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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 19, 2024 19:22:18 GMT
I thoguht this might happen a long time ago. Most sports publication are gone in actual paper form. And most of the websites are stat driven, due to fantasy leagues. I was always more of a Sporting News fan when I read the actual magazines. SI devoted way too much to Tennis and Golf, not my favorite sports. But a lot of their "long" articles were very good. I remember a very good article of Lyle Alzado and what steroids done to him.
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Post by Shane Falco on Jan 19, 2024 20:08:23 GMT
I would always read ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Sporting News during study hall in high school. Sporting News was always my favorite. I think it was Sports Illustrated that had a long Peter King article to end each magazine that I enjoyed. They definitely dedicated more time into writers telling a story. Outside of doctors offices I can't think of any place that actually carries physical copies of magazines anymore. Most of these companies transitioned to online focused. With the popularity of podcasts now I can't think of why you'd need to read articles on a website either.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 19, 2024 20:44:39 GMT
I would always read ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Sporting News during study hall in high school. Sporting News was always my favorite. I think it was Sports Illustrated that had a long Peter King article to end each magazine that I enjoyed. They definitely dedicated more time into writers telling a story. Outside of doctors offices I can't think of any place that actually carries physical copies of magazines anymore. Most of these companies transitioned to online focused. With the popularity of podcasts now I can't think of why you'd need to read articles on a website either. COVID really hurt magazine sales. They all disappeared from waiting rooms and most found out that people just looked at their phones anyway. So the subscriptions ran out. Time magazine has lost 2/3 of their readers in the last five years. I used to get SI, The Sporting News and Baseball America in the mailbox, along with TV Guide and Rolling Stone. I haven't had a magazine subscription in five years at least.
I loved the Preview issues. The Sporting News, Street & Smith and Athlon. They would come out about a month before the season began, for baseball, college and pro football and basketball. We got them all and me and my brother used to fight over them. I knocked out a tooth because the little dork grabbed one out of my hand and ripped it. My Dad swore he would never buy another but began to buy two to keep the peace.
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Post by DrKrippen on Jan 19, 2024 21:11:31 GMT
Everything in print is going under. The L.A. Times writers are on a one day strike today protesting the upcoming layoffs. Nothing in print is going to last.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 19, 2024 21:32:15 GMT
One thing I used to like about Sports Illustrated is that they used to have terrific photos in the first few pages. I don't know if they have those on their website anymore, but they always looked better in print.
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Post by Tim05 on Jan 19, 2024 21:57:23 GMT
Everything in print is going under. The L.A. Times writers are on a one day strike today protesting the upcoming layoffs. Nothing in print is going to last. Unfortunate, but an inevitability at this point. As much as I like to reminisce and agree that internet articles just don't have the same feel, I'm also not subscribing to any of these magazines I used to enjoy. |
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Jan 19, 2024 21:58:13 GMT
I subscribed to SI for years starting in my early teens through a good portion of my adulthood. Then one year I didn't renew and I almost never go to their website anymore. Their Swimsuit Issue isn't even worth a monkey spanking anymore. I can't say I read any magazines anymore but I miss the days when SI was in its prime.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 19, 2024 22:06:46 GMT
I subscribed to SI for years starting in my early teens through a good portion of my adulthood. Then one year I didn't renew and I almost never go to their website anymore. Their Swimsuit Issue isn't even worth a monkey spanking anymore. I can't say I read any magazines anymore but I miss the days when SI was in its prime. Their website is boring. Most of their best writers are gone. The photography is gone. And they have those embedded videos that drive me insane. If you want scores or stats, you're going to ESPN or CBS. |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 20, 2024 13:53:48 GMT
Twas' inevitable. I picked up their COVID-19 issue spring 2020, not realizing until then they'd already moved from weekly to monthly issues. When the A.I. scandal hit recently, I wasn't surprised in the least.
Still, si.com was actually the first non-email bookmarked site I'd visit on the daily, starting in the 90's. Alas, even their site became overwraught with ad banners (20% of the screen on a fixed scroll) - thus cramping my reading style, a death knell as SI is more medium-long form copy.
Anyways, I was a magazine subscriber also in the mid-late 90's. I enjoyed their deeper dives not even the internet at the time was taking.
r.i.p. already a relic.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 20, 2024 16:43:21 GMT
The youngsters don't know how sad sports news and periodicals were in the 70's. You had the newspaper. Which was slanted toward local teams. Then you had TV news. 10 minutes local, 10 minutes national. And the magazines. Of course, any news was a week old. I hated it when the Red Sox went out to the west coast. You never knew how they did. The scores in the paper would just read "Boston @ Oakland". Might as well have been "Boston @ Jupiter". When we got ESPN in 1981, I was delirious. Wow, sports news that wasn't just the Buffalo teams, Yankees, Cowboys and Steelers. I didn't have to wait a week to see if the Sox beat the Angels. The USA Today sports section was another plus. Box Scores! Now I have all the scores and stats as they happen and can watch every game in every sport if I'm willing to pay
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 20, 2024 16:50:33 GMT
The youngsters don't know how sad sports news and periodicals were in the 70's. You had the newspaper. Which was slanted toward local teams. Then you had TV news. 10 minutes local, 10 minutes national. And the magazines. Of course, any news was a week old. I hated it when the Red Sox went out to the west coast. You never knew how they did. The scores in the paper would just read "Boston @ Oakland". Might as well have been "Boston @ Jupiter". When we got ESPN in 1981, I was delirious. Wow, sports news that wasn't just the Buffalo teams, Yankees, Cowboys and Steelers. I didn't have to wait a week to see if the Sox beat the Angels. The USA Today sports section was another plus. Box Scores! Now I have all the scores and stats as they happen and can watch every game in every sport if I'm willing to pay To be fair, Toronto papers had full slate of active MLB &/or NHL team/player roster stats... on larger sized pages no less. That was until the mid 90's. Probably only twice a week like that, yet still keeping fans fully up to date with the entire leagues. Now, the Toronto Star's box page has random EPL standings one wkend & maybe not again for 5 weeks... they just go with the hot hand &/or to match stories they've written. |
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Jan 20, 2024 17:39:41 GMT
Not sure if I ever did this in the other thread but here's my Top 10 SI Swimsuit Models of all time:
1. Kathy Ireland
2. Brooklyn Decker
3. Paulina Porizkova
4. Heidi Klum
5. Elle MacPherson
6. Genevieve Morton
7. Ashley Richardson
8. Carol Alt
9. Cheryl Tiegs
10. Kim Alexis
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 20, 2024 17:42:16 GMT
Not sure if I ever did this in the other thread but here's my Top 10 SI Swimsuit Models of all time: 1. Kathy Ireland 2. Brooklyn Decker 3. Paulina Porizkova 4. Heidi Klum 5. Elle MacPherson 6. Genevieve Morton 7. Ashley Richardson 8. Carol Alt 9. Cheryl Tiegs 10. Kim Alexis meh, I was never big on SI's legacy models... like a dozen Meryl Streeps or something for them. We get it, 34yr old millionaire models... and? Now I don't even know why it exists. I saw on newstands last year or 2021 or whenever, & there was a f'n senior citizen model. Never mind their overweight cover models now. Who is that for? 13yr old girls role models? Just axe the whole thing. |
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Jan 20, 2024 17:46:34 GMT
Not sure if I ever did this in the other thread but here's my Top 10 SI Swimsuit Models of all time: 1. Kathy Ireland 2. Brooklyn Decker 3. Paulina Porizkova 4. Heidi Klum 5. Elle MacPherson 6. Genevieve Morton 7. Ashley Richardson 8. Carol Alt 9. Cheryl Tiegs 10. Kim Alexis meh, I was never big on SI's legacy models... like a dozen Meryl Streeps or something for them. We get it, 34yr old millionaire models... and? Now I don't even know why it exists. I saw on newstands last year or 2021 or whenever, & there was a f'n senior citizen model. Never mind their overweight cover models now. Who is that for? 13yr old girls role models? Just axe the whole thing. Keep in mind that most of the above were in their prime when I was a teenager. It was the next best thing to Playboy. |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 20, 2024 18:09:30 GMT
Not sure if I ever did this in the other thread but here's my Top 10 SI Swimsuit Models of all time: 1. Kathy Ireland 2. Brooklyn Decker 3. Paulina Porizkova 4. Heidi Klum 5. Elle MacPherson 6. Genevieve Morton 7. Ashley Richardson 8. Carol Alt 9. Cheryl Tiegs 10. Kim Alexis
And the body paint pics. Imagine doing that for a living. "oh crap, I have to go to work and paint on a naked supermodel"
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 20, 2024 18:24:00 GMT
And the body paint pics. Imagine doing that for a living. "oh crap, I have to go to work and paint on a naked supermodel"
I'm fairly certain it'd be a female colleague. |
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Post by NJtoTX on Mar 18, 2024 19:54:25 GMT
LATIMES.COM
Sports Illustrated gets a new publisher that will keep it in print
Minute Media, which publishes the Players' Tribune and FanSided, will take over operation of the legendary but troubled title.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT
LATIMES.COM Sports Illustrated gets a new publisher that will keep it in print Minute Media, which publishes the Players' Tribune and FanSided, will take over operation of the legendary but troubled title. According to the headline I saw this morning the new deal will keep it in operation for the next 30 years and they'll hire back a lot of the laid off staff. |
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