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Jayski's Silly Season Site
Logo prior to 2017
Type of site
Sports, NASCAR
Available inEnglish
OwnerESPN
Created byJay "Jayski" Adamczyk
URLhttp://www.espn.com/jayski/
Commercialyes
RegistrationNone
Current statusInactive
over 500,000 daily page views

Jayski's Silly Season Site was a web site owned by ESPN focusing primarily on NASCAR news and rumors. The website was founded by Jay "Jayski" Adamczyk in 1996 after he had difficulty finding news regarding the Melling Racing team, and subsequently worked to get all NASCAR news grouped together on the site.[2]

The term Silly Season refers to the period near and after the end of the annual NASCAR season when many teams seek to make changes to prepare for next season. The site shutdown just before the 2019 season on January 28, 2019.

Website

The name for Jayski's Silly Season Site is a reference to the midpoint of the NASCAR season when rumors within the sport most often circulate.[3] The main feature of the site is a "News and Rumors" page for the major three NASCAR series.[4] The sites also hosts pictures of the paint schemes used by teams throughout that year, television schedules and tributes to deceased drivers.[5] The site also lists series statistics and external links to teams and drivers.[6]

History

Adamczyk founded the site in 1996 and used his moniker from his time in the military, Jayski, to brand the site.[5] On December 3, 1999,[7] Adamczyk quit his job as a computer programmer for the Federal Aviation Administration to work on the site full-time.[8][9] Two years later, Jayski's content began to be featured on Knight Ridder's racing website, That's Racin'.[8] That freed Adamczyk from several business commitments (such as advertising),[10] and enabled him to focus solely on creating content,[10] and hosting external links to newspaper and magazine stories on the NASCAR world.[7][8] In January 2004, sports network ESPN began to host Jayski.[7]

In early April 2007, as part of its renewed interest in NASCAR following re-acquisition of broadcasting rights, ESPN purchased Jayski.com.[11][12] Jayski underwent a stylistic overhaul in August 2009.[5] The site was redesigned in early 2017, becoming part of ESPN.com,[13] but Adamczyk continues to operate the site on a daily basis with a staff of two.

Jayski's Silly Season Site was featured in Time's The 50 Best Websites of 2011.[14] Jayski ran a podcast until 2013.[15][16]

On January 28, 2019, Jayski announced via Twitter that the site would be closing.[17][18]

In early April 2019 the site appears to making a possible comeback, the following message was posted and some content was listed including recent nascar new and the 2019 driver chart. "We are back...sort of! Thanks to ESPN, Jay has now regained ownership of the jayski.com domain. Our next step is to find a partner to help us relaunch the website in all its former glory as soon as possible. Those discussions are underway, but nothing has been finalized yet. Until our next deal is finalized, this site will contain only limited information. We don't want to rebuld the site without knowing what platform we will be operating on in the future. As soon as we have something to announce, it will be posted here."

References

  1. ^ "Jayski.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ^ Sigala, Jr., Sal (July 25, 2009). "Jay Adamcyzk (a.k.a. Jayski): Congratulations On a Job Well Done". bleacherreport.com. Bleacher Report, Inc. Retrieved July 25, 2009.
  3. ^ Mosher, Geoff (September 25, 2005). "Jayski.com grows with NASCAR – A relaxing day leads to a one-man empire". The News Journal. Archived from the original on December 14, 2005. Retrieved February 3, 2019. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Jayski Named Grand Marshal for ARCA Race". www.charlottemotorspeedway.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  5. ^ a b c "Jayski.com updates look | HeraldNet.com". HeraldNet.com. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  6. ^ "jayski.com website - server info, stats, DNS, IP, popular keywords - siteencyclopedia.com Websites". www.siteencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  7. ^ a b c Rosewater, Rose (February 16, 2005). "With Web site, quiet outsider emerges as racing insider". USA Today. p. 6F. Archived from the original on November 30, 2005. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c Fleischman, Bill (October 9, 2003). "South Jersey fan has site to behold". Philadelphia Daily News. Archived from the original on October 11, 2003. Retrieved February 3, 2019. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Herrin, Rick (November 3, 2005). "A fan's information superspeedway". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Archived from the original on July 18, 2006. Retrieved February 3, 2019. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ a b Levine, Al (May 30, 2003). "Fan's race site has Net effect". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on June 5, 2003. Retrieved February 3, 2019. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "ESPN Buys Jayski.com". Multichannel. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  12. ^ Kaplan, David (2007-04-02). "ESPN Acquires NASCAR Fan Site Jayski". gigaom.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  13. ^ "February 2017 – The Driver Suit Blog". thedriversuitblog.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  14. ^ McCracken, Harry (August 16, 2011). "The 50 Best Websites of 2011 – Jayski's Silly Season Site". Time. Archived from the original on September 23, 2011. Retrieved February 3, 2019. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ "Listen to ESPN.com: The Jayski Podcast on TuneIn". TuneIn. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  16. ^ "ESPN: The Jayski Podcast". www.podbean.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  17. ^ @jayski (28 Jan 2019). "We didn't get to scoop our own news! :-) Thanks for 22+ great years. Today is the final day for http://Jayski.com . We appreciate all your support. It's been an honor to work for ESPN. We aren't sure what's next for us (Jay, Scott -@SLPAGE and, Amanda) but stay tuned" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  18. ^ Epley, Justin (January 28, 2019). "Jayski changed the game for race fans". The News Herald. Morganton, North Carolina. Retrieved January 30, 2019.


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