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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-happened-to-sports-illustrated-for-women/">What Happened to Sports Illustrated for Women?</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted July 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Megan Hueter</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">When I was younger, I was an avid reader of Sports Illustrated for Women. To my recent surprise, I visited the SI for Women Web site and was shocked at what I found. This message from the editor: “It is with especially deep sadness that we tell you the bad news: The December 2002 issue will be Sports Illustrated Women’s last. These are tough times for a new magazine, and sometimes even loyal readers aren’t enough to make the numbers add up.” This really saddens me. The magazine only lasted two years, running from March 2000-Nevember 2002. Its primary audience, according to Wikipedia, was women, 18-34 years old, with “a passion for sports.” What’s even more interesting to me, is that in 2002, Cleary Simpson the then-publisher…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-happened-to-sports-illustrated-for-women/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-happened-to-sports-illustrated-for-women/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-happened-to-sports-illustrated-for-women/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-happened-to-sports-illustrated-for-women/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>