ESPN shut down Grantland.com on Friday, nine days after announcing it would lay off 300 employees.
Its final lead article was about interim coaches like the Miami Dolphins’ Dan Campbell.
ESPN did not offer detailed reasons for its decision to immediately end the run of the four-year-old sports and culture website founded by Bill Simmons. But it said in a statement that “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.”
ESPN seems to have concluded that some of Grantland’s long articles could appear on espn.