Sporting News up next?

I am going to show my age but when I was in high school in the early 70's I loved reading the columnists like Joe Falls and Furman Bisher. In that pre-internet era that was the only way I could read really good columnists. While Sports Illustrated was an awesome read it was really not covering the waterfront like SN.

 

I'm not that old but I'm old enough to remember when a surprise birthday gift subscription to TSN from my best friend's parents was the coolest gift ever. My roommate and I also subscribed to it in college. Along with Inside Sports. Fuck. This got depressing in a hurry.

 

I remember liking Stan Isle's columns best.

 

I still write for the college basketball and football yearbooks. I think they'll stick around.

 

Didn't TSN go in big on NASCAR right before it started to crater?

 

TSN went big on NASCAR years ago. The first push was around 1998.

 

Falls was one of America's great food writers.

 

I thought The Sporting News died out years ago. That tells you what kind of presence they have. Only one baseball guy now? What's the point? Seriously, what is the point?

 

Found a stash of Sporting News issues from the 1970s in the archive room at work not long ago. Didn't get much done that day but it was worth it.

 

Former SNer with a fun fact: the yearbooks aren't published by SN anymore. ACBJ / Street & Smiths oversee editorial and production independently but the mags still carry the SN branding. Yes, quite the cluster.

 

I'm not gonna name names, because losing your job is horrible, but one of their baseball guys they laid off, I found his Twitter super annoying to the point of turn-off. Super red-ass, too much political talk and bitching about needly first-world bullshit, not enough actual baseball.