Who owns grantland

There had been warning signs and, from the moment that ESPN said goodbye to Bill Simmons, the future of Grantland was, at some level, in jeopardy. You're seeing somebody put together kind of like a mini-empire -- and, by the way, a very successful financial one.

I think it's fair to say they didn't shy away from much, and certainly, on the Grantland podcasts — that were incredibly popular — they didn't shy away from much either, and that's part of why Simmons was suspended in the fall of , when he called Roger Goodell a liar on that podcast.

Did the company abolish Grantland because it was so closely identified with Bill Simmons? JAM: Bill almost has five million followers on Twitter. He's a huge presence. I think what happened was, when Bill was gone, they looked and they tried to figure out how they could keep it going without him. Ultimately, a variety of factors then led to its demise. You know the rest. I spent the past 10 days asking various People Who Know Things that question. And Lacob and Harris would double their Warriors and Sixers investments from four years ago.

Sorry, I had to. God, this makes me ornery. Gores kept living in Beverly Hills over moving back to Michigan, allowed the Joe Dumars era to degenerate into a debacle, and generally acts like one of those eBay buyers who keeps forgetting to give you feedback. Then again, Gores would be insane to sell right now. Does it really matter if you bought one of the ugliest houses on that beach? You can always knock the house down and build a better one … right? Who wants to be on the hottest beach?

What will you pay? How bad do you want it? Get one of those 30 houses and you can invite your friends down for the weekend, show them around, make them drinks and eventually head out to your deck.

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