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OT: SI could be no more...

Mazhude said:
Sports Illustrated lays off most of its staff, threatening iconic brand’s future

The end of an era...
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Mazhude said:
Sports Illustrated lays off most of its staff, threatening iconic brand’s future

The end of an era...
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Unfortunately SI has been irrelevant for years. Used to look forward to the weekly issue arriving each Thursday.

A couple of years ago I received an offer and tries the monthly edition asa subscription. Near the end of the subscription period they called to see if I was going to renew. I said no and when they asked why I said it was boring and uninteresting.

The next question from them was Would you like to order a Gift Subscri[ption for someone? Did they not hear what I just said, LOL
 
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I used to get so excited when they mentioned UConn. Once they had a mini feature about Antric Klaiber missing like his first 20 shots as a freshman or something. Not as excited about that one.
 
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stickybuddy said:
The private equity ghouls simply love ruining good things
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In this case it was ruined long before that. That was just life support.

Do any of you subscribe to it? If not then maybe admit that magazines are dead and SI did a terrible job of remaining relevant. They even managed to screw up the swimsuit issue, which is probably what was keeping them afloat.
 
Greedo said:
I used to love getting SI for kids issues when I was a kid. I had honestly forgotten they exist.
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There was an issue where the character Buzz something-or-other used the subscribers name as the 'greatest athlete ever'. That blew my mind. I loved those perforated cardboard cards as well.
 
HuskyHawk said:
In this case it was ruined long before that. That was just life support.
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True, but it’s been in the hands of PE for years. I don’t think there’s any question they’re the main cause of all this.
 
Inyatkin said:
I used to get so excited when they mentioned UConn. Once they had a mini feature about Antric Klaiber missing like his first 20 shots as a freshman or something. Not as excited about that one.
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He made up for it by not missing a shot at Ted's and Huskies.

He was so hyped out of high school. I think he was a 4-star recruit and we stole him away from Georgetown (which actually meant something back then). I think he had more suspensions than starts at UConn.
 
too bad. my dad used to bring them home from his office for me. always enjoyed reading them.

most likely a combination of private equity ghouls, the demise of attention spans to read an article more than 300 words, and dumb decisions to alienate readership (the swimsuit thing, duh).
 
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John said:
Sports Illustrated was the varsity to the junior varsity of Sporting News and Inside Sports.
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Treu, but I loved the writing in "Inside Sports". Pete Axthelm's gambling column was awesome.

Edit: found this.

sundaylongread.com

Inside Inside Sports: The Oral History - The Sunday Long Read

When Katharine Graham and the Washington Post company decided to launch the Esquire of sports magazines in 1979, they were riding high. If anyone was poised to create something touched with magic it was at the Post Company. Why then did they sell it just a few years later despite launching the...
sundaylongread.com sundaylongread.com
 
willie99 said:
The swimsuit issue ain't what it used to be
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Let's not even go there.
They took a perfect thing, thought about what kind of changes some people might like and screwed it all up.
 
Stew Crew said:
He made up for it by not missing a shot at Ted's and Huskies.

He was so hyped out of high school. I think he was a 4-star recruit and we stole him away from Georgetown (which actually meant something back then). I think he had more suspensions than starts at UConn.
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Got in for a minute against Duke in 99. Can't take that away from him
 
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Last time SI was relevant was when Elle Macpherson was on the cover of the Swimsuit Issue.
 
John said:
Sports Illustrated was the varsity to the junior varsity of Sporting News and Inside Sports.
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Funny, I much preferred the sporting news growing up because it didn't have any golf, tennis, horse racing or women's sports.
 
My parents gave me a subscription as a kid and I looked forward to getting it in the mail each week. I finally cancelled the subscription about 10 years ago (I had kept my subscription for sentimental reasons) as the the internet changed how you got your media coverage. When I opened the magazine, most of the articles were outdated which is similar to most magazines. And, I used to love the color pictures as newspapers were black and white. But that changed as you get get color high definition pictures and videos on the internet. Instead, I now have a subscription to The Athletic.

Private equity didn't sink SI, it was almost sunk before Meredith sold it.
 
stickybuddy said:
True, but it’s been in the hands of PE for years. I don’t think there’s any question they’re the main cause of all this.
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I don’t think PE is the cause, why would they want one of their companies to fail? It’s more that no one subscribes/reads magazines anymore. Doctors’ offices don’t even have magazines these days. Covid probably accelerated the death of magazines and offices realized there was no need to resubscribe since people just look at their phones anyway.
 
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