magazine's anchor. Patrick Aloysius Ewing (born August 5, 1962) is a former NBA player. 108-111, 139-141, 149-151, 236).

(MacCambridge, 1997, pp. An intense rivalry developed between photographers, particularly Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer, to get a decisive cover shot that would be on newsstands and in mailboxes only a few days later. By 1967, the magazine was printing 200 pages of "fast color" a year; in 1983, SI became the first American full-color newsweekly. In 1965, offset printing began to allow the color pages of the magazine to be printed overnight, not only producing crisper and brighter images, but also finally enabling the editors to merge the best color with the latest news.

The magazine's photographers also made their mark with innovations like putting cameras in the goal at a hockey game and behind a glass backboard at a basketball game. 5-8, 160). (MacCambridge, 1997, pp. The steady creation of landmark stories (e.g., "The Black Athlete - A Shameful Story" by Jack Olsen and "Paper Lion" by George Plimpton) showed that sports fans could be readers, and a generation of sportswriters patterned their own writing after what they read in SI.

Many would say that the magazine legitimized sports -- and being a sports fan -- for a huge segment of the American population. Its writers developed their own characteristic style by daring to tell people what was important. Many of the staff had serious doubts that the English-born Frenchman could possibly know anything about American sports, but Laguerre won them over, and during his term as Managing Editor (1960 - 1974), SI became a model for other middle-class American magazines. senior European Correspondent André Laguerre to come to New York and help define the magazine's character.

In 1956, Luce asked Time, Inc. From the start, however, SI did introduce a number of innovations that are generally taken for granted today:. 6, 27, 42). (MacCambridge, 1997, pp.

Much of the subject matter was directed at upper class activities (yachting, polo, and even safaris), but upscale would-be advertisers were unconvinced that sports fans were a significant part of their market. The early issues of the magazine seemed caught between two opposing views of its audience. The popularity of spectator sports in the United States was about to explode, and that popularity came to be driven largely by three things:. The goal of the new magazine was to be "not A sports magazine, but THE sports magazine." Launched on August 16, 1954, it was not profitable and not particularly well run at first, but Luce's timing could not have been better.

After unsuccessfully offering $200,000 to buy the name Sport for the new magazine, they acquired the rights to the name Sports Illustrated instead for just $10,000. 17-25). (MacCambridge, 1997, pp. A number of advisers to Luce, including Life Magazine's Ernest Havemann, tried to kill the idea, but Luce, who was not a sports fan, decided the time was right.

At the time, many believed sports was beneath the attention of serious journalism and didn't think sports news could fill a weekly magazine, especially during the winter. In fact, there was no large-base, general sports magazine with a national following when TIME patriarch Henry Luce began considering whether his company should attempt to fill the gap. Two other magazines named Sports Illustrated were actually started in the 1930s and 1940s, but they both quickly failed. .

Its "swimsuit issue," which has been published since 1964, is now an annual publishing event that generates its own television shows, videos and calendars. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. Sports Illustrated is a popular weekly American sports magazine owned by media giant Time Warner.

Michael MacCambridge, 1997, The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine, Hyperion Press ISBN 0786862165. Ceased publication in December 2005 because of a weak advertising climate. Circulation of one million readers between the ages of 18 and 24. Distributed free on 72 college campuses through a network of college newspapers.

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