Romenesko

The Big Lead
Sports journalist John Feinstein gives Rick Reilly credit for admitting that money is one of the reasons he's moving to ESPN, "but to me, as a writer, leaving Sports Illustrated for ESPN the so-called mag is like leaving The Four Seasons to check into a Hampton Inn." He adds that ESPN "would like to wipe all other media entities off the face of the earth and control the entire sports world ...[but SI] is too established and still too good to ever just go away."