Sporting News Today thread (what do you think?)

I totally understand what you're saying there ... but you almost have to give them that. You know that there are some beancounters in the room telling them that they have to skew toward the 18-30 crowd.

I've reached the point where, if I can find good information in between the "cool" shit, I'm happy.

 

So far, I kind of like it. Not sure how much I'll look at it on the weekends, but to me it seems like a nice way to start your day and get caught up.

I have found myself going to the big sports sites a little less because the shelf life for things to stay on the front page seems so short and I don't have the attention span to search and search.

I like that I can just cruise through the pages and if it's a topic I don't love (say NASCAR), I can simply read the headlines. But I can also dig deeper into things I like.

I agree with those people who think there might be a bit too much football in there for their tastes. I would also like to see a little more golf.

 

Yes. 7:06 a.m.

Might have gotten kicked into your spam folder.

 

It's not supposed to The National. Why would it? Who wants to follow that into the grave?

The National was a sportswriter's wet dream, but there weren't enough readers with the time to read a daily SI. I'm in the business and I eventually got backlogged on them.

 

I talked to an editor there today. He said they've received 1,100 e-mails from readers since launching. All but 12 have been glowing.

They'll never win with a lot of people on this board but I love what they're doing (albeit being a little biased because I'm a fan and know people there). I heard D'Allessio talk a couple weeks ago at the MPI session in St. Louis. He was talking about this product and said up front they're not going for enterprise but for news, analysis, stats and such.

He said enterprise is for APSE contests (note my handle); readers want news. He's right. Y'all who think the future's in enterprise haven't been paying close enough attention to circulation numbers. (He also said the magazine will have loads of it. We shall see).

 

Well then! I guess I'm convinced.

 

I finally had a chance to scan through it. The highest marks would be for design -- looks very clean. The use of photos is also good.

Agree on way too much football. Maybe put half the football at the end, so that if people want to have more they can but they don't have to slog through it to get to other sports. If football fans were online more than other readers, it might make sense, but that isn't the case.

 

They're doing that on a page they call the "Overnight Report" which appears to be specifically aimed at wrapping up the games (and possibly the news) that happened too late to make the East Coast papers. I suspect what they're thinking is that readers will grow accustomed to late-game coverage being in that spot every day.

 

They need copy editors.

Just saw "aline" for "align."

 

Going forward, copy editing will be the first casualty. Between tight budgets and the need for speed, you'll see more and more errors like this cropping up. Publishers also will make the calculation that such mistakes will not be deal-breakers for readers.

 

You hear that out there?

;D ;D ;D

 

You're better than that.