The document summarizes the author's visit to a bookstore newsstand to look at various sports magazines. The author notes that Sports Illustrated caught their eye due to its attractive design and cover image of an Indiana basketball player surrounded by fans. They felt Sports Illustrated had the best design overall blending the background crowd well with the featured player and color scheme. The author learned there are more sports magazines than they realized and were most drawn to action shot covers and simple tables of contents. Their favorite magazine cover was of an Indiana basketball contender for a national title as it provided an appealing yet achievable non-action shot cover image. The magazines were generally similar in focusing on central athlete images and maintaining consistent layouts focused on the cover image and