Subscription-only sports journalism outlet founded in 2016, acquired by the New York Times in 2022 for $550 million, providing deep-reporting sports coverage across every major sport and market.
Proved the subscription model for sports journalism by hiring beat writers away from declining local newspapers — reversing a decade of sports reporting collapse — and became the most significant acquisition in the New York Times' bundling strategy.
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