Sports Illustrated

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First the bad news. Sports Illustrated recently announced they were cutting back their number of issues from 45 down to 37. And you can bet they won't be lowering their price on a yearly subscription so all in all once more the customer gets screwed. Beyond that as I mentioned earlier SI is one of the most balanced and mature media outlets covering sports today. By cutting back their media imprint if you will, SI is ceding more territory to ESPN which is not a good thing. As we know ESPN is the prime leader of caste talk. Additionally it cuts down the chances of great white athletes gracing the covers of SI. Will tennis stars ever get another cover not that they have been recently anyways? Will one of the greatest young athletes on the planet NHL's speedster budding superstar Connor McDavid get his overdue cover? And on and on. Will they continue to ignore Wimbledon if the finals fall on a week SI is skipping which they have done a few times in recent years? They did cover the historical Australian Open the following week which was encouraging but was that just a blip or will they start writing about significant events that happened the previous week? I sure and hell hope so.
ESPN has their own bi weekly magazine and it is pretty dreadful. There are annual yearbooks that Lindys, Athlon and Sporting News put out that cover MLB,, hoops and football college and pro etc.. but SI is really the only reliable sports magazine out there in the trenches 52 weeks a year.
Good news. Kate Upton is on the cover of the swimsuit issue my God need I say anything else. Justin Verlander you are one lucky man.