Sports Illustrated print cutting back to monthly

[Bob Jersey]

With a few special issues such as Swimsuit, 17 total per year. Press times will be at least 3 weeks ahead of delivery -- hardly good when news breaks -- and prices will go up due to using higher-quality paper.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-sports-illustrated-will-reduce-print-output-to-monthly-214408997.html (link)

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[Kevin M.]

Maybe if they still offered the shoe phone?

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[John Edwards]

I'm holding out for the box set of Cleveland Browns highlight DVDs from the 2010s.

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[Tom Wolper]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:28 AM John Edwards <jedwa...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm holding out for the box set of Cleveland Browns highlight DVDs from the 2010s.

The only places I can think of that would still be interested in a Sports Illustrated subscription are doctors' offices and barbershops. In their heyday SI was known for having the best sportswriters. Has anybody taken a look at the new SI to see the quality of the writing?

[Jim Ellwanger]

> On Nov 17, 2019, at 12:43 PM, Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The only places I can think of that would still be interested in a Sports Illustrated subscription are doctors' offices and barbershops. In their heyday SI was known for having the best sportswriters. Has anybody taken a look at the new SI to see the quality of the writing?

I still have a print subscription to SI, and the writing seemed to be up to the usual standards in the most recent issue -- although it was mostly not-particularly-timely articles spotlighting various sports innovations (most interesting was about a model of track shoe that Puma made for the 1968 Olympics that wound up being declared illegal).

Of course, I feel like that for this type of one-off historical article -- and they'll no doubt be doing even more of this next year, on their less-than-biweekly schedule -- they'll have no problem finding decent freelance writers. My understanding is that most of the writers who were let go were reporters who were on a regular beat, and that's something where it can be harder to get a good replacement.

[Steve Timko]

Sports Illustrated had excellent writing, but what made them stand out in the 1970s and 1980s was the spectacular sports photography. Then along came round-the-clock sports coverage on ESPN and autofocus lens so even mediocre photographers could get great sports shots and they weren't that special anymore.

While Sports Illustrated had some of the best sports writing, they also had a lot of the worst.

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