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Disney puts final dagger in 538 after axing sports content in 2023, Nate Silver shares disappointment

"...the basic issue is that Disney was never particularly interested in running FiveThirtyEight as a business."

"My favorite team is the Boston Irish Guys."

Silver, of "Sudbury/Thunder Bay" infamy, mixed up how "college" is used in Canada.

"Everyone wants parity til they get it."

Nate Silver finished an impressive run in the World Series of Poker Main Event on Wednesday.

"My contract is up soon and I expect that I'll be leaving at the end of it."

This isn't the Election Day debate we expected, but here we are.

This fits in as part of ESPN's larger shifts since they launched FiveThirtyEight back in 2014.

At a time when ESPN wants to get less "political," moving on from FiveThirtyEight might make sense.

Silver was trying to make a joke about the Red Sox using Apple Watches to steal signs but had to delete it and apologize for it.

When ESPN hired Nate Silver in 2013, they surely imagined November 8, 2016, when the presidential election would be swirling...