Our feature articles usually range from 500 to 3,000 words. Right now most of our articles are 'think pieces' rather than news stories. That's because of the amount of editing time we typically spend on each story. In 1999, we only published about 10-20 articles that had some kind of current news peg. However, we do plan to offer more current sports news in the future.
News fits the mission of a daily magazine better.
We realize that it helps our traffic if we publish information about a sports topic at a time when people are most interested in hearing about that topic. However, we don't want to be rushing crap to publication. When we cover sports news, we'll have something important or unique to say about it. Including our accountant, the core staff at SportsJones is about 15 people. The rest are professors, grad students, or professional writers who help out when they can with writing and editing.