Sports Illustrated layoffs

It was Grant Wahl, assailing Maven for imposing a 30 percent pay cut that would remain in effect even after the pandemic is over.

 

Wahl's wife is one of the infectious disease experts making the rounds of the evening programming on MSNBC.

 

This is an example of the homerish drivel by a Maven. Nowhere does it mention, for example, that Gundy called this "the Chinese virus."
It does not mention his reference to "so-called medical people."

Mike Gundy Eager, Planning to Get Back to Work and Football

 

The initial Oklahoman story was just as bad. They updated it about four hours later after the backlash started because there was no mention of anything like that originally

 

How soon until he joins The Athletic?

 

Unfortunatley, this was coming after he sent that tweet about the pay cuts. I feel terrible for him and he made an excellent point in a tweet that's now been deleted. But one also has to understand that tweeting negative things about your current employer likely isn't going to end well.

 

Sad what's happening there. Just sad.

I do agree that Wahl cast his own fate with the tweet.

I also agree he'll be hired pretty fast.

 

Wahl is the leading American soccer writer and SI has always had some really good soccer content. I’ve kept my subscription out of loyalty/inertia, but that’s going to end.