ESPN Reportedly Consider Sale of FiveThirtyEight

As ESPN continues to recover from the shocking departure of President John Skipper and attempts to refocus the brand toward sports and away from politics, a new report claims that the network is considering selling Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight. According to The Big Lead, potential outlets for FiveThirtyEight — which ESPN purchased in 2013 — include The Atlantic among others. However, there is a chance the site could be shuffled to another division of The Walt Disney Company such as ABC News. A spokesperson for ESPN told The Big Lead, “FiveThirtyEight is a tremendous asset to ESPN, and together we’ve created exceptional content. We are exploring, with Nate, a variety of options for the future, and any discussion of exactly what that might look like would be premature.”