Is Grantland DOA?

Grantland, the highly anticipated “boutique” spinoff of ESPN, launched yesterday.

It may already be doomed, at least if you ask The Atlantic’s Nicholas Jackson.

The problems, he writes, are legion: the editor in chief, Bill Simmons, hates to be managed and doesn’t know how to manage; his staff is overpaid, and ESPN doesn’t know what its doing, in short.

That’s a bit harsh for a site that just launched yesterday and has names attached to it like Chuck Klosterman and Dave Eggers.

But

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