Justin Simon article

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Need a subscription(I don't have one) but looks like a really good college basketball site for articles

Old Faces, New Places: Justin Simon hopes to lead revival at St. John's

 
The NY Times had an article on The Athletic a few days ago.

A brief blurb from the article:

"The Athletic is a subscription sports website and app featuring pages of local
articles that roughly replicate newspaper sports sections. It launched in Chicago in
January 2016 and has expanded to full coverage in seven cities, hockey coverage in
eight more, national college basketball and football sites, and plans for more.
Subscribers get access to all of it.

The Athletic is already one of the biggest sports media companies in the
country, with about 65 editorial employees. “Our ambition is to be the local sports
page for every city in the country,” Mather said.

To understand why The Athletic is so brazen about its vulture strategy, one must
appreciate the state of play at local and regional newspapers throughout the country.
Under dire financial duress, many have put extraordinary demands on beat writers
to produce heavy volumes of content, often without wage increases. The reporters
are sometimes the most knowledgeable sources of information on the teams they
cover, but they are afforded little opportunity to step back and write impactful
articles."

 
The NY Times had an article on The Athletic a few days ago.

A brief blurb from the article:

"The Athletic is a subscription sports website and app featuring pages of local
articles that roughly replicate newspaper sports sections. It launched in Chicago in
January 2016 and has expanded to full coverage in seven cities, hockey coverage in
eight more, national college basketball and football sites, and plans for more.
Subscribers get access to all of it.

The Athletic is already one of the biggest sports media companies in the
country, with about 65 editorial employees. “Our ambition is to be the local sports
page for every city in the country,” Mather said.

To understand why The Athletic is so brazen about its vulture strategy, one must
appreciate the state of play at local and regional newspapers throughout the country.
Under dire financial duress, many have put extraordinary demands on beat writers
to produce heavy volumes of content, often without wage increases. The reporters
are sometimes the most knowledgeable sources of information on the teams they
cover, but they are afforded little opportunity to step back and write impactful
articles."

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Sounds like the modern version of "The National" which was pretty great but poorly executed.
 
I'm a big fan of The Athletic. Been a subscriber from its early days, as they made a commitment to hiring talented, entertaining writers. Rather than same-old, same-old sports page blather, they assembled some fresh high-end talent that made it worth the price of the subscription. My concern is that it is growing too rapidly and reverting to the old formula and old familiar names.

As for the SJU story, it's a nice optimistic piece about Simon and the possibility of St. John's being ready to move forward under Mullin. Not much new, but one more voice saying we could take another step this year.
 
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