Sporting News up next?

[steveu]

Apparently it's layoff day at The Sporting News. Two people posted on Twitter they had been let go today.

Anyone with knowledge want to chime in?

 

[da man]

I honestly didn't realize the Sporting News still existed until just now.

I thought it had gone under years ago.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Was just coming here to see if this made the board yet.

I am not being a wiseass here, but how does Sporting News survive? There is no print product, there is no over-the-air synergy, it doesn't serve as a portal for fantasy sports. Were I not in the business and knowing some of its writers, I'd never seek it out. I can't imagine how people outside of the biz seek it out.

It was trending towards click bait, maybe it can stick it out and do what CBSSports.com is doing, but is that really surviving?

 

[Riptide]

"Hey-yo, scrubeenies, I knew [sniff] the joint was toast [sniff]
when they swatted yer pal Fly out the door [HONK!]. The noive!!"

 

[Huggy]

"Hey-yo, scrubeenies, I knew [sniff] the joint was toast [sniff]
when they swatted yer pal Fly out the door [HONK!]. The noive!!"

"Shaddup!!!!"

 

[Moderator1]

I have friends there. It was pretty ugly - I got this sent to me just a couple of minutes ago: Sporting News laid off at least seven editorial people today including two of its three baseball guys, chief photo editor, Jeff Owens and a few more.

 

[steveu]

Ugh. I saw two names on APSE's Twitter feed but did not post out of respect. Wonder how long these people had been at Sporting News.

 

[HanSenSE]

I have friends there. It was pretty ugly - I got this sent to me just a couple of minutes ago: Sporting News laid off at least seven editorial people today including two of its three baseball guys, chief photo editor, Jeff Owens and a few more.

The former "Bible of Baseball" down to one baseball guy? We all know how ****ty it is out there, and it's been an ugly fall for a legacy publication. Still ...

 

[Alma]

Sad stuff.

Sporting news had laid off others in recent years.

It still puts out a CFB guide, as I recall. Wonder if that stays or not.

Is it still affiliated with any sports bars?

 

[Kayaugstin Kott]

I was a Sporting News subscriber up until its final magazine was printed in 2013. Thought it was always a quality read, something different from ESPN and SI. But their online presence is severely lacking.

However, I will say I still do treat the Sporting News Baseball Yearbook as the (yearly) Bible. I love it. I eat up everything I read in there. They still do a tremendous job on Yearbooks.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Is it still affiliated with any sports bars?

There was one in a Holiday Inn on Long Island for a few years, but it's been gone for a while.

 

[steveu]

Love the yearbooks. Also thought their try at a daily online product was really good at times. Just didn't have the heft to carry it over.

 

[LanceyHoward]

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.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

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. ****. This got depressing in a hurry.

 

[Riptide]

I am going to show my age but when I was in high school in the early 70's reading all 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 remember liking Stan Isle's columns best.

 

[Cosmo]

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

 

[dixiehack]

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

 

[Riptide]

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.

 

[TwoGloves]

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.

Falls was one of America's great food writers.

 

[Doc Holliday]

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?