{"id":10213,"date":"2016-01-25T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=10213"},"modified":"2016-01-25T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T22:15:38","slug":"the-athletic-new-chicago-sports-website-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/01\/25\/the-athletic-new-chicago-sports-website-debuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Athletic: New 'thought-provoking' Chicago sports website debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three former contributors to ESPN Chicago <\/a>are founding writers for The Athletic,<\/a> a new subscription website aimed at covering Chicago\u2019s professional sports teams \u201cwith thought-provoking writing and enlightening statistics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jon Greenberg, Sahadev Sharma and Scott Powers, all ESPN Chicago veterans, were announced Monday as the new site\u2019s main writers. Greenberg, named as founding editor, will write on all sports and run editorial operations in Chicago. Sharma will cover baseball, and Powers will cover hockey and basketball.<\/p>\n

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The Athletic will post free articles each day, but will be fully accessible by subscription only. Initially it will cost $10 a month, with yearly and special \u201cseason\u201d subscription rates to be announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is The Athletic?\u201d Greenberg wrote in a welcoming post<\/a>. \u201cAt its core, it\u2019s a website dedicated to bringing you news, opinion and statistics about Chicago sports. What will it look like in six months? A year? Five years? We don\u2019t know yet, quite honestly. I was part of the founding editorial team of ESPN Chicago back in the spring of 2009 and the site evolved over the years into something pretty great.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Athletic was founded by Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, two San Francisco tech entrepreneurs who\u2019ll be building out the underlying platform and assisting with analytics and graphics.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere at The Athletic, we know what we want to do and that\u2019s cover the local teams with local reporters,\u201d Greenberg wrote. \u201cWe want to use numbers to help tell the stories, to tell the truth. But we won\u2019t talk down to fans. We won\u2019t try to bluff you with statistics you won\u2019t understand. You will like visiting our website and looking at our visuals. Style matters, in our view. But substance keeps you coming back. We hope you\u2019ll laugh and learn along with us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here to report the news, add to the conversation, to be a part of the social fabric of America\u2019s greatest sporting city,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s last great digital sports venture, ChicagoSideSports.com,<\/a> was founded in 2012 by Jonathan Eig and Sol Lieberman, and was to have been funded through advertising, editorial partnerships and special events. It folded<\/a> after two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re proud as hell of the work we\u2019ve done \u2014 with stories that have appeared everywhere from Deadspin to the Wall Street Journal,\u201d Eig said at the time. \u201cWe set out to create the best online sports outlet in Chicago, and we feel like we met our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three former contributors to ESPN Chicago are founding writers for The Athletic, a new subscription website aimed at covering Chicago\u2019s professional sports teams \u201cwith thought-provoking writing and enlightening statistics.\u201d Jon Greenberg, Sahadev Sharma and Scott Powers, all ESPN Chicago veterans, were announced Monday as the new site\u2019s main writers. Greenberg, named as founding editor, will... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10219,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions\/10219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}