Sports Illustrated covers many sports. The professional sports it covers are mainly NFL, NBA (and WNBA), NHL, MLB, and NASCAR drivers. The amature (or college) sports are college basketball (woman's and man's), college football, and college volleyball.
Brady has been on the cover 16 times of Sports Illustrated
The persons who was on the cover OS Sports Illustrated 49 times was Eddie Matthews.
The first African-American on the cover of Sports Illustrated was Calvin Jones - September 27, 1954.
eddie matthews
Baseball
Because someone at Sports Illustrated had a brain fart and fortgot that SI Swimsuit models adorn the cover and not celebrities.
Michael Jordan has appeared on the magazine cover a record 50 times. It is rumored that being on the cover of Sports Illustrated is bad luck.
A Model Cover girl of the 2005 Sports Illustrated
Marilyn Monroe
Eddie Mathews of the Milwaukee Braves was featured on the first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954.
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