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By Elise Knutsen 11/15/11 6:26pm

Manhattan Transfers

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Sportswriter Peter King Fumbles at Sutton Place

"It's with heavy hearts that my wife and I leave Boston after 32 very enjoyable months in the city's South End. We're moving to Manhattan. " Sports Illustrated writer Peter King wrote with characteristic drama in his Monday Morning Quarterback column last month. Mr. King and his wife, Ann have indeed settled in New York , and city records show their new roost is located in the glassy new Sutton Place development The Milan.

By the looks of it, football commentating is a decent paying gig (we'll add that to our list of potential career choices right after Rabbi), as the Kings spent $2.55 million on the place at 300 East 55th Street. Read More

By Zeke Turner 8/11/10 12:48am

Stefano Shows Off His Very Own Vanity Project

"I think we should have our salad and then we will go fast through the magazine," said Stefano Tonchi, the editor of W. It was Tuesday afternoon on the fourth floor of 4 Times Square and Mr. Tonchi was wearing a two-button gray suit and an open-collared white shirt. He was showing off his newly Read More

By Franz Lidz 1:59am

‘Great to See Ya’: How I Got the Last Interview With the Boss

George Steinbrenner's signature was barely dry on the New York Yankees bill of sale when I mailed him a letter asking for a job. I was a 21-year-old senior at Antioch College and an unreconstructed wiseass. I wrote George that I had what it took to be a great public-relations man: "A flamboyant wit, flashing Read More

By Zeke Turner 6/24/10 4:51pm

The Future

Alley-Oop, Sports Illustrated Hits the iPad

Sports Illustrated joins Time magazine today as the first Time Inc. titles to have iPad applications.

Both apps are priced at $4.99, to compete with Wired. But Wired is dropping the price of its app to $3.99 for customers who purchased the first issue. Neither publisher has decided on subscription pricing for the iPad yet.

“We’ll be Read More

By Tom Scocca 8/18/09 9:49pm

Let’s Just Use the Fake Steroids List

How good is the next name going to have to be, from baseball’s secret steroids-offender list? The returns on the leaks from the six-year-old document are already diminishing: Alex Rodriguez was boffo, scandal-perfect, exactly what everyone wanted to hear.

But that was the peak. The Manny Ramirez–David Ortiz combo? Ramirez was already serving a drug-test-related Read More

By John Koblin 6/02/09 11:34pm

Bringing Up A-Rod

In the days immediately after Alex Rodriguez held a wildly uncomfortable press conference to admit he’d used steroids, the Sports Illustrated reporter responsible for the news, Selena Roberts, noticed a change in the air.

“I think he was a sympathetic figure after that awkward press conference,” said Ms. Roberts. “There’s a turning point with people: Read More

By Chris Shott 6/01/09 11:26am

Bikini Babe Fernanda Motta Risks Modeling Career on ‘Thrilling’ Pesto Pasta at Le 55

Restaurants are notoriously risky investments, especially for a supermodel.

"I cannot come here," Fernanda Motta told the Daily Transom the other night at Le 55 in the meatpacking district, "because I love Italian food."

Despite the inherent danger—every carb-laden bite of pasta a potential career-ender for the slender, four-time Sports Illustrated bikini babe—Ms. Motta and her Read More

By Allen Barra 5/07/09 3:21pm

Can the Best Pitcher in Baseball Redeem the Mets?

“The best pitcher in baseball,” according to Sports Illustrated’s May 4 cover story, is Kansas City’s Zack Greinke, who is 6-0 and leading the major leagues with a 0.40 ERA. 

SI is wrong.  They might have changed their minds had they been at the game last night, where Johan Santana threw seven Read More

By Allen Barra 3/02/09 1:47am

Some Questions the Media Should Be Asking Itself About the A-Rod Case

Q:        What about some peripheral issues surrounding A-Rod – the union, for instance? One of the reports that stirred up the most anger among sportswriters and fans are charges that the union tipped off Rodriguez – and, presumably, other players are well – about upcoming drug tests.  How can you justify that?

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