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SB Nation was co-founded by Tyler Bleszinski and Markos Moulitsas in 2003. Bleszinski launched the founding blog, Athletics Nation, in July 2003 to cover the Oakland Athletics. Jerome Armstrong is also listed as a co-founder of the broader network.
SB Nation is owned by Vox Media. The parent company was originally called SportsBlogs Inc. and rebranded as Vox Media in October 2011 after expanding beyond sports with the launch of The Verge.
In February 2016, SB Nation published a profile of Daniel Holtzclaw, a former police officer convicted of rape, that was widely criticized as sympathetic to him. The piece was taken down within hours. Editorial director Spencer Hall described it as a "complete failure" of site standards, the longform program was permanently shut down, and the head of that program, Glenn Stout, was suspended and later fired.
In August 2020, Vox Media agreed to pay $4 million to settle a collective action lawsuit brought by a former site manager who alleged misclassification as an independent contractor. The settlement was distributed among 450 writers and site managers.
Secret Base is SB Nation's YouTube channel, which launched in March 2012 and was renamed to its current name in August 2020. It publishes web series including Dorktown and Pretty Good, and won a Webby Award in 2021 for its Beef History series.
17776 is a serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative written by Jon Bois and published by SB Nation in July 2017. It earned SB Nation a National Magazine Award in the Digital Innovation category in 2018. A sequel, 20020, was published in 2020.