SB Nation acquires Outsports

LINK: blog.voxmedia.com ➚ | Posted by: Justin Ellis | March 5, 2013

Vox Media’s sporting empire, SB Nation has added a new blog to its collection. This morning the company announced it acquired Outsports, described by Vox as “the worldwide leader in gay sports journalism.”

Outsports has broken numerous national stories including the coming out of former professional athletes John Amaechi and Wade Davis, the coming out of the first Div. 1 transgender athlete, Kye Allums, the NFL’s prohibition of the word “gay” on their custom jerseys, Jeremy Shockey’s anti-gay comments and many others.

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