Comments on: The SI Ship Be Sinkin’: Mike Silver Leaves for Yahoo Sports

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:21:59 +0000

WTF? Silver was up for that ESPN gig but I heard he wanted too much cash and the guys the Magazine has are already doing better stuff. David Flemming and Seth Wickershem are two of the best. If you actually read the features in that magazine they’re usually ten times better than stories in SI, save for the rare Gary Smith piece. Jst my opinion.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:30:50 +0000

Ironically, FanNation was really just a collection of blogs before the purchase, not really message boards (though they are buried on the site but not used much). So I guess SI was following your advice after all.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:31:20 +0000

It’s a bit of a reach to compare Sterger’s “here’s what I’m doing this week” columns to anything else on SI.com. It is what it is, for better or worse and I think we’re all leaning towards the latter no matter how many hits it gets. I’m not a huge Markazi fans but his Boise State piece after the Fiesta Bowl and open letter to Jon Lester were two of the better pieces I’ve read on the site. Too bad most of his other stories are wasted at whatever open bar party he’s covering.

By: Mc G Hater

Mc G Hater — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:06:57 +0000

Mc G, you are an idiot. You may not like Steve Rushin and he may have lost his fastball but to claim he’s not talented is among the more inane ever. The guy’s won National Magazine writing awards while you have a headline on your site that reads “If there is Fluff on the Muff, she is old Enough.”

The addition of Silver makes Yahoo! a major football player. Cole and Robinson are solid and you just added a guy who wrote every SI Super Bowl story in the 2000s. Nice move, Yahoo!

By: forerunner

forerunner — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:44:16 +0000

Paul Zimmerman is a smelly old crotch. This clown should be known as Dr. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. How funny were those car commercials with a guy who calls himself Dr. Z and has never even acknowldeged that this schnook at SI even existed? Shows you the impact this fraud has had…….

By: gonzoman

gonzoman — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:36:13 +0000

Losing Franz Lidz was like passing a kidney stone.This guy leaving was a loss to SI?????? Are you wacko?………..

By: Will

Will — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:40:57 +0000

Writing that you don’t care about pop culture on a sports blog like the big lead makes as much sense as writing that you don’t care about Boston sports after a Simmons column. If you want straight news with no pop culture references or bikini pictures stick to the sports wire and the agate page. Markazi is no wordsmith, in fact I would probably hire a copy editor to sift through his copy full time, but he does what he does (cover the sports/celebrity party scene?) well. Page 2 even hired some guy recently to do basically the same thing he does out in LA, so it must be working. Although I must admit I was never a big fan of that Page 3/ESPN Hollywood kind of journalism.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:29:16 +0000

Word Dave. I don’t understand why people get all stoked on T&A pics on sports sites. There’s hardcore nudity everywhere on the net, go find it.

By: tenjay

tenjay — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:31:16 +0000

anybody else think si’s print offering is slipping? the first 30-40% of the magazine seems to be the short article/online content that i used to associate with the espn the magazine. there seem to be fewer quality articles in si these days.

By: glassyarddog

glassyarddog — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:08:30 +0000

I’ll miss Silver at SI.com. Mike is one of the writer’s I actively look for on the site.

That said, I do like their other writer’s more than espn.com’s. Heyman, Banks, King and Z are damn good in their respective areas.

Silver’s hip take on the NFL and life in general will be missed at si.com.