The first of its kind? Try GBIprint.com. I think it beat TSN by a couple years.

Hey, those are their words not mine...

"Introducing SPORTING NEWS TODAY—the world's first daily digital sports newspaper. Featuring over 200 contributors from across the country, Sporting News Today delivers every major story, every team, and every score to YOU—the passionate fan—each morning, 365 days a year."

As a sportswriter and editor who has spent countless nights designing pages on Quark, picking photos and writing captions, I love this. I'm only 25, but working in newspapers made me a newspaper purist, and I just enjoy reading things more in this format, with charts, graphs, etc., alongside stories.

Obviously the industry is dying (which is why I got out of it, unfortunately), so this is an outside-the-box idea that I like. I'm sure it will be tweaked, but hopefully it will catch on, and stay around for a while.

The content is very good and while I wouldn't call the format easy to use, it wasn't terribly difficult.

Some newspapers have a model of this (I know the Star Ledger has an online version of their printed paper that comes in PDF).

This is pretty cool, but I can't imagine how much work it is (and late at night) for what return? I know it's the first one, but they don't have one real ad in it, other than SN programs, etc. I'd expect this to be a 50/50 split within a month or I don't know how they can sustain the 200 contributors.

And I'm sure their bloggers are happy about SN faithful spending two hours reading this every morning.

That said, good product.

I think this is great and I already signed up.

I like the format, a newspaper style with all the ease of the internet. The only complaint I have is that the type is either too small, or too large. Needs an adjustable setting, unless I'm missing it.

Plus you know it will get better as they get input from readers. The first model of something is never the same months after the fact. Look at how all our blogs have changed over time.

Thanks for the link, AA.

i'll be the contrarian. i think it's kind of atrocious. hey, i love newspapers in general and love getting the sunday ny times in print. but that medium is dying, and this tsn today seems to try to buck that trend. the ny times has tried something similar to this with with their times reader. other magazines have tried it too, and none successfully. it just doesn't work on the interwebs. the internet is interactive, allows for sound and motion, and allows users to navigate and digest content in ways print doesn't. this is ignoring all that and trying to simply recreate the print experience digitally. didn't we already go thru this around 2001 and didn't we decide it doesn't work?