Sporting News Today thread (what do you think?)

[steveu]

Hey guys... this doesn't come out until Wednesday AM. I'm on the mailing list to get it... don't know who else is, but thought this might be a good thread to say it's great, it sucks, blah blah blah.

For those that read it, what do you think? I'll chime my two cents in when I see my copy.

 

[BYH]

I think this will not end well.

 

[shotglass]

I'm on the mailing list too, and I'll weigh in after I see it.

I'll be curious to see what time it "lands on my doorstep."

 

[shotglass]

www.sportingnewstoday.com

 

[Matt1735]

I signed up... And I'll put my two cents worth in on the board about what I think. Any chance at quality information for free is worth exploring.

 

[Barsuk]

I would love to post my thoughts ... but I can't read beyond the first page. FAIL.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'm on the list as well.

I've liked a lot of the recent hires, so I am optimistic about it.

 

[steveu]

I would love to post my thoughts ... but I can't read beyond the first page. FAIL.

Me too. OK, Sporting News, this is not the way to launch a publication. We prefer to read our sports BEYOND the first page?

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

you have to sign up to read the next page. there's a next tab up top.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

I would love to post my thoughts ... but I can't read beyond the first page. FAIL.

Semi-fail on my end.

Subscribed. Clicked the link. It didn't work. Ended up at the link above after "clicking here" when the page they sent in an email didn't open. Then, only had access to one page until I clicked download. Now I have four windows open and something downloaded to my desktop just to try and read the first issue.

Too much work and too much mess.

The best online/PDF anything was the link a little while back to a newspaper's new digital edition. It was awesome.

 

[Barsuk]

you have to sign up to read the next page. there's a next tab up top.

you have to sign up to read the next page. there's a next tab up top.

Yeah, I did. It still didn't work, but it's working now. Haven't plowed through all of it yet, but it looks pretty cool so far.

 

[NX]

I had the same problem, too. Couldn't get past the first page. Then I clicked on the "Contents" link at the top to get to page two and after that, they all opened up fine. Didn't download anything.

Don't have time to get too deep into it, but I agree. It looks nice. How is this free, though?

 

[VJ]

Because it doesn't cost anything to produce. No newsprint, paper, delivery fees, printing presses, etc.

 

[BigSleeper]

I've always thought The Sporting News sucked and looked gaudy and cheap. However, I kind this idea. It's an interesting concept, and I commend The Sporting News for trying something different. I look forward to seeing what they can do as they get further established.

One thing I found surprising: I had no idea Eichenberger left Newsday.

 

[TheHacker]

The technical end of it worked for me. I didn't have any problems viewing it.

In terms of content, we'll have to give them a chance to really get it going to see what it'll be like. First impression was that there was a bunch of stuff in there that I already knew by 10-something this morning when I read it. I'm not sure there's much need for box scores. But when you're not worried about how much space you're working with, I guess it's no big deal.

If they use some imagination and do strong enterprise and advances, this could work pretty well. If they're too firmly rooted in the old-school Sporting News ideal of covering every team, every sport with notes and box scores, it'll be sort of ho-hum -- not bad on occasion, but probably not something I'll look at every day.

Also, they could probably do a lot more with the design. A lot of pages looked like gray masses of type, which I suppose is better than the multi-font, multi-hued, multi-directional chaos of a certain other sports magazine. But overall, I think it's cool they're trying something. I'm interested to keep with it for a while and see how it goes.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

I see one ad, not counting house ads.

 

[MMatt60]

Eichenberger had moved from being sports editor to Web guy (to shepherd the move of preps stuff to the Web). Then he left. I had heard he was leaving the business.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I would love to post my thoughts ... but I can't read beyond the first page. FAIL.

Semi-fail on my end.

Subscribed. Clicked the link. It didn't work. Ended up at the link above after "clicking here" when the page they sent in an email didn't open. Then, only had access to one page until I clicked download. Now I have four windows open and something downloaded to my desktop just to try and read the first issue.

I don't have anything like that. Opens in a Firefox tab with a custom navigation bar inside the tab.

I signed up... And I'll put my two cents worth in on the board about what I think. Any chance at quality information for free is worth exploring.

And we wonder why the news industry is struggling.

I somewhat don't like this format. Not quite a PDF, I apparently can't download it and printing doesn't seem to work quite right.

 

[Appgrad05]

I wanted to like it. To be blown away.

I just saw an online representation of Sporting News magazine. Maybe it'll get better.

Oh, and I had no problems at all with having it work.

 

[patchs]

I like it, had no tech issues with reading it and it has a lot of good info.
There's some potential here, give it a few months.