That's correct. Just months shy of its 70th Anniversary, SI laid off everyone after failing to pay its licensing fees to the magazine's parent company.
Where I learned of the sad news:
Friday, January 19, 2024
That's a shame.
Print magazines are rapidly becoming dinosaurs, as we all know. Many of the greats, such as The New Republic, Time or Newsweek, aren't what they once were. For that matter, many don't print at all. Newsweek, for instance, does not.
Sic transit glori mundi.
My father subscribed to it. It came to the house, along with Time, Newsweek, People, Life and Look (when there was a Look). After we perused them, they went down to his office. I loved Time and Newsweek (People is trash) and I recall pretty vividly observing South Vietnam's fall as I read them, at 12 years old.
I always looked through Sports Illustrated when I was young, although I think the infamous swimsuit issue, which is and was soft pornography, didn't seem to make an appearance at the house, or the office either.
It was, and is, a great magazine, covering every sport imaginable.
Wyoming teams appeared on the cover more than once.
As an adult, I lost interest in the magazine, although remained a great one when I occasionally viewed it. A college friend of mine took up giving me their swimsuit calendar every year for a while when I was a college student, with the great model of that era being Kathy Ireland, who had the Kate Upton role of her era. Interestingly, both Ireland and Upton are devout Christians (Upton has a cross tattoo on her hand), which given their swimsuit issue role is a bit of a surprise, but perhaps no more than the fact that I had those calendars on my walls during those years, and certainly wouldn't now.
As noted, save for its annual descent into cheesecake, it was a great magazine.
Until now, it appears.
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