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- What GOAT Week offers
- Night-by-night lineup
- Monday: Basketball icons and coaches
- Tuesday: Quarterback greatness
- Wednesday: Women who changed the game
- Thursday: Olympic greatness
- Friday: Golf and baseball icons
- Saturday: Hockey legends and stories
- Sunday: The next GOAT
- Featured portraits and archival highlights
Sports Illustrated has launched a seven-night special called GOAT Week on SI TV, drawing on its archives to profile the all-time greats across multiple sports. Each night runs from 7 p.m. ET to 11 p.m. ET and features exclusive footage, interviews and in-depth stories about athletes and leaders who shaped their disciplines.
What GOAT Week offers
The series mines Sports Illustrated’s vault to present long-form profiles, behind-the-scenes clips and signature interviews. Programming is organized thematically, so viewers can watch concentrated packages focused on basketball, football, the Olympics and more.
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SI TV is available free on several streaming platforms, including Amazon Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Amazon Fire TV and DIRECTV, among others. Sports Illustrated has published viewing instructions on how to access the lineup through those services.
Night-by-night lineup
The week is split into nightly themes. Each evening gathers a group of iconic figures and the stories behind them.
Monday: Basketball icons and coaches
Monday’s block highlights playing legends and the coaches who built dynasties. Featured names include Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Mike Krzyzewski and Pat Summitt.
SI’s package notes Jordan’s six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. It also recalls Pat Summitt’s extraordinary run at Tennessee, where she compiled a 1,098–208 record and won eight NCAA titles. Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s tenure at Duke, which produced five NCAA championships, is also examined. The network highlights LeBron James’s five NBA titles and, as the program notes, his pursuit of another championship “this year with the 76ers.”
Tuesday: Quarterback greatness
Tuesday centers on the NFL’s signal-callers. Profiles include Tom Brady, Joe Montana and Peyton Manning, with footage tracing their careers and championship moments.
Viewers will see Brady’s seven Super Bowl victories documented alongside Montana’s four Super Bowl wins in the 1980s and Manning’s two Super Bowl titles.
Wednesday: Women who changed the game
Wednesday spotlights female athletes who transformed their sports. The lineup highlights Serena Williams, Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and the U.S. Women’s National Team.
SI’s storytelling emphasizes Serena Williams’s 23 Grand Slam singles titles and the cultural impact of the USWNT’s World Cup runs, including Rapinoe’s contributions and Morgan’s international achievements.
Thursday: Olympic greatness
Thursday showcases Olympic legends such as Michael Phelps and Simone Biles. The programming focuses on their dominant performances on the world stage.
Phelps’s Olympic career is chronicled alongside the record of 23 gold medals, while Biles’s routines and seven Olympic golds are revisited in detail.
Friday: Golf and baseball icons
Friday pairs two American institutions: golf and baseball. The episode puts the spotlight on Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter, exploring the moments that defined their careers.
Saturday: Hockey legends and stories
Saturday turns to the ice, with features on Wayne Gretzky, Team USA Olympians and stories from hockey communities. The episode examines both on-ice brilliance and off-ice narratives.
SI recalls Gretzky’s career totals—894 goals and 1,963 assists—and his four Stanley Cup championships, placing his records in historical context.
Sunday: The next GOAT
Sunday asks who is building a legacy now. That episode groups contemporary stars and cross-sport icons: Stephen Curry, Lionel Messi, Usain Bolt, Tony Hawk, Shohei Ohtani, Caitlin Clark and Kevin Durant.
The segment surveys athletes who are still active or whose influence spans sport and culture. SI notes Curry’s four NBA championships and revisits Bolt’s unmatched streak of winning both the 100-meter and 200-meter Olympic golds at three consecutive Games.
Featured portraits and archival highlights
Throughout the week, GOAT Week intersperses portrait pieces on individual figures. Examples woven into the lineup include Tom Brady’s seven Super Bowl rings, Michael Phelps’s gold-medal haul and Serena Williams’s Grand Slam résumé. The series also presents deeper profiles—such as Tony Hawk’s impact on skateboarding and Shohei Ohtani’s rise to global prominence, as presented by SI.
For viewers who want a focused binge or a nightly dose of sports history, GOAT Week packages decades of reporting into themed nights that make it easy to follow one sport or sample several.
