Soccernet is out; SI.com is in

by Steve Davis on Mar 16, 2010 10:14 AM EDT Comment 11 comments

Just like Weezy Jefferson ... movin' on up!

There’s a lot of movement these days in our little niche market of U.S. soccer writers. Scribes (and editors, too) are scurrying about like roaches when the lights flick on, in fact.

So you might need to sleuth around a bit to locate your favorite writer, editor or blogger right now. As for yours truly, you’ll no longer find my work at ESPN Soccernet. Rather, the folks over at SI.com asked me to pick up my pens and pencils and wander over to their site. I was thrilled to oblige.

I’ll mostly be covering MLS, perhaps occasionally sticking my journalistic oars into international waters. (I’ll also continue to write for the MLSnet site and for this site, of course.) My first piece at SI.com went up yesterday.

The move from Soccernet wasn’t a difficult call. You needed a CSI techie to find MLS articles these days over at Soccernet now, not just my own, but those written by esteemed former ESPN colleague Jeff Carlisle. Ives Galarcep moved over to FoxSoccer.com earlier this year. New management is in charge at Soccernet, and I don’t get the feeling that MLS is a big part of the plan going forward.

There is some other shifting, zigging and zagging in the domestic soccer journo world. As I know that much yawning will greet that news, I won’t beat down the audience with particulars. But more good stuff is on the way; it will benefit readers and supporters as the options expand. There will be more folks talking and squawking soccer on ever increasing and improving platforms. That can’t be a bad thing.

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Old News

If the articles on soccernet were milk you’d have thrown them out 6 weeks ago. Demarcus Beasley has probably logged 5,000 miles on his new car, yet when I jump on soccernet for some tasty soccer nuggets, I’m reminded his old one burned on February 3rd.

Meet you at SI.com

by Azzurri11 on Mar 16, 2010 10:31 AM EDT reply actions

TV

Nothing is constant but change, I suppose. I’ll be looking for your pieces on SI. Does this mean we will see fewer soccer games on ESPN? More international and less MLS? Or does this just impact the internet site?

by Mark_B on Mar 16, 2010 10:32 AM EDT reply actions

I think ESPN ...

… is pretty committed to its TV partnerships with soccer. The internet site is committed, too, just perhaps not to U.S. soccer happenings

by Steve Davis on Mar 16, 2010 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions

Sounds like a good thing, Congratulations.

I read Si.coms soccer pages more regularly than ESPN, so that’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned. I find myself tending to run a few days behind reading either though, since I often have a game or two recorded on the DVR that I don’t want to spoil for myself.

Los Angeles is like Manchester. There is a red team that wins championships and a blue team that doesn't.

by oc phil on Mar 16, 2010 11:27 AM EDT reply actions

Suggestion

I know this probably isn’t your expertise, but you might want to put in a good word to your new bosses as SI.com about RSS feeds. The one attached to your story gives you a generic SI feed. It would be great if we could get one specifically designed for your stuff.

by Jeremiah Oshan on Mar 16, 2010 12:34 PM EDT reply actions