SB Nation - wikipedia SB Nation SB Nation www.sbnation.com Screenshot Screenshot of SB Nation 's Homepage Type of site Sports news Available in English Owner Vox Media Founder ( s ) Matt Watson Website www.sbnation.com Alexa rank 769 ( As of January 2015 ) Commercial No Registration Optional ( required for comments / posting ) Launched 31 March 2005 ; 12 years ago ( 2005 - 03 - 31 ) Current status Active SB Nation ( Sports Blog Nation ) is a sports news website owned and operated by Vox Media ( formerly SportsBlogs, Inc. ). Established in 2005, the site comprises 320 blogs covering individual professional and college sports teams, and other sports - oriented topics. The site operates from Vox 's offices just off Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, as well as Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. SB Nation currently has content - sharing partnerships with Yahoo ! Sports, CBS Sports, USA Today, Comcast and the National Hockey League ( NHL ). Contents 1 History 1.1 Relaunch 1.2 Vox Media 1.3 Holtzclaw controversy 1.4 Rebranding 2 See also 3 References 4 External links History The concept of SB Nation was rooted in Athletics Nation, a blog focused on the Oakland Athletics, which was founded in 2003 by Tyler Bleszinski. Bleszinski noted that at the time, blogs focused on sports were a new concept limited to `` mostly baseball sites on Typepad and Blogger '', and that he was displeased over how the Athletics were being covered by these sites. In the spirit of Athletics general manager Billy Beane, he decided to build his own blog with an aggressive focus on the team. Athletics Nation soon became the second - largest site on the advertising network Blogads behind the political blog Daily Kos. Its author, Markos Moulitsas, was also a friend of Bleszinksi ; in 2005, Bleszinksi partnered with him to form SB Nation, which would serve as a network of sports blogs with a common platform enabling community participation. Athletics Nation began hiring additional part - time writers, while the SB Nation network would absorb and acquire other sports blogs focusing on major league and college teams. In 2008, Jim Bankoff, a former AOL executive, joined as CEO to expand SB Nation. Comparing it to his previous company 's focus on publishing content in specific verticals, Bankoff wanted to build a topic - based sports media company, explaining that `` when you go to Google you do n't type in ' sports ', you search for a specific team or a player. As media consumers, we 're not sports fans, but we 're fans of a given team. That 's our philosophy here, and our tagline fits it well when it says pro quality -- in reference to the type of content and commentary, and fan perspective -- as we speak from a fan voice, which can mean we 're sometimes very critical. '' Relaunch In 2009, SBNation.com was re-launched to serve as a nationally focused portal for the network 's sites. As of February 2009, there were about 185 blogs. ComScore, the Reston, Virginia - based tracker of consumer Internet habits, tallied 5.8 million unique visitors to SB Nation websites during the month of November 2010. That 208 percent increase over the 1.9 million unique visitors in November 2009 made SB Nation the fastest growing sports website the company tracked at that time. As of December 2010, SB Nation had 12 million unique visitors and over 100 million page views monthly. The site also announced plans to expand its scope into international sports by launching blogs focused on English soccer and the Premier League. Vox Media In 2011, a number of editors from AOL 's blog Engadget, including Joshua Topolsky, left the site to join SB Nation, where they would begin work on launching a new technology website under its ownership known as The Verge, with Topolsky as editor - in - chief. Following the launch of The Verge, SB Nation 's parent company was renamed Vox Media. In November 2011, Vox Media acquired MMAFighting.com from AOL ; the site was integrated into SB Nation. In December 2011 Time, listed SB Nation # 1 in Sports, and # 15 overall in its `` 50 Websites That Make the Web Great '' list. In September 2012, SB Nation unveiled a comprehensive redesign of the website codenamed `` SB United ''. The project reconstructed the site with a unified format and design, using a responsive, `` magazine - style '' presentation with multimedia and `` StoryStreams '', and new circular logo designs for each one of the site 's blogs. The changes came under the direction of Spencer Hall, writer of the college football blog Every Day Should Be Saturday, who was named as the site 's first ever editorial director, and stated that he had wanted to `` corral some kind of common vision and coordination '' between the individual blogs on SB Nation. In March 2013, Vox Media acquired Outsports, a blog focusing on sport in the LGBT community. It was integrated into SB Nation. On July 18, 2016, Vox Media announced a partnership with GOW Media, under which its Yahoo ! Sports Radio network was re-branded as SB Nation Radio on August 1, 2016. SB Nation and its blogs will contribute on - air personalities and co-develop new content for the network. On August 8, 2017, Vox Media announced a partnership with Bill Simmons ' The Ringer, a website that focuses on sports, pop culture, and tech. The website has been integrated into SB Nation. At this time it is unknown if the site will stay on that platform or move to a entirely new platform. Holtzclaw controversy In February 2016, the site published a lengthy profile of Daniel Holtzclaw, a former police officer convicted of multiple accounts of rape and other charges, focusing on his college football career. The piece, which was seen as sympathetic to Holtzclaw, was heavily criticized and was taken down within hours of publication. SB Nation 's editorial director Spencer Hall apologized for `` a complete breakdown '' of SB Nation 's editorial process, and described the story and its publication as a `` complete failure '' of site standards. SB Nation subsequently cut ties with the story 's author, freelance journalist Jeff Arnold, and put its longform program on hiatus pending a peer review of the editorial process that led to the Holtzclaw piece being published. The head of the longform program, veteran sportswriter Glenn Stout, was suspended and later fired. In May 2016, Vox Media published the results of the peer review. It found that the longform program was isolated from the rest of SB Nation in a way that made it impossible for stories to be properly vetted. It also harshly criticized SB Nation for not giving individual editors the authority to review stories about sensitive topics. At the time, sensitive stories were reviewed by the newsroom 's two most senior women, senior editor Elena Bergeron and senior content producer Sarah Kogod. The reviewers found that this practice made it appear that that an individual editor did not have the responsibility to `` care to the fullest extent about matters of ethics, integrity, and accuracy. '' It also raised concerns about the lack of diversity in the newsroom. Based on the review, SB Nation permanently shelved the longform program, and also announced it would take steps to diversify its newsroom. In a statement, SB Nation said that the Holtzclaw fiasco revealed that `` an organization can not afford to wait to be diverse, particularly if that organization is one that wants to tell stories. '' Rebranding On May 1, 2017, SB Nation Editor - in - Chief Elena Bergeron unveiled a brand refresh that included a new logo, webpage layout and color palette. See also Journalism portal Bleacher Report Yardbarker 17776 References Jump up ^ `` sbnation.com Site Overview ''. Alexa Internet. Retrieved 22 January 2015. Jump up ^ `` SbNation.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools ''. WHOIS. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 15. Jump up ^ Dubois, Lou ( 20 August 2010 ). `` The Evolution of Sports Blog Nation ''. Inc. Retrieved 2015 - 05 - 02. Jump up ^ Dan Orlando ( July 12, 2013 ). `` Bleacher Report, SB Nation and Deadspin strive to define future of booming sports - blogging niche ''. New York Business Journal. Retrieved September 15, 2015. Jump up ^ `` SB Nation, Comcast SportsNet sign deal to share content ''. sportsbusinessdaily.com. Jump up ^ `` Comcast SportsNet content sharing with SB Nation ''. Philadelphia Business Journal. 28 June 2010. Jump up ^ `` SB Nation Scores A Link Deal With The NHL ''. TechCrunch. AOL. Jump up ^ `` Tyler Bleszinski, co-founder of SB Nation, to leave Vox Media ''. Capital New York. Retrieved 20 January 2016. ^ Jump up to : `` The Raid On AOL : How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire ''. Business Insider. Retrieved 20 January 2016. Jump up ^ `` Interview with Jim Bankoff, CEO of SBNation.com ''. Inc.com. Retrieved September 4, 2015. Jump up ^ Overly, Steven ( 20 December 2010 ). `` SB Nation 's sports blogger collective sees bias as a plus ''. The Washington Post. Retrieved 2010 - 01 - 08. Jump up ^ `` The New Game in Sports Journalism : SB Nation Claims 100 Million Monthly Views -- Going Global with Soccer Coverage ''. Beet.tv. 10 December 2010. Retrieved 2011 - 02 - 08. Jump up ^ Swisher, Kara ( March 12, 2011 ). `` Exclusive : Engadget 's Top Editors Topolsky and Patel Exit From AOL 's Giant Tech Site ''. All Things Digital. Archived from the original on May 4, 2013. Retrieved May 4, 2013. Jump up ^ Swisher, Kara ( April 3, 2011 ). `` SB Nation Sacks AOL in Raid of Former Engadget Team for Competing New Tech Site, As AOL Zeroes in on New EiC ''. All Things Digital. Archived from the original on May 4, 2013. Retrieved May 4, 2013. Jump up ^ Kramer, Staci D. ( October 31, 2011 ). `` With Launch of The Verge, SB Nation Parent Rebrands as Vox Media ''. Gigaom. Retrieved March 21, 2015. Jump up ^ `` MMA Fighting Sold to Vox Media ''. MMAFighting.com. Retrieved 18 November 2015. Jump up ^ McCracken, Harry ( 16 August 2011 ). `` SB Nation - The 50 Best Websites of 2011 - TIME ''. TIME.com. Jump up ^ `` Vox Media says design helps charge SB Nation ''. New York Business Journal. Retrieved 2 November 2015. Jump up ^ `` SB Nation United : the big rebrand ''. Vox Media. Retrieved 2 November 2015. Jump up ^ `` SB Nation Relaunches, Hires First Editorial Director ''. Adweek. Retrieved 2 November 2015. Jump up ^ O'Keeffe, Michael ( 2013 - 03 - 05 ). `` Outsports.com, which covers the gay athletes, bought by SB Nation parent company Vox Media ''. Daily News ( New York ). Retrieved 2013 - 04 - 23. Jump up ^ `` SB Nation Expands Into Radio Programming With Gow Media Accord ''. Bloomberg. Retrieved 18 July 2016. Jump up ^ Bonesteel, Matt ( February 18, 2016 ). `` SB Nation is right : Its story about a convicted rapist was a ' complete failure ' ''. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Jump up ^ Victor, Daniel ( February 18, 2016 ). `` SB Nation Removes Article Criticized as Sympathetic to Convicted Rapist ''. The New York Times. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Jump up ^ Mitchell, Benjamin F ( February 18, 2016 ). `` SB Nation publishes, takes down `` failure '' of story about Holtzclaw ``. USA Today. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Jump up ^ Howard, Greg ( 2016 - 02 - 19 ). `` SB Nation Memo Announces Hiatus For Longform Program ''. Deadspin. Jump up ^ Howard, Greg ( 2016 - 02 - 26 ). `` How SB Nation Published Their Daniel Holtzclaw Story ''. Deadspin. Jump up ^ Peer review of Holtzclaw story Jump up ^ `` A note from SB Nation leadership ''. SB Nation. 2016 - 05 - 26. Jump up ^ Bergeron, Elena ( 2017 - 05 - 01 ). `` Welcome to the new SB Nation : Refresh and so clean ''. SBNation.com. Retrieved 2017 - 07 - 29. External links Official website Vox Media Websites SB Nation Outsports The Verge Polygon Curbed Vox Recode People Jim Bankoff Marty Moe Related SB Nation Radio Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SB_Nation&oldid=800030117 '' Categories : SB Nation Sport websites Sports blogs Vox Media Hidden categories : Pages using deprecated image syntax Articles containing potentially dated statements from January 2015 All articles containing potentially dated statements Talk Contents About Wikipedia Français 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia Edit links This page was last edited on 11 September 2017, at 05 : 56. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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