I’ll now have one less free paper to read each week, as New York Press announced yesterday that its sister paper, New York Sports Express, will fold, effective immediately. I greatly enjoyed NYSX in its brief run- especially Matt Taibbi’s “Sports Crime Blotter” column; it will be missed.
Here’s the farewell letter from editor Spike Vrusho, who concludes with the last lines of Bernard Malamud’s novel “The Natural” (not the compromised screen version). And here’s my favorite thing ever in the paper, Taibbi’s telling of the ‘80s Pirates drug scandal, in which the team’s mascot (“Pirate Parrot”) was caught procuring drugs for numerous players on the team, as well as other teams in the NL.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 16, 2004 01:35 AM