{"id":4008,"date":"2014-07-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2014-07-07T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T21:06:38","slug":"chicagoside-disappearance-is-sad-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/07\/06\/chicagoside-disappearance-is-sad-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"ChicagoSide disappearance is sad commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/a>When Jonathan Eig and Sol Lieberman handed off<\/a> ownership of ChicagoSideSports.com last March, they had high hopes the website they founded in 2012 would thrive under new management.<\/p>\n But things haven\u2019t worked out as planned.<\/p>\n Since ChicagoSide was acquired by\u00a0Nick Tranfaglia, director of business development at\u00a0TiqIQ,\u00a0a New York-based ticket broker,\u00a0new content ceased being added to the site. Now it\u2019s been shut down completely, with readers no longer able to access hundreds of essays, commentaries and other posts from the past two years.<\/p>\n ChicagoSide\u2019s\u00a0Facebook page <\/a>continues to be used to promote TiqIQ\u2019s ticket sales, but that appears to be the only sign of life. Tranfaglia did not respond to repeated requests for comment.<\/p>\n If this is the end, it\u2019s an unfortunate coda to an ambitious venture that once touted it would become \u201cthe best Chicago sports website<\/a> the city\u2019s ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n