Sports Illustrated layoffs

Good take:

Column: The depressing fall of Sports Illustrated reveals the real tragedy of AI

 

What was the crime he committed? Because the state didn't charge him with a crime. I can't find anything about a fine. It could have been a civil violation.

 

Make room for McGwire/Sosa and Paterno as as well.

 

A few people had an inkling of what McGwire was up to. A reporter asked about the creative and was pretty much run out of the business.

 

The Arena Group has purchased AMG/Parade, which includes Parade and other lifestyle pubs along with an outdoors sports line. Print has been killed, layoffs already made, digital-only is in the works and AI content, no doubt, is on the way.

https://investors.thearenagroup.net...nalizes-amgparade-acquisition-powers-growing/


What happened at SI probably will happen with this group, too.

 

That’s from last year. Parade killed off the print edition right after the announcement.

 

Ah. Apologies. They just bought Athlon so I thought it was all the same.

 

Athlon's College Football Preview has gone so far downhill, someone might as well pull the plug. Used to read that thing cover to cover each August. This year it was in the recycling bin within an hour of purchase.

 

He sounds like a cross between Sam Zell and Bob Jelenek. Hold on, kids.

 

It's sort of funny--albeit not in the ha ha way--that they're just now giving up all pretenses of giving a shit and dispelling with any niceties. For better or worse, Ross Levinsohn and his sleazebag compatriots, all dumber than a box of rocks and without a shred of integrity between them, would offer up lip service to everyone being in this all together and the idea that you could somehow work your way to their level if you just worked a little harder and produced work a little better than everyone else. This guy is just salting the Earth and telling everyone to fuck off. Respect, I guess.

 

He should drink a tall glass of 5-Hour STFU three times a day.