[MicroBob]

I guess I'm the only one who would prefer a delay so that the specific playoffs can be analyzed in greater detail. He can speak in generalities now and then some other aspect comes up between now and then that actually changes things.

Personally, I don't think it would be so horrible to do both articles.
Do a general one now and then a follow-up that shows how this year's playoffs work or perhaps don't work into that.

It's not like the 2+2 mag articles are novel-length. Oftentimes they can be somewhat short so I have no problem with turning it into a 2-parter if it can be done in a way that doesn't completely repeat the content.

Sounds like King isn't interested in doing that though because he doesn't want to do back to back football articles and I'm not sure there are many readers besides me for something like that either.