"I trusted him. He believed in me tirelessly. He put me front and center with everything. I've never had an executive believe in me as much as he did."
"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."
"The magazine is alive. The website is alive. Our social channels are alive. My column is alive and my podcast is alive. Any reports of SI's demise are 100% wrong."
The Arena Group is now refusing to hand over the Sports Illustrated website and select social channels, a day after it seemed like Arena was ready to move on.
The Arena Group will cease publishing all content under the Sports Illustrated umbrella and any content produced by the tech company will fall under a new banner — Athlon Sports.
While the landmark deal between ABG and Minute includes Sports Illustrated FanNation, the blog's staff may up in the air thanks to its former rights owner.
With today's news that Minute Media will be taking over as publisher of Sports Illustrated, SI's journalists...look forward to remaining part of its future."
"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."
"What I saw was part circus, part radio festival, and part New England sports fans reunion. I couldn't help but sit there and think about how radio should be taking notes."