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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated

About Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954. Founded by Stuart Scheftel, it was the first magazine with a circulation of over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. It is also known for its annual swimsuit issue, which has been published since 1964, and has spawned other complementary media works and products.

On the show โ€” 4 mentions total

I read a Sports Illustrated article on meat judging. It's an amazing article and there's a bit that explains exactly what it takes to be a meat judge: quick decision making, critical reasoning, self-assurance, and above all the ability to quiet one's mind for up to six hours standing in frigid temperatures and total silence.

from No Such Thing As Meat Cute, 2023-11-02 at 00:38:45 ยท read transcript

Other times Sports Illustrated came up

  1. He'd never had any training, but he taught them how to become great tennis players, and they were the greatest of all time. I read an interview with Venus from 1991. This was in Sports Illustrated, and even then she knew she wanted to be a tennis player. She was a brilliant tennis player. They said, what would you like to be when you grow up? she's like, I want to be a tennis player or an archaeologist or an astronaut who travels to Jupiter.

    No Such Thing As An Ark For Peanuts, 2022-04-29 ยท listen

  2. He, I don't think it gives anything away for the movie to say he was a very hot housing father who really wanted his children to be tennis players at a very, very young age. He'd never had any training, but he taught them how to become great tennis players and they were the greatest of all time. I read an interview with Venus from 1991. This was in Sports Illustrated. Even then she knew she wanted to be a tennis player. She was a brilliant tennis player.

    424: No Such Thing As An Ark For Peanuts, 2022-04-29 ยท listen

  3. My fact is that Major League Baseball has an official mud. Which is quite cool. What do they do with this mud? They rub it on their balls. Okay. This is from a great article in Sports Illustrated, which I... You read for the articles. I read for the articles. I genuinely do. It's a profile of this man called Jim Bintliff. He spends his life, basically, harvesting mud.

    No Such Thing As Giving Birth Up A Climbing Wall, 2019-09-06 ยท listen

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