Jul 312013
Sports Illustrated (1-year auto-renewal)
Sports Illustrated brings you spectacular action photography and in-depth coverage. With Sports Illustrated, you get into it!Sports Illustrated Magazine is one of the leading sports magazines in the world. Every issue features a wide range of sports-related articles and photographs, including columns written by the leading sports analysts and announcers. From previews of upcoming seasons to articles detailing the world behind the scenes, Sports Illustrated Magazine offers a one-of-a-kind look at
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“You’re still the one . . .”,
True story. I was a little kid, real little, and I picked up the very first copy of SI from my Dad’s pile of newspapers, magazines and junk mail that Mom would throw out over the weekend. I saved it, and saved the rest of the weekly SI issues. Eventually my horde became too large for a small bedroom and I was stuck with saving one or two a month. You know that was a tough selection. Knicks yes; Mets no; Giants always. Teaches a young boy to be discriminating. I didn’t have baseball cards in my Schwinn Racer. I HAD 250 ISSUES OF THE BEST SPORTS PICS IN HISTORY IN MY CLOSET.
Years pass. The boy becomes a man at least insofar as Draft Board #1 in Smithtown Long Island believes, and Mildred Yarusso sends me a ticket for my all expense paid tour of Vietnam. A year later, I return. So my life is a little chaotic, as one might expect, a little mecurial, a little off balance, a little noisy. You guys know what I’m talking about.
But one Christmas maybe that year, maybe the following year, I’m in my old bedroom. And I look in my closet, remembering that therein lay a fortune in pics of Floyd Patterson, a snarling Cassius Clay, Joe D (that’s Dimagio, not Dumars), Willy, Roy C and, THEY’RE GONE. Mom, I yell, where are my SI’s? “Oh, Larry,” comes the response from downstairs, “they were so old I threw them out.”
Well, it’s OK. I mean Hell, all in all, I came out OK. But I still love the magazine. It still has the best writing around, Zimmermann, Reilly . . . the recent article on Jermaine Ewell by Jon Wertheim brought tears to my eyes. Only SI can do that . . . well, yeah, and the Red Sox losing. The sections, Faces in the Crowd, the Inside Sports columns. Like my brothers say, ‘it’s all good.’ I look forward to the next 50. Oh. Yeah. The Swimsuit issue. What’s the big deal? Who writes these anti-SI letters every year? Do you live in a cave? 5 Stars. Larry Scantlebury
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First magazine showed up about a month after order date. Price was the best I have ever found. Happy with subscription.
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|You overlapped my current subscription,
You overlapped on my present Sports Illustrated which expires the end of this month, July, 2013…you were supposed
to add it on beginning in August. Now I am getting two sports illustrated, and will only get 5 more months instead of 6..
Can you extend the extra month. Please advise
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