Sports Illustrated layoffs

I agree with you. Which highlights to the amount of talent that Sports Illustrated had on staff. While the current staff is good those were truly the good old days.

 

Where could he get a full-time job with the pay he should command? Maybe at this stage of his life he prefers to write books and not work full time?

 

As a child, loved The Hockey News almost as much as Zander Hollander's Complete Handbooks ... and that's saying a lot.

 

The last point could definitely be a thing. But your first point speaks to what I’m talking about. Let’s assume he did want to work full-time. Is there a market for him? I would like to hope so since he is one of the greatest to ever do it.

 

This article, by Douglas S. Looney in the Aug. 27, 1979 issue, has long been one of my favorites. And there is no way something like this gets written today.

(Hopefully this works. SI Vault has lots of broken links these days).

 

Who regularly publishes longform work now? Does ESPN.com, The Athletic or Wall Street Journal? Those would be the first two places I would think of where S.L. Price could be hired.
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Sent earlier this evening:

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How long has it been a monthly?

 

2020. It dropped from (mostly) weekly to biweekly in 2018, which is when I dropped it.

 

New SI arrived with Olympic Preview......

That has Athing Mu on the cover with the tagline: Track's brightest star will light up Paris.


Oops.

 

Yikes. Speaking of bad timing, although not the Olympics:

https://www.theringer.com/soccer/20...opa-america-gregg-berhalter-borussia-dortmund