demise of "s.i." truly saddens me

I'm well aware Peter King's probably 10 times the writer I am, but I can't read anything he writes.

 

To me, it fits the 'too much jewelry rule,' as in, if you look at yourself in the mirror and one glaring item draws your focus away from the overall look, take it off.

So many smoother ways to say he protects his privacy (which King has undoubtedly learned first hand. Sorry, could not resist.).

Also, I'll guess they went with this cover now because now is when King got the interview.

 

yeah, what she said much better than i did. there were many ways to say the same thing/make the same point without using "jealously" in this awkward fashion. thanks for translating, 21.

and i'm clearly biased being an nfl guy, but brady's first interview of any substance since his surgery seems cover-worthy to me. i mean, all the nba series were just a couple of games old, way too premature to be the cover. nothing else in the issue struck me as cover-worthy.

no doubt the boston scribes read the piece jealously. 8)

 

If I'm not mistaken, they referred to "Sarah Fischer" in the Castroneves story last week. I know next to nothing about IndyCar, but even I knew that wasn't how you spell her name.

 

Yes, they did. I, too, am bothered by some of the mistakes SI had. I'm not perfect, no one is, but there have been way too many factual errors and misspellings in SI lately.

 

What is odd is it seems that most of the mistakes are in the stuff that isn't time-sensitive. The Scoreboard features, the SI.com stuff, previews.

 

... as much as I have a problem with certain radio sports talk shows (including one on The Mouse in the morning) that are still yakking ad nauseum about the NFL in the middle of March, April, May, June ... somehow forgetting there are multiple other sports going on.

Not that I listen to sports talk radio much ... seems that's all I hear from the national guys.

 

The NFL should have a cap-space free trading period around this time of the year. That would spice it up.
Though it is tough this time of the year, especially with the playoffs going on, because the teams left in hockey and basketball have been stories for more than a month now and stuck in series where they are playing the same teams night after night. It gets to a point where it is either played out or you're talking about the matchup of the sixth men or back-up goalies and you have to accept that the teams will play and what happens happens.

 

This reminds me of another SI problem - they never replaced Rushin, who even with a few MPH off his fastball is missed.

 

I'm absolutely OK with having Tom Brady on the cover.

Then again, he's my keeper league fantasy QB, and I'm eager to know exactly what's going on with that knee of his.

Danica's never going to win the Indy 500.