The Death of Sports Illustrated

[BernardKingGOAT]

Damnit. I loved SI. Couldn't wait for it to show up in the mailbox every Thursday. Read it from cover to cover from the time I was 7 until my late teens

 

[vol94fan]

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Go woke, go broke!

Yep they had to start using big girls to be more inclusive. Now they include girls that I might have a chance with. LOL.

 

[joevol33]

Crikey.

What am I supposed to read in doctors offices now?

Those magazines that tell you how prince William is out to overthrow the king, and it's not that our government is really dumb, it's because bigfoot and elvis are running things via an underground government!

 

[Alto1]

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Go woke, go broke!

That’s one WHALE of a woman!!

Beached whale that is………..

 

[volsforever27]

I just came here to comment that Kathy Ireland was special to a teenage me.

 

[ENGRVOL]

I remember being really excited for the 96 college football season preview with Peyton on the cover as a kid and buying one to frame on my wall. At the time felt like it was a big deal that vol football made the cover

 

[MAD]

12 -14 yr old boys have internet porn now. Don’t need the swimsuit edition anymore

An average teenage boy nowadays has seen more naked women than all of their ancestors put together.

 

[Gladiator1]

12 -14 yr old boys have internet porn now. Don’t need the swimsuit edition anymore

I was late on SI swimsuit, I had the JC Penny catalog.

 

[TN Jed]

12 -14 yr old boys have internet porn now. Don’t need the swimsuit edition anymore

They will never know the frustration of pages stuck together.......

 

[Vol#17]

Kathy Ireland is the GOAT of the Swimsuit issues..........and I'll fight any man who says different

She has nothing on Martha Stewart. Fight me.

 

[turbovol]

This has happened to a few of America's classic weekly magazines originally started and owned by classy people and organizations with high
standards. The digital revolution/internet killed weeklies. Time Inc. sold SI (and venerable Time magazine) to Meredith publishing in 2017/2018--a lesser publishing company, and then at some point Meredith sold the magazine/brand to another company, which in turn licensed a separate company to produce SI. You start getting half-a$$ed owners in a totally new digital environment and the brand is never the same. Same thing happened to Newsweek and others major publications. Time magazine is now owned by Salesforce.com (or a company controlled by the CEO/founder of Salesforce). It might a more reputable publisher than Arena media, which has now ruined SI.

 

[MAD]

Kathy Ireland is the GOAT of the Swimsuit issues..........and I'll fight any man who says different

 

[Swiftybaby]

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Go woke, go broke!

Sus

 

[Volunteer_Kirby]

This already happened. Time (who owned S.I.) sold to a PE firm in 2018 who, 6 months later, sold to another company to help pay off a billion dollar debt. They fire everyone then rebrand. Rinse & repeat.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

You guys talking about the SI swimsuit edition reminds me of this story from Carrie Fisher.

 

[GroverCleveland]

I guess they shouldn't have put fat women in the swim suit issue

I cannot see that helped any.

 

[hUTch2002]

I just came here to comment that Kathy Ireland was special to a teenage me.

You and every other teenager at the time. Let’s be honest, every man at the time. Likely some women too.

 

[Hank Bukowski]

Not sure if this is the right spot for this, but it appears the mighty Sports Illustrated is dead. Employees were told today that everyone would be laid off. Evidently SI was bought and the owner licensed it to a second party to produce content and publish. The second party defaulted on payment so the owner revoked the license. Lots of great memories of the Vols in SI in the past.

Sports Illustrated’s entire staff told they are getting laid off

It is a dark day for sports journalism.

nypost.com

Unsurprising, really. I mean, who reads anything these days that’s not on their phones or laptops?

They were once a very big deal and mattered quite a bit but times have changed. “Hey Siri…read me the headlines.”

 

[Volfan1000]

Not sure if this is the right spot for this, but it appears the mighty Sports Illustrated is dead. Employees were told today that everyone would be laid off. Evidently SI was bought and the owner licensed it to a second party to produce content and publish. The second party defaulted on payment so the owner revoked the license. Lots of great memories of the Vols in SI in the past.

Sports Illustrated’s entire staff told they are getting laid off

It is a dark day for sports journalism.

nypost.com

I used to get the publication in the mail and enjoyed the Swimsuit issues.

 

[dieseldaddy]

I was a subscriber for over 2 decades. My great grandmother bought a subscription when I was 12. SI will have some sentiment to me . It started in 93. Have so many si to this day . Somewhere I have no clue . All the Peyton issues I had lamented and hangs on the back of my toolbox at work. Good memories

 

[livefaith]

Sports Illustrated had published articles written by fake authors with AI-generated headshots and biographies as they attempted to meet the reduced staffing requirements. They deserve to die.

What's interesting is that people have no idea that @ ½ of every article and ad online is generated this way by "content creators".

 

[Manning Up]

There were so many articles throughout the years on Nore Dame football, even when they were irrelevant. Should have been called Irish illustrated.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

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[KnoxLandcruiser]

There were so many articles throughout the years on Noyre Dame football, even when they were irrelevant. Should have been called Irish illustrated.

or Ireland illustrated

Kathy was the goat

 

[loosecannon]

As children, my siblings and I were always avid readers, but the item that I looked forward to was the new edition of SI Kids magazine. I read every issue cover to cover and then moved up to SI by middle school. I continued reading SI all throughout high school and college. The magazine is partially responsible for me being a writing professor today. One of the biggest influences on narrative writing in my life was those SI articles. This is the way of sports media though. Everything is knee jerk, hot takes, or gambling. If you want stories, the Athletic is about all we have left.