hamm si cover

Discussion in 'Business and Media' started by sregis, Sep 18, 2003.

  1. sregis

    sregis Member

    Nov 5, 1999
    Hoboken, USA
    surely this has been mentioned elsewhere, but i have to give a big pitch for the mia hamm piece in the current si- a remarkable, unconventional bit of writing.
     
  2. roarksown1

    roarksown1 Member

    Mar 30, 2001
    Playa del Rey, CA
    Club:
    Hamburger SV
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Does it cover the folding of the WUSA? I assume the printed article was for hyping up the WWC, and they probably didn't have time to cover the folding of the league. Then again, that's just an assumption. Is it a part of the story or not?
     
  3. sregis

    sregis Member

    Nov 5, 1999
    Hoboken, USA
    i'm sure the article had been written, but they did manage to get the wusa demise in there...it actually worked w/ the running themes.
     
  4. Andy_B

    Andy_B Member+

    Feb 2, 1999
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Here is the cover itself. The local sports talk radio station was talking about the article, in relation to Nomar.

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  5. sregis

    sregis Member

    Nov 5, 1999
    Hoboken, USA
    looks like, and was expecting another conventional profile, but it's anything but.
     
  6. DoyleG

    DoyleG Member+

    CanPL
    Canada
    Jan 11, 2002
    YEG-->YYJ-->YWG-->YYB
    Club:
    FC Edmonton
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    SI CURSE!!!!

    SI CURSE!!!!

    SI CURSE!!!!

    SI CURSE!!!!
     
  7. Treetaliano

    Treetaliano Member

    Jun 29, 2002
    San Diego
    God willing...
     
  8. Wolves_67

    Wolves_67 Member

    Oct 27, 2002
    Pasadena, CA
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Oh well.. At least it came late in her career. :(

    I sure hope we don't see Freddy on the cover until after we win the WC with him. :)
     
  9. RBourd52

    RBourd52 Member

    Jul 23, 1999
    Woodbridge, CT
    Posted this in another thread, but that is the best piece of writing I've seen out of SI in a while, and that is saying something because it is (and has always been) a very well written magazine.

    I get the "Greatest American Sports Writing" anthology every year and I anticipate this will be in it next year.
     
  10. dcajedi

    dcajedi Member

    Jul 16, 2001
    Philadelphia
    i know this is a little out of place but:

    is the WWC preview in this issue or not? i have the 'subscriber's edition' and can't find it (contrary to grant wahl's latest column).
     
  11. NER_MCFC

    NER_MCFC Member

    May 23, 2001
    Cambridge, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Funny, I was thinking exactly the opposite. Phrases like 'sodden sentimentality', 'shamelessly manipulative' and 'dreadfully overwritten' kept bouncing around in my mind. Too bad too, because he obviously did a huge amount of leg work and other preperation. If he's so unwilling to trust his reader to get it, he ought to go into fiction, preferably something with low reader expectations.
     
  12. sregis

    sregis Member

    Nov 5, 1999
    Hoboken, USA
    i thought it a breath of fresh air from the dime-a-dozen athlete-profile junk out there...including at least a dozen i've read on mia hamm in the past 4 years. i predict awards for this one as well.
     
  13. Lloyd Heilbrunn

    Lloyd Heilbrunn Member+

    Feb 11, 2002
    Jupiter, Fl.
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's kind of hidden in a double foldin in Scorecard.

    You might have skipped it thinking it was a foldin advert......
     

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