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The We’re-Back Show: RIP New York Times Sports, ESPN Layoffs, GQ, and More

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The New York Times' Shutdown of the Sports Desk

Sports staff were invited to a morning meeting on Monday. The news alert that the sports desk was shuttering came out before executive editor Joe Conn had said the words allowed to the room. Most of them have been sports writers their entire careers. And now you're being told, Hey, you got to go do something else at the paper because the section you worked for doesn't exist anymore.

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