ESPN Magazine Subscription
The Magazine for the NEXT generation of sports fans with emphasis on the personality, lifestyle & off–the-field activities of today’s newsworthy &up-and-coming athletes. All delivered with insights, humor, cutting edge design and in-your-face photography.
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The Magazine for the NEXT generation of sports fans with emphasis on the personality, lifestyle & off–the-field activities of today’s newsworthy &up-and-coming athletes. All delivered with insights, humor, cutting edge design and in-your-face photography.
I am a very avid sports fan and voracious magazine reader as well as a long-time (well, 5 year) subscriber to Sports Illustrated. About two years ago I picked up a copy of ESPN the Magazine, and I immediately subscribed–and now I am not going to re-subscribe to SI. ESPN is a much better magazine for one simple reason: SI tends contain mainly articles simply re-hashing the week’s sporting events, but ESPN does not have any articles like that. I like ESPN way more because in this age of 50 million sports channels and super-fast information access, by the time SI gets to my mailbox I have either already watched all of the events I was interested it or read about them online, so why do I want to read an article telling me what I already know? ESPN focuses on providing unique perspectives from a player or owner or team or fan or whatever, not just running down what was already covered on SportsCenter! Plus, the writing style is geared more to my age group (26) than the stodgier style of Sports Illustrated.
Oh, and don’t be put off by ESPN the Mag’s large size. This was the main reason I didn’t buy it when it first came out, but I got used to the larger format very quickly. It really is no big deal!
