Well, this happened a lot faster than we expected. Today, ESPN announced it was shutting down Grantland, the site founded by Bill Simmons in 2011.
“Effective immediately we are suspending the publication of Grantland,” read an ESPN statement. “After careful consideration, we have decided to direct our time and energy going forward to projects that we believe will have a broader and more significant impact across our enterprise.”
The beginning of the end of Grantland coincided with Simmons’s departure from ESPN.
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