Wow. Even though I never really read TSN much, it is still kind of sad to see a publication that old close it's doors. Just a sign of the times I suppose seeing as how Borders Books store (an Ann Arbor based company) closed it's doors last year and now the print magazines are starting to go by the wayside.
Misleading title. The TSN
Anything "published" online
Anything "published" online is not going to be as good as a magazine that is scrutinized by an editor. How was they even going to make money if people do not have to pay a subscription fee and they do not sell anything? Why would they partner with America Online? I finally had to cancel my contract with them, the internet was just getting slower and slower, especially since I moved. I don't know if AOL does not have an office in Florida, but it is much slower.
~Herm
Stop the uniform changes! Contact Dave Brandon 734-764-9416.
Oh Herm
Oh Herm
Wow . . . Herm is AWESOME!!!
This post is a HALL OF FAME post. Everything about it is brilliant. Genius!!!
I want to worship at the alter of Herm.
Herm, please impregnate my girlfriend. I want to raise the son of God.
Judging by your picture, you
Judging by your picture, you don't have a girlfriend.
It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
If only you were real...
If only you were real...
See it through.
Herm - 1 AOL-0
Herm - 1 AOL-0
Lol ok grandpa. Even my
Lol ok grandpa. Even my 70year old parents have an ipad and a nook.
...
You should respect Herm, damnit. He didn't fight the Nazi's so you could give your parents ipads for christmas.
If Herm's in the class of
If Herm's in the class of 1961 like his username suggests, he's probably the son of a guy who fought the Nazis. The WWII generation is around 90 years old now.
reply to professor X:
in related news, the severed head of Ted Williams is being cryogenically preserved somewhere in Arizona also. So he's not RIP either.
EDIT: how long do i have to be here to remember how to reply to a post rather than the OP? yeesh.
John Navarre, John Navarre, he is John Navarre
(to the tune of Jingle, Bells)
"how long do i have to be
"how long do i have to be here to remember how to reply to a post rather than the OP?"
Looks like at least one more day.
AOL??
I thought AOL disappeared at the same time 56K modems did.
Yeah...
...I actually think I'm more surprised to learn that AOL is still around.
Think Yahoo
They're a lot like Yahoo now -- a digital media company with free email accounts. They own an array of properties, including MapQuest, Moviefone, TechCrunch, Engadget, Huffington Post. The Sporting News fills a gap in their portfolio -- not quite sure what being "partners" with AOL means, but I'll guess it means AOL will eventually own it, if it doesn't already.
AOL still offers dial-up access, though:
http://get.aol.com/plans/index.php
[Select the "I am a dial-up internet User" button to see the 100% dial-up plans.]
I want my data transmitted
I want my data transmitted through copper wire!
Abort, Retry, Fail?
I got rid
Of AOL the day I got rid of my Tandy.
Denard Robinson......They're not going to catch him!
Circuit City is an "online
Circuit City is an "online retailer" too. Yeah that's working out great. It's a shame. The Sporting News used to be a big deal.
"We've beaten Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
- Mark Dantonio
Blogging the Virginia Cavaliers at http://fromoldvirginia.blogspot.com/<
So is Amazon and soon will
So is Amazon and soon will Best Buy.
Paper is dead, long live electronic.
Paper is hardly dead.
There have actually been ample successful launches in recent years. The difference is that they tend to cater to niche markets and often cost a premium. For example, as long as they keep producing quality content, I'll happily pay extra for something like Treats! or Monocle.
The old idea of a print offering reaching mass appeal, however, does appear to be terminal. Some of it is the result of technology but a lot of their problems have been self-inflicted by gutting their quality in cost saving efforts.
only on mgo can you find a
only on mgo can you find a dude on a football blog who reads Treats!
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing. -- Bo Schembechler
A lot of dead retail chains
A lot of dead retail chains exist online, I'm sure at least some of them are seeing money out of it since Wards, for example, has been doing it online only for a decade.
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing. -- Bo Schembechler
I still have my TSN from
I still have my TSN from right after the Michgian 1997 national championship Rose Bowl game with Charles Woodson on the cover. It is a thing of beauty.
M'Dog
Sad but a sign of the times..
Sporting News vs Sports Illustrated was sort of like hard core sports fan vs wine and cheese sports fan.
"I don’t wanna live in Rainbow Land, and you can’t make me!"
I liked TSN. Those complete
I liked TSN. Those complete MLB team statistics were awesome in the pre-internet age.
I know now we have access to more information than ever, but I feel like we're losing something with print media going away.
TSN fans liked Strat-O-Matic
Now that was fantasy baseball back in the day.
"I don’t wanna live in Rainbow Land, and you can’t make me!"
Not just the MLB statistics,
Not just the MLB statistics, but the minor league stats and box scores. There wasn't a better way to keep up with baseball back then, and I read every issue pretty much cover-to-cover in the 70s and early 80s.
We were an Avalon Hill (the SI games) and APBA crowd though--didn't play Strat except for hockey.
Never thought their football previews were too kind to Michigan.
They seemed to have an Ohio bent. They're the ones that printed the "M stands for Mediocre" article back in 1997. Still sad to see an institution go by the wayside in changing times.
"I love him, he's a great coach, he's a great mentor, he's a great friend. He's every single thing you want a college coach to be, and he does it flawlessly." -David Molk
I dunno. Some happy day in
I dunno. Some happy day in the not too distant future there will be a similar thread created announcing that the Detroit Free Press has shuttered its doors and ceased publication. That's one institution I will not miss at all.
And like all print media it's day is coming. Soon.
I loved their college
I loved their college football preview magazines back in the early and mid 90's.
(No subject)
5 4 3 2 1 Touchdown!
Touchdown Billy Taylor!
Touchdown Billy Taylor!
It's going to suck when all
It's going to suck when all magazines and newspapers are online
"Ohio is like a giant turd that Michigan just can't pinch off"
No it won't. The only people
No it won't. The only people who actually believe that are people like Herm. I personally have not used a paper publication in years. Why should I when I have an ipad.
Paper/print is expensive and wasteful.
And what happens when
And what happens when technology fails?
I just don't like relying for a computer doing everything. Because if those things malfunction, everyone is SOL.
When the ADept sells special jerseys and gear, you'll see my picture next to the targeted customer crowd. A sheep.....but a Blue one.....
We start living like Doomsday
We start living like Doomsday preparers. Speaking of, I need to stock up my underground bunker for the coming robot apocalypse. There is no way they are going to plug me into the matrix.
Doomsday Preparers
Gotta love 'em. Are you more an axe thrower, or throwing star aficionado?
Larry
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV
I used to have subscriptions
I used to have subscriptions to Sporting News, SI, and ESPN the magazine all at once. Then the internets tooks over. The Sporting News was a real good magazine. I feel bad for ditching them now.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
- Vince Lombardi
It's just not very efficient.
It's just not very efficient. I got that magazine deal for ESPN for $9 for 2 years posted on here and I know that physical copy is going straight to the trash. I only got it for free insider. Print is gone by the wayside. I get there's a little bit of nostalgia involved but meh. I love being able to take my tablet on trips and having books, magazines, movies, musics and games all on one small device. I have endless entertainment options as opposed to having pick and choose what I want to bring.
But what happens when the AOL
But what happens when the AOL goes out? That's when you'll regret not having your satchel full of gazettes.
~Herm
And he didn't even begin to
And he didn't even begin to talk about what happens when Skynet enters the picture ... whhhhooa buddy
What happens when Skynet's
What happens when Skynet's stock price plummets? Then they will have to switch to a new, cheap power source. One that is organic and self-sustaining. OMG, we are headed towards the Matrix.
How about a planet of cows
How about a planet of cows floating in jelly instead of people? Easier to feed, easier to run the matrix, and unlikely to attempt escape or threaten their masters.
/Occam's Razor'd
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Johan Gutenberg is sad.
Johan Gutenberg is sad.
Follow me @ The Business of Educating
Boy, you weren't kidding:
Boy, you weren't kidding:
LOL good one. Gutenberg is
LOL good one. Gutenberg is seriously one of the more underrated scientific minds in history. Doubtful though. He was a man of science and progress like other Enligtenment thinkers [though he probably pre-dates what most of us think of as the Enlightenment era]. They didn't spend their time yearning for the past but looked ahead.
Gutenberg lived a couple of
Gutenberg lived a couple of centuries before the Enlightenment. He was part of the Renaissance.
I'm not sure if he's really underrated. A lot of people recognize that the invention of the printing press brought about a huge transformation in the way people communicated.
While Ada Lovelace is smiling
While Ada Lovelace is smiling
How amusing...
...to see a number of people on here claim that "print is dead" yet wasn't this the same website that just this year managed to raise more than twice their goal in a fundraising effort to produce a print magazine/book called Hail To The Victors?
I'll re-iterate my earlier point, print is by no means dead. In fact, there is a lot of opportunity right now if you produce quality content. What is dying is profit driven, corporately produced shit, like the Fr**p, that lack any worthwhile content. This is a good trend but it by no means implies that the print medium is finished.
Nothing like taking a book or magazine
to the crapper! I use an Ipad and Kindle but it can't replace print for my money. Still sad about Sporting News : (
"I don’t wanna live in Rainbow Land, and you can’t make me!"
From The Yahoo! Piece...
From the Yahoo! article -
"TSN will still publish its college football yearbook, as well as yearbooks for NFL, baseball, college basketball, fantasy football and fantasy baseball, and the usual TSN content will be online. We wish the best for The Sporting News in its all-digital age."
I admit that I do like the printed yearbooks and have collected these for a long time, and this seems to indicate that these at least might still be around. Still, it is a bit of a shame that yet another magazine is leaving the increasingly bare physical newsstands of the world, especially one like "The Sporting News".
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
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Misleading title. The TSN will continue as an online only periodical through its AOL partnership.
Don't get out the bagpipes quite yet, however. The Sporting News will continue as an all-digital brand with its AOL-partnered website, as well as its iPad and Android apps.