This has probably flown under the radar for many, but Sports Illustrated will be making some major changes in 2018.
The weekly sports magazine, born in 1954, will begin bi-weekly publication with the Jan. 15th issue. Among reasons given by the editors was "many subscribers that it's difficult to keep up with a weekly magazine...that you wouldn't mind more time to absorb each issue."
I can agree with that logic. Pressed for time, I've often been two or three issues behind. That's because the sports journalism in this magazine is so outstanding; it takes time to read and appreciate. I've been enjoying SI since the late 1960's, and have been a subscriber longer than I can recall. And as long as that level of quality continues, I'll stick around.
Although it may be time for the organization to put retire their vaunted swimsuit edition -- heck, when they started that feature, it was always folded into a regular issue. Over the years, it grew into a stand-alone issue. For several issues before hand, a notice on the letters page let's subscribers know they can opt-out of the swimsuit issue and not receive. To be honest, some of the most entertaining letters are those SI publishes for a couple weeks AFTER the swimsuit issue, when readers seem surprised to have received it.
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