Because It Never Gets Old
From the June 27, 1994 issue of The Sporting News comes this story on the new soccer league that would start up less than two years later.
Yeah, loud wrong.
Tags: great predictions, MLS, pointing out the inadequacies of others, soccer
June 27th, 2012 at 11:46 am
The Nye Lavelle’s of the world have finally shut up. Now if THIS generation of sad, tired, bloviating sports columnists would just retire:
http://www.indystar.com/article/20100706/SPORTS15/7040380/Where-soccer-really-matters
If that rant sounds familiar, it’s because Kravitz’s is just reading off the same script that all sports columnists use; they rarely write anything original. And they never say an intellectual word about soccer (in their defense, they never say an intellectual word about anything).
Soccer is just one of many reasons newspapers are laying people off, reducing the number of publication days, losing money, losing readership, and going bankrupt — whatever your interest, you can find deeper, quicker, and more thoughtful coverage elsewhere.
June 27th, 2012 at 11:48 am
I didn’t mean to say soccer was the reason for print news media’s decline. But that it is a microcosm of the problems.
June 27th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Nice find. Was that the only mention of the WC in the Sporting News? My grandfather was a longtime subscriber and I cannot recall anything soccer-related from that summer’s issues. SI was where to go for my World Cup needs.
Something tells me that article wouldn’t have been worth signing up for the Indy Star’s paid archive…
June 27th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
I can’t access the article, either (though I remember reading the drivel when it was published). But the video says it all.
June 27th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
The Sporting News ignored the World Cup as a competition that summer. The only other thing they ran was a poll showing that most Americans had no idea it was going on or were indifferent to it.
That was the extent of the coverage from The Sporting News, The Sports Bible.
June 28th, 2012 at 1:58 am
Mr. Lavalle’s wiki page has a nice little section about this quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nye_Lavalle