ESPN shuts down Grantland, and Bill Simmons is mad about it

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ESPN shuts down Grantland, and Bill Simmons is mad about it -       Bill Simmons took  to  Twitter Friday  to  bash ESPN  with   their  decision  to help  shut  along  Grantland,  ones   web page  he  founded   throughout  2011.

Simmons  are  fired  from  ESPN  throughout  May,  AND   is   right now   in  HBO,  where  he  offers   produced   a whole new  podcast  AND   is actually   visiting   in   the latest  show  that will  air  throughout  2016.  at the  months  following  Simmons' departure,  numerous   reviews  have  advised  uncertainty  with the  future  of any   web site   since the  Simmons brought  for the  vast majority  of the  traffic.

In May, ESPN said they were committed  to help  Grantland's future despite  the  fact  The item   This  didn't make  the organization  money.  a good  ESPN source told  institution  Insider  in  Friday  This   several   regarding  Grantland's writers would  move forward   to write down   pertaining to  ESPN, but  The idea  others would lose  its  jobs.

Bill Simmons 

✔@BillSimmons

I loved everyone I worked with at G and loved what we built. Watching good/kind/talented people get treated so callously = simply appalling.

1:37 AM - 31 Oct 2015

 
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herman punster @suss2hyphens

jesus, Grantland had *half* the traffic of Deadspin

1:54 AM - 31 Oct 2015

 
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