Watt and Altuve to Be Joined by Other
Winners, Including Colin Kaepernick, Joel Embiid, Maya Moore and
Carlos Beltran at SI’s Sportsperson of the Year Award Show at
Barclays Center, December 5; Show Will Be Televised for the First
Time Nationally, Airing on NBCSN at 8 p.m. ET on December 8 and on
Univision Deportes Network at 8 p.m. ET on December 9
Time Inc.’s (NYSE: TIME) SPORTS ILLUSTRATED today announced that
Houston athletes J.J. Watt of the Texans and José Altuve of
the World Series Champion Astros have been named SPORTS
ILLUSTRATED’s 2017 Sportspersons of the Year. The pair will accept
the honor at SI’s Sportsperson of the Year Award Show on
December 5 at Barclays Center in New York. The show will be
televised nationally for the first time, airing on NBCSN at
8 p.m. ET on December 8 and on Univision Deportes Network at
8 p.m. ET on December 9.
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Watt and Altuve are recognized for their contributions both on
and off the field and for embodying this year’s key theme of
“Athletes Who Care.” The two are featured together on the cover of
SI’s annual Sportsperson of the Year issue and in new profiles
spotlighting their impact. Read more about the choice and check out
behind-the-scenes footage from their joint photo shoot on
SI.com/Sportsperson.
“We will remember 2017 as much for what athletes strove to
achieve off the field as for what they achieved on it,” said Chris
Stone, Editorial Director of Sports at Time Inc. “While J.J. and
José represent two very different paths, they both led to the same
destination: #HoustonStrong. This year also marks the 30th
anniversary of SI’s original ‘Athletes Who Care’ Sportsperson of
the Year honor, which recognizes players who transcended sport
alone. This year once again we celebrate a new generation of
athletes who care, in all senses of the word: caring about
humanitarian efforts, about social and political justice, about
their communities and about their crafts.”
The Houston Texans’ Watt raised more than $37 million in
Hurricane Harvey relief aid and served as a beacon for what an
athlete can do with their platform beyond sports. As Peter King,
Editor in Chief of The MMQB, points out, “Nothing J.J. Watt has
achieved in his career, or might still achieve, will measure up to
what he did for Houston.”
Said Watt: “All I did was give people a way to help… If I’m
going to get an award, I feel like over 200,000 other people should
too.”
Altuve, the Houston Astros’ second baseman and American League
MVP, is an inspirational story about a consistently underestimated
player who rose to the top of his sport. The three-time batting
champion was a key part of the team that brought Houston its first
World Series Championship. He is recognized for giving back and
inspiring a community when it needed it most.
Altuve tells SI: “The city of Houston has treated me really
good… I felt at that time that I owed them something. So when they
were having a hard time, I wanted to give something back to
them.”
Since 1954, Sports Illustrated has presented the annual
Sportsperson of the Year award to the player, coach or team who has
best personified the ideals of athletic achievement and
sportsmanship, on and off the field. Watt and Altuve join a list of
transcendental athletes that includes LeBron James, Serena
Williams, Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali and Wayne
Gretzky. Watt is the seventh NFL athlete to be named Sportsperson
of the Year, joining the likes of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Joe
Montana. Altuve is the 17th MLB athlete to be named Sportsperson of
the Year, joining names like Derek Jeter, Cal Ripken Jr. and Sandy
Koufax. This is the tenth time SI has chosen multiple Sportspersons
of the Year; the most recent co-Sportsperson of the Year, former
Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt and Duke men’s
basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, were awarded in 2011.
J.J. Watt and José Altuve will be honored at the 2017 SI
Sportsperson of the Year Award Show on December 5, alongside the
Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award winner, Colin
Kaepernick; the 2017 SI Kids SportsKid of the Year,
Bunchie Young; the 2017 Rising Star of the Year Award
presented by Symetra, Joel Embiid; the 2017 Performer
of the Year Award presented by Jack Link’s, Maya
Moore; and the 2017 Hope Award recipient, Carlos
Beltran.
The telecast is being produced by Time Inc. Productions, the
company’s television production division, which has tapped JASH, a
Group Nine company, to co-produce. Highly regarded producers Robert
Morton and Daniel Kellison will serve as executive producers.
Executive producers from Time Inc. are Steve Cannella, Ian Orefice
and Josh Oshinsky. Official marketing partners of Sports
Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year include Gatorade, Jack Link’s,
Reebok, Sam Adams and Symetra.
NBCSN will air an encore presentation of Sports Illustrated’s
Sportsperson of the Year on Sunday, December 10 at 10 p.m. ET and
Tuesday, December 12 at 11:30 p.m. ET.
# # #
ABOUT THE SPORTS ILLUSTRATED GROUP
Time Inc.'s SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is the preeminent journalistic
enterprise covering the world of sports both on and off the field.
Debuting in 1954, SI has garnered worldwide acclaim for its
award-winning storytelling born from an independent voice and for
its unparalleled access to the most popular athletes and newsmakers
from the sports world. This is the underpinning of the Group,
which boasts a collection of best-in-class consumer products,
platforms and businesses. The SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Group features the
fastest-growing top 10 digital sports network, the most-read sports
magazine, a new streaming video network—SPORTS ILLUSTRATED TV (SI
TV)—and marquee franchises and properties
including SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT, The MMQB, Planet
Fútbol, the FanSided Network of sites and apps, Sportsperson of the
Year, SI Fashionable 50, SI EATS, SI Kids, GOLF Magazine
and GOLF.com. For more information visit SI.com and
follow @SINow on Twitter, @SportsIllustrated
on Instagram and Facebook and SI_mag on
Snapchat. The all-new SI TV over-the-top (OTT) network
features over 130 hours of on-demand programming including original
documentary series, classic sports movies and TV shows, available
now on Amazon Channels at: SI.com/TV.
ABOUT TIME INC.
Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) is a leading multi-platform consumer media
company that engages over 230 million consumers globally every
month. The company's influential brands include PEOPLE, TIME,
FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, INSTYLE, REAL SIMPLE, SOUTHERN LIVING
and TRAVEL + LEISURE, as well as approximately 60 diverse
international brands. Time Inc. offers marketers a differentiated
proposition in the marketplace by combining its powerful brands,
trusted content, audience scale, direct relationships with
consumers and unique first-party data. The company is home to
growing media and platforms, including digital video, OTT,
television, licensing, paid products and services and celebrated
live events, such as the TIME 100, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women,
PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’s Sportsperson of
the Year, the ESSENCE Festival and the FOOD & WINE Classic in
Aspen.
ABOUT NBCSN
NBC Sports Group serves sports fans 24/7 with premier live
events, insightful studio shows, and compelling original
programming. The sports media company consists of NBC Sports, NBC
Olympics, NBCSN, Golf Channel, NBC Sports Regional Networks, NBC
Sports Radio and NBC Sports Digital, which includes NBCSports.com,
NBCOlympics.com, GolfChannel.com, the digital assets of the NBC
Sports Regional Networks, Rotoworld, the NBC Sports Talk franchise,
multiple apps, and two transactional sports businesses, GolfNow and
SportsEngine. NBC Sports Group possesses an unparalleled collection
of television rights agreements, partnering with some of the most
prestigious sports properties in the world: the International
Olympic Committee and United States Olympic Committee, the NFL,
NHL, NASCAR, PGA TOUR, The R&A, PGA of America, Churchill
Downs, Premier League, Tour de France, French Open, IndyCar and
many more. In 2018, NBC Sports Group will take part in presenting
three of the biggest sporting events in the world: Super Bowl LII,
The Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, and the FIFA World
Cup on the networks of Telemundo.
ABOUT UNIVISION COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) is the leading media company
serving Hispanic America. The Company, a chief content creator in
the U.S., includes Univision Network, one of the top networks in
the U.S. regardless of language and the most-watched
Spanish-language broadcast television network in the country,
available in approximately 90% of U.S. Hispanic television
households; UniMás, a leading Spanish-language broadcast television
network available in approximately 84% of U.S. Hispanic television
households; Univision Cable Networks, including Galavisión, the
most-watched U.S. Spanish-language entertainment cable network, as
well as UDN (Univision Deportes Network), the most-watched U.S.
Spanish-language sports cable network, Univision tlnovelas, a
24-hour Spanish-language cable network dedicated to telenovelas,
ForoTV, a 24-hour Spanish-language cable network dedicated to
international news, and an additional suite of cable offerings - De
Película, De Película Clásico, Bandamax, Ritmoson and Telehit; as
well asan investment in El Rey Network, a general
entertainment English-language cable network; Univision Local
Media, which owns and/or operates 61 television stations and 58
radio stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico;
Univision Now, a direct-to-consumer, on demand and live streaming
subscription service; Univision.com, the most-visited
Spanish-language website among U.S. Hispanics; and Uforia, a music
application featuring multimedia music content. The Company also
includes the Fusion Media Group (FMG), a division that serves
young, diverse audiences. FMG includes news and lifestyle
English-language cable network FUSION TV, and a
collection of leading digital brands that span a range of
categories: technology (Gizmodo), sports (Deadspin), music
(TrackRecord), lifestyle (Lifehacker), modern women’s interests
(Jezebel), news and politics (Splinter), African American news and
culture (The Root), gaming (Kotaku), and car culture (Jalopnik).
FMG also includes the Company’s interest in comedy and news satire
brands The Onion, Clickhole and The A.V. Club. Headquartered in New
York City, UCI has content creation facilities and sales offices in
major cities throughout the United States. For more information,
please visit corporate.univision.com.
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