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<i>SI</i> Swimsuit Is Apparently Phasing Out Those Inconvenient Swimsuits
Sports Illustrated experimented with just what you can put on a supermarket rack without a plastic cover way back in 2015 when the cover of their swimsuit issue featured model Hannah Davis (now Jeter) pulling her bikini bottoms down to her vulva, but have you checked in lately? At this point, the SI...

Iconic Sports Writer Frank Deford Dead At 78
Frank Deford, the legendary sports writer who worked for Sports Illustrated and NPR for decades, died yesterday in his home in Key West. Deford wrote some of Sports Illustrated’s most celebrated profiles, and he began to work as a correspondent for NPR’s Morning Edition in 1980. He retired from the ...

Why Defend Tom Brady's Shady Charity Dealings?
Over the weekend, the Boston Globe published a story about Tom Brady’s dealings with Best Buddies, a nonprofit dedicated to helping intellectually and developmentally disabled people that Brady has lent his time and image to. The Globe discovered that Best Buddies has been making regular payments to...

Sportswriters Whine About Kid Reporter Asking Legitimate Question At Press Conference
In South Carolina coach Frank Martin’s postgame press conference last night, preteen Sports Illustrated Kids reporter Max Bonnstetter asked an interesting and well-formulated question—one that, somehow, upset a handful of “adult” journalists:...

Peter King Got Irate At Bleacher Report Over A Dumb Tom Brady Quote<em></em>
Proprietor of Sports Illustrated’s MMQB and Tom Brady stenographer Peter King had a meltdown yesterday over a tweet from Bleacher Report:...

You Don't Have To Write This Shit If They're Not Paying You To
Over at Sports Illustrated, you can read an article about Tom Brady’s new line of sleepwear for A Company That Makes Stretchy Workout Stuff. The article contains the following lines:...

Nine Elements Of The LeBron <i>SI </i>Cover Meant To Distract You From His Hairline, Ranked
1. Safety pin on the lapel...

<i>Sports Illustrated</i> Formally Announces Retweeting Agreement With Fox Sports, Or Something
Many of you, our readers, are smart, your decision to visit Deadspin notwithstanding. See what you can get out of this blog post by Sports Illustrated managing editor Chris Stone and “Time Inc. Sports Group digital editor” Mark McClusky, hailing the ailing magazine’s, uh, “transformational digital p...

Fox Sports And <i>SI</i> Have No One But Each Other<em></em>
Earlier today, Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports announced a “multiyear advertising and editorial agreement,” as per the Wall Street Journal, an arrangement that can only be read as two listing giants seeking to prop each other up. ...
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Layoffs Hit <i>Sports Illustrated </i>[UPDATED]
Sports Illustrated has laid off a number of staffers, according to multiple sources, as a part of approximately 40 layoffs of editorial staffers across Time Inc. properties, that POLITICO reported began on Thursday. This comes a week after 110 Time Inc. sales and advertising staffers were laid off, ...

<i>SI</i>'s Peter King: I Like To Eat Diarrhea, It's Good, Mmm, Gimme That Hot Diarrhea With Onions
Here is Peter King, a face drawn on the side of Roger Goodell’s hand, telling you two ways that he likes to eat diarrhea. He likes to eat diarrhea on top of spaghetti with onions and cheese, and he likes to eat diarrhea on a hot dog, also with onions, but with no mustard....

Our Long National Nightmare Is Over: <i>Sports Illustrated </i>Redesigned Their Website<em></em>
Sports Illustrated launched a newly redesigned website this morning, and while it’s only been a couple of hours, it seems like you can once again visit SI.com without it turning your computer or phone into a brick. ...


This Rick Reilly Thing Sucks So Much
Last we heard from Rick Reilly, he was retiring to Italy after ESPN finally got tired of him recycling his own material. So what happens when you give an old sportswriter who perfected the art of mailing it in a shot at a Sports Illustrated cover story? You get this pile of shit....

Dog Attends <i>Sports Illustrated </i>Swimsuit Fan Fest
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is out, and while it surely offers 34 revolutionary new angles from which to display underboob, the more interesting development took place at the Fan Fest held in Manhattan today. To be specific, someone noteworthy showed up at the Fan Fest....

Peter King Sounds New Depths Of Stoogery With Open Letter To NFL Players
For all the danger they purport to identify in the world, conspiracy theories, at bottom, are comforting. They’re orderly and symmetrical and closed, like a square dance, matching participants 1:1 to malign intents and thus to culpability. Either you are in the conspiracy by cynical choice and sinis...

The Horse People Are Mad Online
This morning, Sports Illustrated announced that Serena Williams is the magazine’s sportsperson of the year. Williams took home the title despite losing to racehorse American Pharoah in the fan vote, and people who like horses are very mad about this....

Pilot Killed In Crash Wasn't Hired By Eagles Fans To Taunt Cowboys
Despite reports in national media outlets that a banner-carrying plane hired by Philadelphia Eagles fans to taunt the Dallas Cowboys crashed at Compton Airport, killing the pilot, the Los Angeles Times and other Southern California-based sources have confirmed that’s not the case....

Amy Poehler And Seth Meyers Burn <i>SI</i> Writer Who Dislikes Women's Sports
On Monday, Sports Illustrated writer Andy Benoit sent a dumb tweet in which he expressed his disdain for all women’s sports, including the Women’s World Cup. This did not go unnoticed by Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler, who dusted off their great old SNL bit on last night’s episode of Late Night and wen...

Dopey <i>Sports Illustrated</i> Writer: Women's Sports Aren't Worth Watching
Andy Benoit covers the NFL for Sports Illustrated and regularly heads up pro football analysis for MMQB. He also has no time for your stupid Women’s World Cup, or women’s sports in general....