ESPN Magazine Analysis
The first 15 pages of ESPN: The Magazine attempts to make readers feel like they're a TV audience. The magazine's structure seems to mirror an episode of SportsCenter. The first fifteen pages of the magazine resemble the opening sequence of the TV show, which opens with the broadcasters previewing all the sports news to be covered in the episode and setting the humorous, G-rated locker room tone for the show with snide remarks and pop-culture references. The first 15 pages of ESPN: The Magazine reveal its contents and invite readers into a print version of the ESPN locker room. Before setting the tone for the magazine, the first two pages list the magazine's contents. The first page lists the issue's features and the second tells readers where to go for monthly columns, departments and straight sports coverage of specific leagues. On both content pages, each feature or department has a picture and blurb accompanying it. The photographs - action shots that showcase the athletes' intense concentration or posed shots of the athletes looking tough - are almost always more descriptive than the blurbs. NFL quarterback Steve McNair's scowl and NBA defensive specialist-cum-madman Ron Artest's strong
There is one misplaced page, and that is Bill Simmons' third page humor column, "The Sports Guy." Bill Simmons is one of the best and funniest writers on the ESPN staff, but his column is the only copy in the first 15 pages that has sentences strung together and paragraph structure. It is the only page that has more text than graphics. No matter how good this column is, it disrupts the fast pace of the magazine, which is otherwise firmly upheld by relying on images to tell stories and short blurbs to humorously complement the pictures. Simmons' column seems better suited for the back of the book. Swapping it with the last page in this issue, Dan Patrick's "Outtakes," would be a logical move because Patrick, like Stuart Scott, is a well-known SportsCenter anchor. Patrick's column would serve the dual purpose of giving readers that TV feeling and keeping the pace in these opening 15 pages snappy. man pose tell readers as much about the articles as do the short, written descriptions. The January 2003 issue being the first since the NCAA football national championship game between Ohio State University and the University of Miami, six of the first 15 pages are devoted to the game. Once again the story of th
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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