Sports Illustrated for Kids
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Sports Illustrated Kids (SI Kids, trademarked Sports Illustrated KIDS, sometimes Sports Illustrated for Kids) is a monthly spin-off of the weekly U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 sports magazine Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

. SI Kids was launched in January 1989 and includes sports coverage with less vocabulary and emphasis on humor. The magazine's secondary purpose is to market sports to children.

The first issue featured Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame member and former Chicago Bulls
Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1966. They play their home games at the United Center...

 guard Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats...

 on the cover.

Sports Illustrated Teen


Sports Illustrated Teen (SI Teen, trademarked Sports Illustrated TEEN, sometimes Sports Illustrated TEEN Edition) was a bound multiple-page insert within regular monthly issues of SI Kids, written for the older readers of the children's magazine.. Its contents featured more statistics, predictions, and in-depth looks at both team-based and extreme sports. Sports Illustrated Teen first appeared in the January 2004 issue, being publish untile it was canceled in the March 2010 issue and was replaced with a selected article from Sports Illustrated.

Partnership with Topps

In March 2006, the Topps
Topps
The Topps Company, Inc., manufactures chewing gum, candy and collectibles. Based in New York, New York, Topps is best known as a leading producer of baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards, hockey cards and other sports and non-sports themed trading cards.-Company history:Topps itself was...

 company and Sports Illustrated Kids announced a marketing alliance to increase the overall awareness of trading card collecting among kids. The magazine advertises the inclusion of sports cards within every issue.

Magazine Contents

Monthly features include comics, humorous captions of athletics photos, child reporters, and player interviews.

The magazine's recurring mascot
Mascot
The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...

 is Buzz Beamer, a buzz-cut blond-haired Caucasian boy always in dark glasses. He stars in most of the comics in which he plays a variety of sports and also appears in several flash cartoons on the official website. Buzz is created and drawn by award-winning cartoonist Bill Hinds
Bill Hinds
Bill Hinds is a sports cartoonist whose work includes the sports comic strips Buzz Beamer, Cleats, and Tank McNamara. He received the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for 1986 and their New Media Award for 2000...

.

Other works have been published under the magazine title including video games, a television show, and books (such as a sports pop-up book
Pop-up book
The term pop-up book is often applied to any three-dimensional or movable book, although properly the umbrella term movable book covers pop-ups, transformations, tunnel books, volvelles, flaps, pull-tabs, pop-outs, pull-downs, and more, each of which performs in a different manner...

).

Cover History

Most covers by athlete, 1989-2011
Athlete Number of covers
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats...

4
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal , nicknamed "Shaq" , is a former American professional basketball player. Standing tall and weighing , he was one of the heaviest players ever to play in the NBA...

5


Spot Preview Editions 1989-2011
Issue Tittle Year Month Special notes
2007 NFL Preview! 2007 September Scouting Reports, Breakout Stars and Predictions
College Football Preview 2007 August The Top 10 We Rank the Best of Everything: Teams, Mascots, Sleepers Heisman Candidates, and More!
2007 Baseball Preview 2007 May
NBA Preview 2006 November
Baseball Preview 2006 April Team Scouting Reports, Players to Watch, and Post-season Predictions
Winter Olympic Preview 2006 February
NBA Preview 2005 November Scouting Reports, Pridictions, and Players to Watch.
Pro Football Preview 2003 September Feariess Supper Bowl Predictions and Breakdowns of all 32 NFL teams.


Special Editions 1989-2011
Issue Tittle Year(s) Month(s) Special notes
Althetes Give Back 2011 October Athetes support Breast Cancer (Magazine cover special all pink printing)
The Video Game Issue 2009 October Top 10 Games of the Year and Sneek Peek at the Future of Gaming.
Special Bonus Issue 2007 Winter It's all about Football. 52 Pages on America's Sport.
Special Mega Issue 2006/2007 December/January Bonus: Gotta Get it Guide
Best of the Best 2003 June We pick Who (and what) is Number 1 in Sports.
Best of the Best 2002 May Who rules in almost everthing in sports.
Olympic Double Issue 2000 October Featuring guide to 12 days of Olympic action
Winter Olympic Issue 1998 February
Olympic Double Issue 1996 July
Kids Take Over This Issue! 1995 March The intire issue is written by kids.
Summer 1992 Olympic Preview 1992 July
Winter Olympics 1992 February Featuring highlightds from the
In Dad's Duds 1991 June Featuring kids of sports stars
Special Extremely Silly Iuuse 1995 November

Awards and Reconition

  • Won the "Distinguished Achievement for Excellence in Educational Publishing" award 11 times
  • Won the "Parents' Choice Magazine Award" 7 times

See also

  • Sports Illustrated magazine
  • Sports Illustrated Almanac
  • Sports Illustrated Women
  • Faces in the Crowd
    Faces in the Crowd
    Faces in the Crowd is a long-running segment from Sports Illustrated. Starting in the January 9, 1956 issue, the segment was originally titled These Faces in the Crowd. The predecessor to These Faces... was a segment called Pat on the Back. It differed in that it did not just focus on unknown or...

  • Phillie Phanatic
    Phillie Phanatic
    The Phillie Phanatic, is the official mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball team. He is a large, furry, green creature that somewhat resembles a bird from the rear view with a cylindrical beak containing a extendable tongue.-Creation:...


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