Pbly helps that theconcourse.deadspin.com counts as Deadspin, but no surprise the site would rank high just on their sports stories. Good soccer coverage, plenty of cycling, tennis, and other “niche” stories, and plenty of solid callouts on sports bullshit – CTE in American football, public financing of private sports venues, NCAA money grabs, etc. (Actually kinda surprised that io9/gizmodo & jalopnik didn’t make the list, but Jez and Deadspin are enough to represent.) Likewise, no surprise that gizmodomedia’s backstage Kinja.com (kinda-sorta like BBS is to BB, with some Slack thrown in) made the list – lottsa smart, engaged, diverse voices there.
Glad to see Gothamist get a nod…since they may not be around much longer. (What a shitshow; here’s another gizmodomedia property talking about gothamist’s post-unionization woes following the Rickett’s buyout.)
