As someone who has been a cultural writer for almost 40 years and writes this sports/culture blog, I was not surprised to hear that the acting editor in chief of Deadspin, Barry Petchesky, was fired by the sports website’s new management for not “sticking to sports” in the site’s content. (The rest of the staff resigned.)
Read MoreA poster for a Rafael Nadal-Novak Djokovic exhibition match in Saudi Arabia that never happened. What role if any did the murder of dissident Saudi Arabian Jamal Khashoggi, which took place two months before the scheduled match, play in its cancellation?