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| Publisher: ESPN, Inc.
List Price: $129.74
Buy New: $14.97
You Save: $114.77 (88%)
Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 21
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 26
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 26
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00007AX0N
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 11-15 of 61
 Excellent but....... January 29, 2003
Enrique Torres (San Diegotitlan, Califas)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am(was) a charter subsciber to ESPN magazine and loved it for the information and terrific BIG photographs. I only recently let my subscription expire because I couldn't keep up and found myself reading only a couple of sections. It is a pretty BIG magazine with lots and lots of sports information.Having much more edge than its competitor, SI, this magazine takes work to get into, especially if you are from the baby boomer generation or older. The layout is ,well , out there, somewhere between hep(I know people don't say that anymore) and outright spacey. The visual layout is herky jerky much like those edgy camera shots that conform to the principle that there are no rules. The layout does take some getting used to but once you've adjusted the articles are pretty good. Another problem I found with the magazine(most news mags) is that reading about last weeks major sports event is a little anti-climatic after a week long media campaign. They do give you a different angle but by this time you may have had enough about last weeks big event. It also takes alot of time to keep up with issues, they just keep coming and there is (too) much to read. Some of the best featurers are Dan Patricks Outtakes which can be hilarious and In the Crosshairs where they breakdown a player and his equipment. If you have the time this is probably the finest muti-sports magazine around, so, throw out your SI subscription and get into all your favorite ESPN talking heads in print form. Besides,they will probably send you one of those ESPN The Magazine logoed sweatshirts or something.
 ESPN: Stick with the Network, Ditch the Magazine October 28, 2004
Bryan Carey (Houston, TX)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Sports publications seem like a dime a dozen, and in the case of ESPN magazine, this fact is true almost in the literal sense. This magazine is one of the least expensive on the market and this fact alone might make it seem tempting to purchase.
Before you act too quickly, however, you should know that ESPN magazine is not one of the better sports publications available. For starters, the magazine's dimensions are a little too large, making it seem more like a newspaper than a magazine. Second, the paper quality is poor. It is similar to a newspaper, but maybe one step above, which isn't saying much. The binding of this magazine is bad, too, with three staples holding each issue together.
These physical characteristics are annoying, but what's even worse with ESPN magazine is the articles themselves. There is little cohesiveness among the different sections of this magazine and the articles themselves are usually simplistic in nature and don't really offer any form of intellectual discussion. They point out a few facts about a popular sports personality, make a casual mention about his/her family and goals, along with a few other bits of fluff, and then end right there. There is nothing stimulating at all to the majority of the articles.
ESPN is a good network, and I watch its programming with a good degree of loyalty. But the people at ESPN really need to make some improvements to this magazine. It's the type of magazine that you toss aside after skimming through a few pages. There just isn't enough here to keep one's interest for very long.
 Keep the mag...just give me ESPN Insider December 22, 2007
Benjamin Lee (San Jose, CA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Like a previous reviewer, I subscribed to this magazine solely for the access to ESPN Insider. Instead of paying $6.99/month for Insider, $14.99 gets me a year of ESPN Insider, along with a year of the magazine. As for the magazine itself, it's sort of a high-energy, exciting, layout-filled sports page. The tone of it is far from serious, as it is filled with jokes and sarcasm (not necessarily a bad thing.) But if you're looking for a well-written magazine with insightful articles, stick to Sports Illustrated. If you simply want a colorful magazine filled with cool sports information (and your ESPN Insider access), go ahead and get this. I did, and I look forward to renewing it in a few months. In fact, just for the ESPN Insider, I'm raising my rating from three to four stars.
Excellent Sports Coverage November 10, 2001
Jesper Warren (Eugene, Oregon, United States of America)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am already a subscriber to Sports Illustrated, so I was a little reluctant to receive another sports magazine. I must say that ESPN the Magazine is awesome! If you like the personalities on ESPN's Sportscenter, then this is for you! (If you're looking for serious just-the-facts sports, then check out S.I.) Every two weeks, ESPN has great articles and commentary. The magazine is extra-large in size, so you get some really cool looking full-page pictures. There are also many regular features (almost like "Scorecard" or "leadingOff" in S.I.) including the week's top ten and my personal favorite, Monologue. ESPN has done a great job putting together their own magazine. Subscribe today!
Not Quite a Major League Prospect March 28, 2003
paperbackriter (USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
More a human interest magazine than a gritty sports log, ESPN the magazine is big and flashy, yet somehow falls a little short on substance. Boasting a glossy in-your-face layout interspersed with a seemingly endless array of full-page ads, the publication suffers an acute case of Sportscenter-itis. In other words, it attempts to capture the humor and substance of ESPN's flagship news program. The one ingredient missing from the formula, however, is timeliness. There's just no way for a periodical to compete with the up to the minute reporting of cable television. Therefore, the focus of ESPN the magazine leans toward that of feature articles.The features, while generally well-written, often read like puff pieces which pump up the reputation of the latest flash-in-the-pan "superstar". While the occasional in-depth story pops up from time to time, the majority leave the reader hungry for more. Overall, the quality of the features and photos falls a little short of the standard set by Sports Illustrated. If it's statistics you want, you'll be better off sticking with Sports Weekly (formerly Baseball Weekly). Basically, ESPN the magazine is pleasant, disposable entertainment. If you want depth, however, you'll have to look elsewhere.
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