UPDATED: SI builds a wall ... now wall crumbles

[dirtynine]

Aside from Pat Forde and Tom Verducci (who will presumably find other outlets), is there anyone else left at SI who's worth reading?

They’re all just faces in the crowd now.

 

[wade boggs chicken dinner]

Someone should really do a 19th Hole place on this.

Just For The Record.

 

[Comfortably Lomb]

I didn't realize SI ever had a website.

They were always just one of those magazines kicking around barber shops.

 

[bbc23]

Aside from Pat Forde and Tom Verducci (who will presumably find other outlets), is there anyone else left at SI who's worth reading?

Richard Johnson is excellent on college football

 

[Frito Tankona]

Emma Baccellieri is great on MLB and other sports

 

[Kenny F'ing Powers]

Thoughts and prayers to anonymous "keep politics out of my sports" reply guys everywhere, who may be learning that this truism isn't true for the very first time.

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This take is really stretching to keep politics in sports.

Unless having a strong union somehow fixes an archaic business model.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

I didn't realize SI ever had a website.

They were always just one of those magazines kicking around barber shops.

cnnsi.com was a must visit in my rotation of sports sites….a long long time ago.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

cnnsi.com was a must visit in my rotation of sports sites….a long long time ago.

Same. I just looked it up and that site shut down in 2002. Damn.

EDIT: Nevermind, that was their cable channel which I’d forgotten about.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Same. I just looked it up and that site shut down in 2002. Damn.

EDIT: Nevermind, that was their cable channel which I’d forgotten about.

Yeah, with Fred Hickman!

 

[Phil Plantier]

Connor Orr does great off-the-wall football pieces.

 

[Granite Sox]

Where does MMQB sit in all this? I thought it was owned by SI as well?…

 

[kenneycb]

This take is really stretching to keep politics in sports.

Unless having a strong union somehow fixes an archaic business model.

Are you surprised?

 

[8slim]

This take is really stretching to keep politics in sports.

Unless having a strong union somehow fixes an archaic business model.

It's Plastic Man level of stretching. It's utterly nonsensical. But when all you have is a hammer...

 

[ifmanis5]

Rebuild the wall?
View: https://twitter.com/BenMullin/status/1769710587825520942

Scoop: Sports Illustrated has a new publisher! He told me he’s planning to hire back some of the laid-off employees and continue the print magazine.

 

[8slim]

The Sports Illustrated brand has been deader than a doornail for a good 10 years now.

The best play at this point is to produce a line of retro t-shirts with their logo emblazoned on them. That's the only potential revenue generator.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

The Sports Illustrated brand has been deader than a doornail for a good 10 years now.

The best play at this point is to produce a line of retro t-shirts with their logo emblazoned on them. That's the only potential revenue generator.

And a football shaped phone.

 

[jon abbey]

View: https://twitter.com/jimmytraina/status/1770815600182362452?s=46&t=0GHHaPVUX26Io0V2HIcS0g

 

[Don Buddin's GS]

cnnsi.com was a must visit in my rotation of sports sites….a long long time ago.

I was working for CNN Ad Sales in Detroit when the CNNSI cable network launched. One of my clients was Dodge and Jim Julow the Ad Manager bought one of the first sponsorships on CNNSI. He said he wanted to be like Budweiser when ESPN launched--a founding sponsor. Later CNNSI.com launched and did pretty well in the online space. Unfortunately for both of us, CNNSI never got the critical mass of cable distribution in order to become a rival to the Worldwide Leader.

 

[nattysez]

How do 1 million+ people still subscribe to a magazine with no staff writers?

Sports Illustrated’s tumultuous breakup with its publisher caused the magazine to skip production of the May edition – leaving more than 1 million subscribers with empty mailboxes last month, The Post has learned.

Arena Group – which had its license revoked in January after failing to make a $3.75 million quarterly payment to rights-holder Authentic Brands – refuses to turn over the subscriber list to new publisher Minute Media, three sources close to the situation told The Post.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/17/business/sports-illustrated-fails-to-deliver-may-issue-after-breakup-with-publisher-sources/

 

[shaggydog2000]

How do 1 million+ people still subscribe to a magazine with no staff writers?



https://nypost.com/2024/05/17/business/sports-illustrated-fails-to-deliver-may-issue-after-breakup-with-publisher-sources/

I bet a lot of them are sitting unread in waiting rooms.