12 Facts About Deadspin

Deadspin is a sports blog founded by Will Leitch in 2005 and based in Chicago.

Deadspin posted daily previews, recaps, and commentaries of major sports stories, as well as sports-related anecdotes, rumors, and videos.

Alumni writers of Deadspin have gone on to work for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated.

Deadspin was founded in December 2005 by editor-in-chief Will Leitch, an author and at that time a founding editor of the New York City-based culture website, "The Black Table", in his New York City apartment, where he wrote 40 blog posts a day.

Deadspin was one of six websites that were purchased by Univision Communications in their acquisition of Gawker Media in August 2016.

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Deadspin cited dysfunction caused by corporate management, attempts by them to intimidate writers out of reporting on it, and undermining and condescending to the site's senior staff.

The Deadspin post said that the editorial staff "are as upset with the current state of our site's user experience as [readers] are" but that they could not control the "ad experience".

Deadspin broke the story of Sarah Phillips, a reporter hired by ESPN who lied about her identity and credentials to staffers in order to gain employment.

In 2013, Deadspin broke the news that the reported September 2012 death of the girlfriend of Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te'o, which Te'o had said inspired him during the 2012 season, was apparently a hoax.

Deadspin found no evidence that the girlfriend had ever existed, much less died.

Deadspin received attention for "buying" a vote for the Baseball Hall of Fame election in 2013.

On October 15,2014, Deadspin published an article which alleged that Cory Gardner, the Republican who ran for the US Senate in Colorado, had faked his high school football career.