The sports news website Deadspin has been sold, and everyone on its staff has been laid off. Employees were told the news Monday in a memo, Axios reports. “Deadspin’s new owners have made the decision to not carry over any of the site’s existing staff and instead build a new team more in line with their editorial vision for the brand,” CEO Jim Spanfeller wrote. G/O Media, the site’s parent company, sold Deadspin to Lineup Publishing, a new European digital media company. Spanfeller said the site, which began as a blog in 2005, hadn’t been for sale. The price was not disclosed. The website of L…