Sporting News layoffs

People announcing their layoffs on Twitter.

Yes, Virginia, there’s still a Sporting News.

 

Props to everyone still trying to make it work, but I don't know how they're still in business. As awful as Sports Illustrated has become under the Maven morons, at least they're still publishing a magazine and you can see a sliver of well-that-makes-sense-for-2024 idiotic logic to their web presence. What is Sporting News doing? There's no magazine. The website is just a block of text...a whole bunch of links with no teasers, no pics, nothing. They used to be the Bible of Baseball, but Baseball Digest is doing a better job of carving out a niche as a legacy publication that still gives out annual awards. They keep cutting experienced people (18 years for Ryan, as he noted). If you're not going to keep experienced people and your website is impossible to navigate and you're not relying on a network of click bait BLOGGGGGERS or your history as a baseball publication, what are you doing?

 

They put together a nice printable NCAA Tournament bracket every March.

 

I'm surprised anyone has worked for The Sporting News for the last 18 years. By that I mean, I figured you would have moved up or out in that time span. But I do appreciate the sentiment - I had the great fortune of being hired by and working with sportswriters I grew up reading as a kid. Felt like I was playing Centerfield for the Yankees. (but in truth, I was probably little more than the back-up catcher or middle reliever based on my duties there.

 

When I was a kid, I vividly remember much my dad looked forward to Thursday when The Sporting News came in the mail. He just loved it. And I got it Friday, and loved it too.

Sorry for the people who’ve lost their jobs. Hope they all land on their feet.