The whole system is keeping both foxsports.com and sportingnews.com urls, but you never actually know when you will be shifting from one to the other. The most immediate and noticeable effect — the reduction of interesting content on team pages. There’s a lot more reliance on the Fox junk. This means video and crap from the local Fox Sports affiliate.
The whole thing seems harder to navigate and in a moment of sheer, inspired brilliance, you still have separate sign-ins for the Fox Sports and the Sporting News sites. Great, work.