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RougeUnderoos · 03-18-2008, 02:28 PM

This will be pretty cool.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/bu...Kj2M268kPGCzBA

Sports Illustrated, which faces fierce daily, even hourly, competition with ESPN, Yahoo Sports and others, has something its main rivals do not: a 53-year trove of articles and photos, most of it from an era when the magazine dominated the field of long-form sports writing and color sports photography.
On Thursday, the magazine will introduce the Vault, a free site within SI.com that contains all the words Sports Illustrated has ever published and many of the images, along with video and other material, in a searchable database.

HotHotHeat · 03-18-2008, 02:37 PM

There goes my weekend.

MelBridgeman · 03-18-2008, 02:39 PM

smart move

worth · 03-18-2008, 02:41 PM

SI Swimsuit Edition 1955?

Flash Walken · 03-18-2008, 02:41 PM

Brilliant.

And so very cool.

burnin_vernon · 03-18-2008, 02:43 PM

Would this include "The Year In Pictures"?

Pagal4321 · 03-18-2008, 02:49 PM

And I can see the productivity at work hitting an all time new low.

Sainters7 · 03-18-2008, 03:06 PM

This will help me get over SI losing both Rick Reilly and Steve Rushin last year.

JiriHrdina · 03-18-2008, 04:27 PM

The photos are going to be what makes this cool. I'm not much of a fan of SI - but their photography over the years has set the standard.

GirlySports · 03-18-2008, 04:44 PM

Wonderful!

They had many pictures of the Battle of Alberta in the 80s. I'm looking forward to seeing those again!

Canada 02 · 03-21-2008, 11:27 PM

Great Stuff!

CrusaderPi · 03-21-2008, 11:40 PM

I remember the NHL hot - NBA not cover / article like it was yesterday.

Sort of depressing considering where the NHL has gone since then.

GirlySports · 04-01-2008, 12:29 AM

What a great idea

I found this.

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.c...6993/index.htm

Click on View This Issue and go to page 46 !

Sainters7 · 04-01-2008, 12:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CrusaderPi

I remember the NHL hot - NBA not cover / article like it was yesterday.

Sort of depressing considering where the NHL has gone since then.

Ya the NHL couldn't have had a worse string of events occur just months after that issue was printed. First a lockout, then when the season is finally saved, the New Jersey Devils win the Cup by ushering in the decade-long era of the Trap. Pretty much killed any momentum the NHL had going for it south of the border.

Dion · 04-01-2008, 01:08 AM