Inside Sports

[lcjjdnh]

The Sunday Long Read

 

[Slacker]

The Sunday Long Read

Good stuff, thanks. It was a great mag for a while. I read every issue during its peak run.

 

[cjericho]

Damn, Walsh looked like Santa Claus even back then. Remember some buddies saying that a few years ago when they were at the WWL.
Wasn't Inside Sports the first to use OPS, or at least the first publication to print it? Think there's still some issues in the attic at my parents'
house.

 

[Doc Holliday]

You mean Inside Sports is still around? Growing up 70s-80s, I always thought of Inside Sports as Sports Illustrated's red-headed ugly stepchild.

 

[da man]

You mean Inside Sports is still around? Growing up 70s-80s, I always thought of Inside Sports as Sports Illustrated's red-headed ugly stepchild.

It was the SI wannabe.

 

[jr/shotglass]

You mean Inside Sports is still around? Growing up 70s-80s, I always thought of Inside Sports as Sports Illustrated's red-headed ugly stepchild.

No; the last issue was 1998.

 

[BTExpress]

Hated The Good Doctor (didn't care for his reincarnation here, either). Liked the magazine otherwise. Couldn't take my eyes off Cyndy Garvey when I saw that issue.

 

[Bronco77]

One of the top editors at Inside Sports when it was based in Evanston, Ill., in the '80s was a guy who'd been a sportswriter in the early '70s in the Quad Cities (home of my first employer). I'd lost track of him until a few years ago, when I found out he was doing PR work and also was a stringer covering high school sports for the Daily Herald in the Chicago area. Didn't know him very well because he'd left the Quad Cities about 10 years before I got there, but he'd probably be at least 70 by now.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Here's the Garvey piece. Pretty stunning expose for its time.

» Trouble in Paradise Bronx Banter

 

[CD Boogie]

The Sunday Long Read

When I was like 9, 10 years old, I had a subscription to SI, Sport, Inside Sports, sporting news and Baseball Digest. My room was a fire hazard, but it was worth it. Inside Sports was terrific. Gotta go down that rabbit hole and read more old articles.

 

[Alma]

Here's the Garvey piece. Pretty stunning expose for its time.

» Trouble in Paradise Bronx Banter

My God, "The House" section is like stepping into a timewarp! Decoration has changed so much!

 

[DanOregon]

SPORT had the best pictures. As a kid, SI was very wordy, and oddly enough the "illustrated" part of the mag really took a back seat until ESPN arrived. Inside Sports was a nice mix in its first incarnation. It's where I first read Gary Smith.

I remember hating that Garvey article - GET TO IT MAN! - as a kid. And if I were the Garveys I would have been upset, the article comes off as kind of mean and mocking. I understand the people kind of hating the Garveys back in the day - I never felt it was especially deserved. So they tried to project a certain image - who isn't guilty of that?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

When I was like 9, 10 years old, I had a subscription to SI, Sport, Inside Sports, sporting news and Baseball Digest. My room was a fire hazard, but it was worth it. Inside Sports was terrific. Gotta go down that rabbit hole and read more old articles.

I'm old/young enough to have subscribed to Inside Sports and Sporting News in college, as well as Details, Esquire and the local newspaper. I also bought at least two other papers everyday. It's a wonder my room didn't go up in flames 10 times.

 

[jr/shotglass]

SPORT had the best pictures. As a kid, SI was very wordy, and oddly enough the "illustrated" part of the mag really took a back seat until ESPN arrived. Inside Sports was a nice mix in its first incarnation. It's where I first read Gary Smith.

I remember hating that Garvey article - GET TO IT MAN! - as a kid. And if I were the Garveys I would have been upset, the article comes off as kind of mean and mocking. I understand the people kind of hating the Garveys back in the day - I never felt it was especially deserved. So they tried to project a certain image - who isn't guilty of that?

When Cyndy Garvey spent the entire article shooting down the happy myth, I think there was some validity to the take. I will agree, though, that Jordan took too much time trying to paint the background.

 

[CD Boogie]

You mean Inside Sports is still around? Growing up 70s-80s, I always thought of Inside Sports as Sports Illustrated's red-headed ugly stepchild.

Keep the redhead bashing to the Max Kellerman thread

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

When Cyndy Garvey spent the entire article shooting down the happy myth, I think there was some validity to the take. I will agree, though, that Jordan took too much time trying to paint the background.

Oh good. I'm not the only one who found 1,000 words describing the house to be a test of my ADD as well as my interest in what I was reading.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

I remember the first Inside Sports issue I saw on the newsstands - it had Ken Reitz on the cover, and I was thrilled because the 11-year-old me thought Reitz was the **** back then.

Now I realize he was just ****.

 

[CD Boogie]

I remember the first Inside Sports issue I saw on the newsstands - it had Ken Reitz on the cover, and I was thrilled because the 11-year-old me thought Reitz was the **** back then.

Now I realize he was just ****.

Bashing the May 1977 NL Player of the Month. SMDH...

 

[goalmouth]

Inside Sports was great because, for what it was worth, they'd print words of which SI wouldn't get within a country mile. I recall a profile of Randy White of the Cowboys driving past someone broken down at the side of the road, rolling down the window and saying, "Need a lift? Stick a jack up your ass!"

I couldn't quote anything from SI.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Keep the redhead bashing to the Max Kellerman thread

Sorry. Nothing personal against redheads, women especially.