Calacanis Wanted Deadspin, But Deadspin Wanted Denton
Last night on the Upper East Side, we spent far too much time at Blondies watching tennis and feting our favorite sports blogger, Deadspin‘s Will Leitch, in honor of the site’s one-year anniversary. The Gawker Media property has become the preeminent sports blog on the Web — averaging about 1.7 million page views a day, according to Alexa — but it nearly wasn’t theirs.
As Gawker Media editor Lockhart Steele explained, Leitch first pitched the idea to Gawker Godfather Nick Denton, and after its lukewarm reception was courted by Jason Calacanis for his blog network, Weblogs Inc.
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