Grantland Writers Past and Present Eulogize Site on Twitter

Grantland's final homepage. (Photo: Twitter) — Grantland’s final homepage. (Photo: Twitter)

The media world was in shock this afternoon when ESPN announced that it would no longer publish the longform sports and culture site Grantland. The network said in a statement that it had “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.”

Grantland’s broad scope was a draw for many writers, who took to Twitter to mourn the demise of a site they loved writing for:

I loved everyone I worked with at G and loved what we built. Watching good/kind/talented people get treated so callously = simply appalling.

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) October 30, 2015

Grantland, I loved working for you. I will always treasure my association with its writers and editors. ESPN, you blew it.

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) October 30, 2015

Got to work with warm, smart, wildly talented people who believed in me for five years. I’ve been the luckiest writer on earth.

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) October 30, 2015

Grantland always felt too good to be true. It was my favorite website as a reader, and one of best experiences I had as a freelancer.

— Karina Longworth (@KarinaLongworth) October 30, 2015

Well that's the first time I've ever found out I was laid off via Twitter

— Michael Baumann (@MJ_Baumann) October 30, 2015

I'm just alternating between starting to cry and laughing at the thought that we even got to do it at all.

— Robert Mays (@robertmays) October 30, 2015

Grantland and the people there changed my life. I'm going to miss it terribly.

— Mike L. Goodman (@TheM_L_G) October 30, 2015

You're all very nice. Thanks. We miss Grantland too, and we'll all keep writing stuff somewhere else until the 40th anniversary reunion tour

— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) October 30, 2015

I prefer at times like these to be grateful rather than sad. Frankly, it's amazing that Grantland was able to exist at all.

— Steven Hy-loween-den (@Steven_Hyden) October 30, 2015

FiveThirtyEight, ESPN’s other umbrella website, is unaffected by the Grantland shutdown, according to editor in chief Nate Silver.

Grantland Writers Past and Present Eulogize Site on Twitter

ESPN's announcement angered many

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