Game over? Sport Illustrated kaput

The swimsuit issues were just getting good. Oh well. Guess I'll stick to Whaling Monthly.

Good riddance. It jumped the shark when it put Caitlyn Jenner on the cover and I've been rooting for it to fail ever since.

They ruined the swimsuit issue.

Not really. I started following more niche sites for the sports I supported.

The Swimsuit Issue was fine, but you can get pix of the same models on IG or the web so who needed it?

Over it's history, Sports Illustrated was the home for a lot of great authors and photographers. One of those was Kenny Moore - marathoner turned journalist. In those days before multiple sports channels and social media it had an important role. To be honest I haven't paid any attention to it since it's last big purge. Walter Iooss captured so many great images on film.

Imagine being such a pathetic useless person that the cover of a magazine triggers you. My lord the cult is strange

I think there is room for sport specific magazines but I'm not sure the generalist sports magazine will survive much longer.

Some like men in their swimsuit issues and the rest of us don't. We don't all have the same tastes you do mussibini.

Maybe. But running magazines are sport specific and there aren't many left.

I wonder if their subscribers (all 6 of them) get refunded any money.

Great magazine back in the day. SI has become a shell of itself in the last 10 years.

Imagine seeing a man in a dress on the cover of a magazine and thinking "This is great, this is exactly why I subscribed to Sports Illustrated"

I was 15 when this happened. SI was my primary source of info on what I believed to be an incredible athletic accomplishment.

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It was such a huge part of my growing up and learning about sports. I remember seeing it every week in the library and then I saved up enough money to get a subscription when I was maybe 10 and had a subscription for about 20 years after that.

Amazing writing and covered more than just the "big 4 sports" especially in the 70s.

It was one of the week's highlights when it arrived. Faces in the Crowd was sort of fun and then going back to see people who later became superstars.

I think The Athletic is close to what SI was and not limited by ad space and more immediate.

Printed magazines are just dinosaurs today. I loved Sports Illustrated back in the day, but I haven't read one of their magazines in decades. I'm surprised it lasted this long.

I had to look that one up because I thought it might be false news. NO, it actually happened. ON that occasion they did not appear in a bikini or USA uniform, but they did appear. It's just like all the non-binary commercials on TV. Do you still believe that we do not need a new presidential candidate! As we used to say in the 1970s, "YOU MUST BE HIGH."

There is so much good left in our world, do we have to trample it?

They've put trans people in the swimsuit issue since then, even one on the cover. That was just the start.

Jonathan Gault feeling pretty good about his career choices. Chris Chavez too