How did Jim Heckman end up running Sports Illustrated?

RaceBannon

Sports Illustrated fires star writer for 'incomprehensible, me-first' behavior during coronavirus pandemic

https://www.foxnews.com/media/sports-illustrated-fires-star-writer-for-incomprehensible-me-first-behavior-during-coronavirus-pandemic


Sad to see how far SI has fallen.

1to392831weretaken

Things I learned today: Sports Illustrated still exists.

creepycoug

Me too. I stopped paying attention to it years ago. Once DeFord's obscure and intellectual pieces started to take more and more space, it became a hard pass for me.

DerekJohnson

I can tell you guys from first-hand experience that Heckman is an arrogant and two-faced fuckstick.

creepycoug

DerekJohnson said:

I can tell you guys from first-hand experience that Heckman is an arrogant and two-faced fuckstick.

If I've heard 20 things about him from people who've had bidness dealings, 19 were extremely negative, and the other one was was lukewarm,

I really have heard a lot of bad shit about him.

1to392831weretaken

Who the hell is Heckman?

Baseman

creepycoug said:

Me too. I stopped paying attention to it years ago. Once DeFord's obscure and intellectual pieces started to take more and more space, it became a hard pass for me.

Deford is Tom Renaldi with a pen

PurpleThrobber

1to392831weretaken said:

Who the hell is Heckman?

He is an arrogant and two-faced fuckstick.

Baseman

Jenny James. Sigh

Quietcowskee

1to392831weretaken said:

Who the hell is Heckman?

Heckman was the narrator of some old VHS crootin tapes.

dannarc

Should we be sending this Heckman guy a chinvitation?

OKG

RoadDawg55

Heckman seems to have had quite the career. He owned scout, sold it for 30-40 mil, then bought it back for 10 million later. Now he’s running SI. How did he initially get all this money? Family?

DerekJohnson

I remember one time, I interviewed Vince Weathersby and wrote an article for Dawgman. They posted the story at about midnight. At 7:30a.m. I got a call from Kim Grinolds. "DeeeeJaaaay... How ya doin'?" Kim went on to tell me that they had to take down the article. I asked why. Kim said because Heckman doesn't like it. I asked who was running Dawgman. Kim said something like he was in control but wanted to show respect to Heckman. So I asked/insisted that I speak to Heckman.

Heckman called me from a vacation home, I want to say it was on Bainbridge Island? He explained that Weathersby had betrayed him and the football program and he didn't want to give him a platform to talk. I told him that I thought it was a meaningful and balanced article. He said sorry but he didn't want it running on his network. And that was that.

Afterwards, I had people telling me that Heckman was running his mouth about what a jerk I was, etc.

GreenRiverGatorz

You mean to tell me that a guy who poses for these kinds of photos is an insufferable douche bag?

PurpleThrobber

creepycoug said:

DerekJohnson said:

I can tell you guys from first-hand experience that Heckman is an arrogant and two-faced fuckstick.

If I've heard 20 things about him from people who've had bidness dealings, 19 were extremely negative, and the other one was was lukewarm,

I really have heard a lot of bad shit about him.

He's rich, bitch.

Hate the game, not the player.

(he's still probably a dick. don't twist)

PurpleThrobber

RoadDawg55 said:

Heckman seems to have had quite the career. He owned scout, sold it for 30-40 mil, then bought it back for 10 million later. Now he’s running SI. How did he initially get all this money? Family?

Yahoo bought Rivals. Which isn't any reflection on Jim Heckman's business acumen - because Yahoo bought a lot of shit companies and tried to cobble them together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivals.com

PurpleThrobber

GreenRiverGatorz said:

You mean to tell me that a guy who poses for these kinds of photos is an insufferable douche bag?

Very Weinstein-esque.

Miley_Cyrus

Grant Wahl sucks too. They both suck.

Alexis

Heckman was a douche back in college also. Was in the Greek system at the same time as he was and lived next door to him. Not many people liked him then either.

creepycoug

PurpleThrobber said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Heckman seems to have had quite the career. He owned scout, sold it for 30-40 mil, then bought it back for 10 million later. Now he’s running SI. How did he initially get all this money? Family?

Yahoo bought Rivals. Which isn't any reflection on Jim Heckman's business acumen - because Yahoo bought a lot of shit companies and tried to cobble them together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivals.com

True. Functional retards could get seed funding from venture capital back in those days. I'm not kidding. I should have dropped the law, come up with some stupid idea, and pulled investment money and sold the company 6 mos. later. It seriously would have had a high probability of happening.

Nobody said capitalism was perfect. As long as human beings are involved.

RaceBannon

My mom got me a subscription in grade school in the 60's so I would read something.

SI was the bible. Manhattan east coast Ivy league Time Life Cadillac franchise. Some of the best sports writing ever

Now reduced to another platform run by idiots