College football gets the last ever Sporting News print cover


The Sporting News announced it is going all digital on Jan. 1, and will no longer print its regular publication after 126 years. And college football graces the last issue of the regular magazine, which should be a collector's item

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-s...ncaaf.html

I will no longer have anything to read while in the waiting room at my dentist's office.

Newsweek is doing the same thing. I mentioned this in another thread at that point but my guess for the two most popular magazines these days are Maxim and Game Informer.

BTW, I know it's not their season but the Sporting News should have put baseball on its final cover.

A nice article from a St. Louis based sports writer that captures feelings about TSN here and also goes back to TSN's relatively recent move from the Gateway City to Charlotte

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/...2dfd3.html

(12-11-2012 08:59 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  I will no longer have anything to read while in the waiting room at my dentist's office.

I haven't been in a dentist's office in years where everyone isn't busy non-stop texting.

Print is dead. Anything still left at this moment is just the death echo.

(12-11-2012 09:07 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Newsweek is doing the same thing. I mentioned this in another thread at that point but my guess for the two most popular magazines these days are Maxim and Game Informer.

The reading public cares less about real news & wants fantasy, romance, or diet/food books. Women make up around 80% of the reading public.
Tabloid mags like People, Nat'l Esquire, Star, & others are stilll very popular.
& publish something like 4-5 million mags each week.

Most magazines survive with subscriptions in the low 100,000's. Most popular comics publish around 25K to 50K an issue per month depending on the popularity of the character. But nothing like good 'ol Mad magazine. Owned by DC comics now, they even have a web site, What me Worry?
http://www.madmagazine.com/

I have never in my life seen such an ugly cover.

(12-11-2012 10:17 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Print is dead. Anything still left at this moment is just the death echo.

I read my SI subscription on my iPad more than I read the actual physical copy. I usually put it on one of the coffee tables the into one of the bathrooms until my wife throws them away.

Sucks, I always thought Sporting News was above its competition.

(12-11-2012 09:31 PM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 08:59 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  I will no longer have anything to read while in the waiting room at my dentist's office.

I haven't been in a dentist's office in years where everyone isn't busy non-stop texting.

I know...Annoying, isn't it? That is all you see these days, people with their noses buried in a phone, really kinda of sad. I can remember getting hand written letters from my Grandmother once a month when I was a child and the writing her back. I can not even remember the last time I received or sent a hand written letter...I may just have to sit down and pen a letter to some of my family members this Holiday season...it will probably blow their minds.

(12-11-2012 09:15 PM)CalallenStang Wrote:  A nice article from a St. Louis based sports writer that captures feelings about TSN here and also goes back to TSN's relatively recent move from the Gateway City to Charlotte

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/...2dfd3.html

I grew up in metro St. Louis. The Sporting News came to my house every Thursday for most of childhood.

In the pre-Internet (and even USA Today) era - The Sporting News was the go to product for the hard core fans. It was the only real place to get detailed stats, full box scores, minor league stats/coverage, etc.

Kind of sad - but TSN has clearly gone the way of the horse and buggy.

How is it dead??? its just progressing into a new era. Its not like its not going to exist anymore.

Used to LOVE TSN when it was a newspaper fold magazine. Fly's Spies was awesome. Of course back then conferences were about geography.

Nothing ever stays the same.

You either move with the times or get left behind. TSN has moved with the times. I'll definitely support them over a certain Report that shall remain nameless, one that has ruined sports journalism.

I had a subscription for years & would read over & over. When they stoped covering smaller conferences & stuck only to thw bcs teams i dropped the mag.

(12-11-2012 09:07 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Newsweek is doing the same thing. I mentioned this in another thread at that point but my guess for the two most popular magazines these days are Maxim and Game Informer.

BTW, I know it's not their season but the Sporting News should have put baseball on its final cover.

Who the hell cares about baseball?

(12-12-2012 08:25 PM)Fear The Beak Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 09:07 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Newsweek is doing the same thing. I mentioned this in another thread at that point but my guess for the two most popular magazines these days are Maxim and Game Informer.

BTW, I know it's not their season but the Sporting News should have put baseball on its final cover.

Who the hell cares about baseball?

Um...anyone in St. Louis. Or people that grew up in Corpus Christi, the high school baseball capital of America.

Which means that I double-care about baseball.

(12-12-2012 08:25 PM)Fear The Beak Wrote:  

(12-11-2012 09:07 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Newsweek is doing the same thing. I mentioned this in another thread at that point but my guess for the two most popular magazines these days are Maxim and Game Informer.

BTW, I know it's not their season but the Sporting News should have put baseball on its final cover.

Who the hell cares about baseball?

They sold 73,000,000 tickets this year. I guess someone cares.

That sucks now what am I going to read on the pot???