Disney puts final dagger in 538 after axing sports content in 2023, Nate Silver shares disappointment
"...the basic issue is that Disney was never particularly interested in running FiveThirtyEight as a business."
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Nate Silver roasted for critique of Indiana Fever’s name
"My favorite team is the Boston Irish Guys."
Nate Silver gets roasted for latest Canadian sports error
Silver, of "Sudbury/Thunder Bay" infamy, mixed up how "college" is used in Canada.
Nobody cares that Nate Silver isn’t interested in a Diamondbacks-Rangers World Series
"Everyone wants parity til they get it."
Nate Silver finished 87th in the World Series of Poker Main Event
Nate Silver finished an impressive run in the World Series of Poker Main Event on Wednesday.
Nate Silver says Disney layoffs have ‘substantially impacted’ FiveThirtyEight, and he expects he’ll be leaving
"My contract is up soon and I expect that I'll be leaving at the end of it."
There was a Nate Silver-Darren Rovell Election Day Twitter feud
This isn't the Election Day debate we expected, but here we are.
FiveThirtyEight moves to ABC News, continuing ESPN transition away from politics and personality-focused sites
This fits in as part of ESPN's larger shifts since they launched FiveThirtyEight back in 2014.
ESPN reportedly exploring sale of FiveThirtyEight
At a time when ESPN wants to get less "political," moving on from FiveThirtyEight might make sense.
Nate Silver apologized for attempted Boston sports tweet meme gone horribly wrong
Silver was trying to make a joke about the Red Sox using Apple Watches to steal signs but had to delete it and apologize for it.
As expected, ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight sets traffic records on Election Day
When ESPN hired Nate Silver in 2013, they surely imagined November 8, 2016, when the presidential election would be swirling...