Anyone here get Sports Illustrated?
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Not in many decades. I stopped long before the swimsuit models became fatties and transgender.
Don’t even pick it up if it’s sitting on a waiting room table.
Many people are unaware that the magazine was created out of Pine Lakes Golf Club in Myrtle Beach
Not in years. It's outdated and irrelevant. If they want to get back to relevance, then they need to start doing big sports undercover journalism. Things like finding out about bagmen and shoe companies funneling money and criminal actions covered up by coaches. They can't compete with instant news, so they need to take a different approach to making unique content.
The last magazine subscription I had was Kayak Angler about 8 years ago. And that was a gift.
I got a subscription 2 years ago. Had to go through a second party to even get it. I got it to read on the $hitter. After about 3 issues I realized there was rarely anything good to read. Every now and then a decent article about some inspirational minor leaguer or something. I can’t imagine the crap on there during the past year. That year of subscribing produced the quickest $hits ive ever taken.
Got SI and Sporting News through about the mid 90s. Also used to pick up USA Today often from a box or newsstand. Seems like forever ago ...
"I wouldn't trade the dirt under his fingernails for anyone else's soul."
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THE TOUGHEST KID ON ANYBODY'S BLOCK
He is of another time—when hard, insolent white kids came off the streets of New York to control the game of basketball in Madison Square Garden. They had
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I knew that. I used to live about three blocks down the street from pine lakes.
I had sportfishing and Florida sportsman 8 or 10 years ago too. They still send me offers that go straight in the trash.
We’ll, u must see doctors that have better selections than mine……& I’ve even complained to the doctors saying “what! U must have women making these types of picks?”😳…….better homes & garden, people, town & country, vanity fair.
“Doc, I mean if yer gonna feed us this crap @ least give us Cosmopolitan😜
It’s been a very long time since I had a subscription - but read si.com often. When SI and The Sporting News were in wide circulation was the last era of sports journalism - where “journalism” actually meant something.
I used to read the old Sport magazine. It was published monthly. Always had good in depth articles.
Subscribed when I was young. About 30 years ago, I added up the columns of sports writing and that of advertisements. It was about 50/50. I dropped the subscription because of that.
In the 70's, my parents would give me a subscription every year for Christmas. My favorite article was the one they did on Rocky Bleier about his experiences in Vietnam.
Kind of like this below... Not since high school/College days...
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The writing used to be oh so good. If I were to subscribe to anything today, maybe the Athletic?
Today there are maybe 1/2 the number of articles, they are shorter and seem to have been written by interns they hired away from People magazine. No George Plimpton's or Frank Deford's or Paul Zimmerman's.
Even back when SI was well written. It had a Northeastern bias that meant too much coverage of ice hockey for a Texans at least. Plus I never forgave them in the 1970s because during the great Tom Landry vs George Allen days they unabashedly cheered for the Redskins. So even when their writing was quality they irked me then.
This article reminded me of one of my favorite commercials.
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That doesn't change the fact that they've lost the plot as a business.
Was a big time SI fan/reader for years but quality of writing, investigations, et. al. went away. So did I.
What great memories."I wouldn't trade the dirt under his fingernails for anyone else's soul."
THE TOUGHEST KID ON ANYBODY'S BLOCK
He is of another time—when hard, insolent white kids came off the streets of New York to control the game of basketball in Madison Square Garden. They had
Thanks.
I used to subscribe to SI Magazine from the mid 1990s to the mid 200s. Finally ended my subscription once I started getting old and realized that other things in life are far more important than sports.
Uh, yeah, I get it for the articles
