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A Counterrevolution Against a Digitized World January 26, 2024
The sheet has been pulled over Sports Illustrated.Cue the outpouring of grief from Boomers and middle-aged men who hold a special morsel of nostalgia for the analog days of mailbox appointments and magazines shoved in backpacks to scour over at the b...
A Los Angeles Massacre January 25, 2024
Yesterday was another miserable day for a storied media institution. The Los Angeles Times, unlike Sports Illustrated, will continue to employ a bevy of well-regarded journalists, but the newsroom has been radically cut down. About 115 people, a quar...
Sports Illustrated’s Deaths by a Thousand Cuts January 23, 2024
How many times can Sports Illustrated die? Or nearly die? At this point, even one of SI’s AI-generated authors could probably write the magazine’s obituary. Name-check a few longform gods who once lived in SI’s pages. Evoke the pleasure of getting SI...
The Glory of Sports Illustrated January 23, 2024
At the moment, there’s confusion. Heartbreak and confusion. Sports Illustrated may live on. It may not. It may morph into something else. One hundred people are laid off. More than 100 people are laid off. Everybody is laid off. The union is fighting...
Greed Killed Sports Illustrated January 22, 2024
After almost 70 years, Sports Illustrated — the storied magazine that has published some of the best sports journalism of the past two centuries — appears to be over, at least as anyone knew it. On Friday, the union representing the magazine’s report...
R.I.P. Sportsfork January 22, 2024
Sports Illustrated and Pitchfork are effectively no more. The former might actually be dead—mass layoffs resulting from a dubious financial arrangement—and the latter will exist, in some diminished form, merged into GQ. The news disquieted me in diff...
