Magazine Genre Research - Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is a magazine which features a variety of sports and their statistics throughout the season. They incorporate articles about famous athletes and interviews with them.  The cover of each issue has the same titles font and layout. Small article headings are added to grab the readers attention. In this specific issue, there is a professional soccer player, Carli Lloyd, holding a trophy which tells you that her team, or her as an individual, is good at their sport.  Sports Illustrated has approximately 21 million adult readers every week. They are 'the most respected in sports journalism.'  In the bottom corner of the magazine cover, there is a bar code. This is something for me to keep in mind when I create my own issue of a sports magazine.