This week's SI (and Newsweek?)

[Shaggy]

Opened my SI, with a great photo of Phelps and his 8 golds on the cover.

Among my issue is 16 pages of Newsweek, accidently mixed in when they were printing, apparently: pages 1-8 and 63-70. Because of it, I'm missing an article on Liu Xiang, an article on the Cubs, and half of the article on Phelps. Lord knows what else.

I'm guessing I'm not alone...

 

[SockPuppet]

That's what happens when you let a couple of magazines sleep together.

 

[broadway joe]

You sure it's Newsweek? SI and Time are corporate brothers. Newsweek is a rival.

 

[slappy4428]

You sure it's Newsweek? SI and Time are corporate brothers. Newsweek is a rival.

Struck me as odd too, but then again would certainly be post worthy if true.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Gannett just bought both and is expanding its experimental wrap-around mission.

 

[slappy4428]

Gannett just bought both and is expanding its experimental reach-around mission.

Fixed.

 

[Beaker]

You sure it's Newsweek? SI and Time are corporate brothers. Newsweek is a rival.

Struck me as odd too, but then again would certainly be post worthy if true.

That was my first thought, too.

 

[I Digress]

Hell, I never got my Newsweek this week. Maybe those are MY pages!

 

[Guybehindtheguy]

Hell, I never got my Newsweek this week. Maybe those are MY pages!

Last week's Newsweek, the one with Georgie Boy on the cover, was a double issue.

Haven't opened the SI yet, though perhaps both were printed at the same plant and things got screwed up. Who knows?

 

[Small Town Guy]

My SI was fine.

 

[Joe Williams]

It's only a matter of time until we hear that, because of the above mash-up mix-up, both SI and Newsweek have charged Tracy Ringolsby's credit card against his wishes. (Luv ya, Trace! )

 

[I Digress]

I hate double issues. They suck. My SI was fine, by the way

 

[ServeItUp]

Apropos of nothing, I Digress has the best avatar on this site.

 

[sportschick]

Apropos of nothing, I Digress has the best avatar on this site.

It is fantabulous. I wish I'd found it first.

 

[Shaggy]

Definitely Newsweek. August 18-25 issue. "An Agent of Change" as the lead of the table of contents for a story about the second term of the Bush administration.

If I complain, will they send me a Sports Illustrated football phone as an apology?

 

[nmmetsfan]

Definitely Newsweek. August 18-25 issue. "An Agent of Change" as the lead of the table of contents for a story about the second term of the Bush administration.

If I complain, will they send me a Sports Illustrated football phone as an apology?

No, but they might send you some used NY Giants toilet paper if you re-up your subscription

 

[beardpuller]

This is a mini-threadjack, but I had The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated last night for a flight from Philadelphia to Providence. I was looking forward to reading the Sports Illustrated Olympic coverage, but I actually found The New Yorker Olympic coverage more interesting. Especially the Anthony Lane piece, though I thought his other piece, a review of "Tropic Thunder" was off target.
The best Olympic piece in SI, in my view, was the small take on London preparing for 2012 by Mike Farber, not just because he's a way better writer than just about anybody on their staff, but because London's Olympics is something I haven't already read 25 stories about.
There is nothing anybody could write at this point about Michael Phelps that I would read more than 3 grafs of.

 

[Huggy]

Definitely Newsweek. August 18-25 issue. "An Agent of Change" as the lead of the table of contents for a story about the second term of the Bush administration.

If I complain, will they send me a Sports Illustrated football phone as an apology?

No, but they might send you some used NY Giants toilet paper if you re-up your subscription

SI gives the worst **** for renewals. How many team fleeces, SI sweatshirts or ****ty gym bags do you need? I got a handheld Sudoku thing from Time.

 

[Headline act]

I was underwhelmed by the Michael Phelps piece. No offense to Susan Casey, I think that's who wrote it, but for an event of this magnitude wouldn't SI choose someone more notable?

 

[Small Town Guy]

I was underwhelmed by the Michael Phelps piece. No offense to Susan Casey, I think that's who wrote it, but for an event of this magnitude wouldn't SI choose someone more notable?

I'm sure it'll be one of the biggies for the Sportsman of the Year piece. Casey wrote the pre-Olympics Phelps piece and the one last week so it seems like he was her beat. I thought she did fine, although I'm sure the story at the end of the year will be more big picture.