OT: Sports Illustrated dead
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Are the plus size models and trans models part of their content?
can learn to mine?“The Arena Group alerted all Sports Illustrated staffers on Friday that their positions were being eliminated.”
Sports Illustrated’s entire staff told they are getting laid off
It is a dark day for sports journalism.nypost.com
Are we really debating the migration of media and that how people get their information has evolved? Maybe cutting all their best writers and photographers had a little more to do with it than the “offensive” models? You probably just agreed with me - no, those publications I mentioned didn’t feature those models and they are shells of what they were.
Their reporting had gone downhill and The Athletic jumped over them. Debt fueled takeover put the dagger in them.
Curious - do you subscribe to the Athletic? I get these “teases” on my social media feeds and it looks really interesting. Would you recommend it?
This this this. They were in trouble long before “they went woke”
But we are the Scarlet Knights and wore black uni’s that day. The horror! 😃
I have not. I have received a few trial articles and they were not bad. But they too have their "hack piece" tendencies such as this one:
Rutgers Hack Piece Via The Athletic
Hack pieces are written by hack journalists. Some may like Stewart Mandel, but I think he is lazy and not very good as to his research and balance. His is like a Colin Cowherd / Stephen A Smith / Skip Bayless type. They have potential (I have read some of Skip's early works), but rely on framing for meatheads to drive viewership.
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I subscribe to The Athletic for its Giants content. Also like the NFL draft stuff. It’s not crazy $$ so it’s worth it IMO
Can you blame them? Pages were probably all sticking together because of all that whacking action those things went through.Yes. Those late 1970's Swimsuit Issues were 🔥. Got a subscription to SI as a wee lad, and I saved all those mags, but they got tossed out when my parents cleaned the attic. I was like:
GO RU
I do, and so does @rutgersguy1
I'm a frugal elitist (right @jtung230 !), and I don't like throwing away money to information that is readily obtained from free sources.
I got my subscription for $1/month, and I pried open my wallet with a crow bar and parted with the $12. It has been well worth it. Subscription ends in a few weeks and goes up to $8/month. No way I am going to spend that much.
The Athletic is the old sports page of the NYT, a rag that I loathe intensely.
Mandel is a dick. A Northwestern alum too. I haunted him on Twitter when the NW scandal hit and he did not have a peep to say about it, and I'm sure he cowered in fear. 😂 Overall, the writing is pretty good and they have some good angles. Like I said above, doubt I will spend more than $1/month (maybe $2) to keep the subscription. Got tuition to pay for one more kid and retirement dreams.
What happens in the attic stays in the attic. Only the ghosts know what went on up there. Mom always wondered why I was so interested in a spotlessly clean attic and peeps said that I had such a strong handshake. 💪🫱
This is a sad day for me. I remember when I was a kid going to the main public library in Elizabeth on Saturday morning to see the latest issues of SI and the Sporting News (we couldn't afford a subscription). In the pre- internet/cable TV days this was one of my main ways of getting national sports news. When I was done I'd walk down Elizabeth Ave. back to the Port stopping at Jerry's along the way for a couple of hot dogs.
Good memories.
R.I.P. - SI
Good memories.
R.I.P. - SI
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Love them or hate them at one time it was the shit. Every home, office and public restroom had a copy at one time and the swimsuit issue was a big deal
And who of us wished they would be in Faces of the crowd one day?
And who of us wished they would be in Faces of the crowd one day?
I have it and post snippets of articles here from time to time.
I like it and I only read it for CFB. If you like other sports I’d guess it would be good for those too. It’s like 1-2 bucks a month for a year on promotions they run throughout the year. Don’t have to renew it and then sign up again when another promotion comes around. If you cancel near the end of that year they offer a deal maybe not as good as the promotions but close.
The athletic is great if you're into deep analysis and data driven content. It's not the most timely or comprehensive if you're trying to read game summaries and recaps. Closer to Bill Simmons' Grantland when it was on ESPN.
that is not saying much . I subscribe to the athletic. It stinks compared to the glory days of sports illustrated.
Lol Spanky. 50% here would hit that and probably even more, they just wouldnt admit it.What a shame, look what you missed:
Anyone with a half a brain knows that the demise of SI has nothing to do with being woke. The medium of magazines died a while ago and no pictures of big women and MILFs caused the end of SI. However if wokeism killed SI then what killed Soldier of Fortune magazine? Pictures of pink guns? What killed The Weekly Standard? Mitch McConnell in a speedo? SI had its place but no one wants to read old information anymore, everyone wants today's news today.
Good post. But SI did give some depth. No sports news organization does that anymore
Well they'd be perfect up in Syracuse, because they could keep you warm through those frigid winter nights on the Frozen Tundra.
There was an era when the weekly SI and TV Guide arrived was a special day.
Sweet memories of a time long gone...
Sweet memories of a time long gone...
Oof. I haven't had that strong...."Can't they put some clothes on" feeling since I quit visiting Hedonism II in Negril, Jamaica.
Penthouse couldn't even survive.
These idiots say every company is woke. When the banks were going bankrupt, they said they were woke. Any company that goes bankrupt is woke in their minds.
My parents got me a sub for SI starting when I was 8 and I got the magazine for about 15 years before becoming disinterested enough to discontinue. I can understand not loving SI or any other business entity, but some of you folks cheering at people losing their jobs is more than a little bit sad.
Nobody will read a magazine anymore because they are too busy looking at their phone.
Nice little article on some of SI's most famous covers.
nypost.com
Remembering Sports Illustrated’s most iconic covers after stunning layoffs
Perhaps the most iconic cover in Sports Illustrated’s history — voted as such in a 2014 poll — went sans headlines, readouts and captions.
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I have that framed and up on the wall in my coaching office. It is next to my New Yorker D-Day issue and a bunch of awards. I will never forget that game.We have memories
