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  • Sports Illustrated’s entire staff told they are getting laid off

    01/19/2024 10:12:51 AM PST · by T.B. Yoits · 90 replies
    The Newy York Post ^ | 1/19/2024 | Miles Schachner
    The Arena Group alerted all Sports Illustrated staffers on Friday that their positions were being eliminated. Richard Deitsch, a sports media reporter who left for Sports Illustrated for the Athletic, posted the email that all employees received on X. It noted, in part, that some employees would be “terminated immediately.” The decision comes after the Authentic Brands Group, the licensing group that bought Sports Illustrated for $110 million from Meredith five years ago, terminated the agreement it holds with The Arena Group to publish the magazine in print and digital, per Front Office Sports. “Some employees will be terminated immediately,...
  • Minnesota Model, Makes History As The 1st To Wear Burkini In Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

    04/29/2019 10:57:31 AM PDT · by AT7Saluki · 88 replies
    WCCO-CBS Minnesota ^ | 4/29 | Staff
    A Minnesota woman is breaking boundaries in the modeling world, becoming the first model to wear a hijab and burkini for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. Twenty-one-year-old Halima Aden was born in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, but she grew up near St. Cloud, Minnesota. The Somali-American model made history back in 2016 for becoming the first fully-covered Muslim woman to compete in the Miss Minnesota pageant.
  • 1470-1475 AD - Illustrated Book of the Deeds of Alexander the Great to Early Venetian Lute Music

    05/31/2018 12:08:54 PM PDT · by mairdie · 18 replies
    The text was created by Jean du Quesne in Lille, a city at the northern tip of France. The art was created by an anonymous artist, known as the Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolation, in Bruges, a city in the northwest of Belgium.
  • Sports Illustrated Editor: 'The Model's Personality Is Just as Important as Her Looks'

    02/16/2011 6:43:17 PM PST · by Nachum · 53 replies · 1+ views
    fox news ^ | 2/16/11 | Hollie McKay
    The 2011 Edition of the famed “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit” issue hit newsstands across the country on Tuesday, featuring a bevy of beauties including covergirl Irina Shayk, Brooklyn Decker, Cintia Dicker and Julie Henderson. But it turns out that earning a coveted spot inside the glossy magazine takes more than just a fabulous figure and features. t's what’s inside that matters. “We’re in constant touch with the New York modeling agencies, and they always let us know if they get a girl they think is the right fit for us because there aren’t that many that are as shapely and full-bodied...
  • Netanyahu's son joins IDF - with bodyguard in tow (ILLUSTRATED)

    07/21/2009 12:34:44 PM PDT · by Cinnamon Girl · 48 replies · 4,244+ views
    Ha'aretz ^ | 09:58 21/07/2009 | The Associated Press
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's oldest son has begun his mandatory three-year military service. Netanyahu accompanied his son Yair to a military induction center in Jerusalem Tuesday to see him off. The 18-year-old Yair boarded a bus to another army base where he will be processed. He will then go through three weeks of basic training before joining the military spokesman's office. Yair will be the army's only private with a personal bodyguard. Netanyahu himself was an officer in an elite Israeli commando unit. The prime minister has another son, Avner, with his wife Sara and an older daughter, Noa, from...
  • The 2005 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue...

    02/25/2005 8:54:25 AM PST · by crushelits · 37 replies · 19,148+ views
    crushelits | Feb. 25, 2001 | crushelits
      2005 Sports Illustrated Swimsuits    Michelle Alves BORN: Londrina, Brazil AGE: 25 Ana Beatriz Barros BORN: Itabira, Brazil AGE: 22 Yamila Diaz-Rahi BORN: Buenos Aires AGE: 28 Alicia Hall HOMETOWN: Las Vegas AGE: 19 Bridget Hall BORN: Springdale, Ark. AGE: 27 Michelle Lombardo BORN: Glastonbury, Connecticut AGE: 21 Marisa Miller BORN: Santa Cruz, Calif. AGE: 25 Fernanda Mota BORN: Rio de Janeiro AGE: 23 Petra Nemcoba BORN: Karvina, Czech Republic AGE: 25 Oluchi Onweagba BORN: Lagos, Nigeria AGE: 23 Frankie Raider BORN: River Falls, Wisc. AGE: 30 Daniella Sarahyba BORN: Rio de Janeiro AGE: 19 Shakara Ledard BORN:...
  • The [Unofficial] Illustrated Guide to John Kerry's Political Career

    09/21/2004 12:41:22 PM PDT · by Mr. Beamish · 4 replies · 698+ views
    Mr. Beamish's Crank Files [blog] ^ | 09/21/2004 | Mr. Beamish
    Chapter One April 22nd, 1971: Kerry's "Winter Soldier" testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...