media: Created especially for Simmons by the sports media giant, Grantland was on borrowed time the minute its editor-in-chief was effectively sacked after doubling down in his criticism of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, also commonly known as the media empire most important client, according to The Guardian. Don Lane and delayed telecasts: the life of an NFL fan in 1980s Australia Ashley Browne Read more Media critics would soon feast on Grantland abrupt closure, but Curtis learned the website fate as he stood in the maternity ward of a hospital celebrating the birth of his daughter Stella. The way former Grantlander Bryan Curtis tells it, it was a pretty simple equation: one day the site founder and most popular writer Bill Simmons was an employee of ESPN, the next day he wasn't. Check your email, read a text from Simmons' short-lived replacement editor Chis Connelly. It pretty much as simple as that. ESPN created Grantland for Bill and when Bill no longer worked for ESPN there was no Grantland, says Curtis, who is in Melbourne for the Sports Writers Festival.
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