No. 175: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED R.I.P. II / Pathetically trying to groom the next generation of readers who'll never buy a copy of the magazine.

Yesterday I wrote about the failures of the executives at the "institution" that boasted sportswriting's best and brightest. Here they gave young readers no credit.

Minding my own business and trying to catch up on world affairs the other day, I scrolled through the news stories curated by Apple News. With a pretty affordable monthly charge, Apple News is a handy, dandy way to keep up on the headlines of major media outlets without a full subscription to each and every one. Yeah, I’ve kept up my nytimes.com subscription and with it I can access The Athletic. I’ve let my Rolling Stone subscription slide—it’s a shame that the outfit hasn’t properly archived its past issues and really a lot of its . Ditto my subscriptions to the Atlantic and the New Yorker—I pick up a hard copy of it at the library when I drop by a couple of times a week and I’ve bought copies of significant issues at Chapters when I’ve had a train ride on the schedule. But really, I do well just to make it through the Times and Apple News.