Sporting News up next?

[Huggy]

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.

 

[Moderator1]

Sounds like you got a ton done, just none of it work

 

[k8m4]

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.

 

[Ice9]

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 bull****, not enough actual baseball.

 

[georgealfano]

I was a big Sporting News fan going back to the 1960s. I used to walk about a mile on Sundays after Mass to a store which carried it. After this went on for several months, my aunt got me a subscription.

I used to read everything in it, although it was mostly all about baseball then. Looking back, a lot of it was just rewritten stuff their writers had in the local newspapers but that was the way we got information before the Internet. Amazing.

I didn't think it was still around.

 

[studthug12]

I remember my dad used to subscribe and SN having every team's stats was so awesome for me as a kid. I would look at what happened over the last week as it had writeups on every team, their records, their stats. I didn't get to watch it like I do now so it really kept me updated. I remember looking through and seeing the league leaders in bold and seeing how bad the Brewers were with John Jaha and Greg Vaughn lol. I went to a Barnes & Noble and was looking and couldn't find a magazine and thought it was odd. Then I saw they quit their print product. Was a sad day. I didn't realize they still were around today either, but as Doc said, might as well not be.

 

[1stmm]

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.

If I recall, SN tried to kill off Yearbooks when it decided to go to clickbait/rewriting other people's stuff, laying off nearly the department a while back along with many others. Which was strange bc I heard that was one of their actual things bringing in revenue...anyway, then they brought it back under the S&S team as mentioned (prob should have stayed with that branding overall).

SN has made some very questionable moves and hires in the last several years, and I wouldn't be surprised if the layoffs continue, unfortunately.