Sports Illustrated staffers react to AI content coverup: ‘Antithetical to everything SI should stand for’
"This report was horrifying to read."
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Sports Illustrated reportedly published AI-generated articles by fake writers
"The content is absolutely AI-generated. No matter how much they say that it's not."
Bleav, Sports Illustrated Media Group partner on ‘Bleav FanNation’ editorial hub
"It’s so great to hear, see, and read all of our amazing talent's commentary on the day's sports and entertainment topics."
‘Mighty Ducks’ child actor suing Sports Illustrated publisher for potential control of company
“The company is not in a position to settle this."
Bill Simmons: ESPN ‘way late’ to gambling boom, ‘they’ve handled it badly’
"They should have bought DraftKings. They should have been on the ground floor."
Sports Illustrated Browns site runs story based on fake Baker Mayfield quote (UPDATED)
"No way this got published."
Albert Breer asks if man sitting next to Taylor Swift who clearly isn’t Dennis Rodman is Dennis Rodman
"Not even a little bit close."
Sports Illustrated’s first college town resort is coming to Tuscaloosa
Which college town will Sports Illustrated Resorts come to next?
Majority stake in Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group reportedly sold to 5 Hour Energy founder
Sports Illustrated will once again have a new majority owner.
Sports Illustrated names Mark Pesavento executive editor, digital
Pesavento's past work includes time with Yahoo, USA Today, Fox Sports and more.
Ross Dellenger announces he’s leaving Sports Illustrated
"What's next? For now, bourbon."
Group Black reportedly looking to buy Sports Illustrated publishing parent The Arena Group
Group Black has previously been linked to bids for other media companies, but hasn't acquired any outright yet.
Is the media paying enough attention to Luis Arraez? Tom Verducci doesn’t think so
"On the difficulty scale, it's harder than hitting 61 home runs"
Tom Brady says he won’t play again: ‘I’m looking forward to my broadcasting job at Fox’
"I've tried to make that clear and I hate to continue to profess that 'cause I've already told people that lots of times."
Chris Mannix: ‘Frankly, the Nuggets aren’t very interesting’
"The Nuggets' problem is that they're not respected, they're just not talked about."
Stephen A. Smith rebukes Don Lemon while lauding Martha Stewart’s SI Swimsuit cover: ‘There is no prime’
"Ladies, none of y’all are beyond your prime. All y’all got it going on."
Sports Illustrated’s bizarre Sauce Gardner cover goes viral
A bottle of sauce would have been just fine.
Jon Wertheim on SI piece on local sports anchors: ‘Life was so good when you were the king in Cincinnati.’
"It just seemed like this was a job that was singularly beaten up on by technology and various trends."
Sports Illustrated lays off 17, announces 12 new openings, shifts in division leadership (updated)
There are 17 layoffs in total here, but 12 new positions posted. There are also shifts in editorial structure.
Medium Rare’s Tatum Mannion talks Super Bowl ‘weekend takeover’ events with Guy Fieri, Gronk, Shaq, and SI
"Most of the events and properties that we put on are really just born out of the idea of creating true joint venture businesses."
Sports Illustrated co-EIC Stephen Cannella talks SI covers’ changes: ‘The importance of the cover has never been higher.’
"What we try to do now with the cover and the magazine in general is be a lot more topical, a lot more thematic, a lot more forward-looking."
Hugh Freeze denies SI report he agreed to turn over social media accounts, but confirms someone else has been running them
Freeze called Pat Forde's SI report "not accurate," but also said "somebody else has been running" his Twitter account over the past few weeks, and there "may be wisdom in" having someone else do that.
Chris Mannix talks SI Celtics cover, late changes after Ime Udoka news: ‘We quite literally had to stop the presses.’
"This was the first time that I've had it finalized and sent out and we've had to go back."
Howard Beck on SI Zion Williamson cover: ‘The interest in him is immense.’
"The guy's still just 22 years old, and in the brief time we've seen him, barely a full season's worth of games over three years, he's been historically dominant, historically efficient as a scorer."
Jon Wertheim talks SI feature on Joe Buck and Troy Aikman: ‘This is just another indication that this stuff really matters.’
"On the one hand, we say 'It doesn't matter who's calling the game, everybody's just watching for the action.' But if that is the case, you're not spending that kind of money."