BUSINESS
October 17, 2002 | Corie Brown
AOL Time Warner said it would stop publishing Sports Illustrated Women to cut costs at its Time Inc. unit. With a circulation of 400,000 after 34 issues, the spinoff of the company's 48-year-old Sports Illustrated magazine will end with the December issue. The company announcement follows news this month that the world's largest magazine publisher would stop publishing its Mutual Funds magazine. Both closings are casualties of the depressed market for advertising.
SPORTS
September 9, 1999 | ALEX KIMBALL
What: "The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine," by Michael MacCambridge. Price: $24.95 (hardcover), Hyperion. The boy, a few weeks shy of his 10th birthday, realized what he wanted most that year. He pulled the subscription card from the magazine, carefully filled in the blanks and took it to his father for permission before mailing it.
SPORTS
May 21, 1999 | From Associated Press
Facing the threat of media boycotts at the Indy 500, the speedway reinstated credentials for a Sports Illustrated writer who had been barred because the magazine ran a critical article and photo of fans killed at a race. The ban had raised concerns at several newspapers around the country. The Chicago Tribune and Sports Illustrated said they weren't going to cover the May 30 race, and the Los Angeles Times was considering a similar move.
SPORTS
June 10, 1998 | BILL PLASCHKE
You are a supporter of USC athletics. You return home from your Newport Beach car dealership one early June evening to discover your favorite school has sent you a letter. You smile and wonder. Hmmm, maybe it's from energized new football coach Paul Hackett, discussing the team's spring progress. Or, perhaps, it's about the baseball team's inspirational march toward a national championship. You hurriedly open the letter, expecting something light and fun. And out falls a rock.
BUSINESS
March 5, 1998 | Russ Stanton
An even closer look at the fine print of the 1998 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue finds that a small Orange County swimwear company came away the big winner. Jamaican Style Inc. of Fountain Valley, a 10-year-old company owned by Jerry Goeden, had three of its suits appear in the magazine's best-selling issue of the year. That development is probably lost on most of the magazine's readers, but it's considered a huge honor--and big business builder--in the fashion industry.
BUSINESS
February 20, 1998 | RUSS STANTON
If you didn't make it to the fine print of this week's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, two Orange County companies landed their goods in the magazine's biggest-selling issue of the year. The big winner was GirlStar Swim, the women's swimwear line of Irvine-based Gotcha International, which had two of its suits in the 220-page special issue. In addition, a suit made by Radio Fiji for Raisins, which is owned by Costa Mesa-based Quiksilver Inc., made the magazine.