Bill Simmons = Best Sports Writer of Our Time !?
Three reasons to love Bill Simmons
- He perfectly synchronizes insightful sports commentary with brilliant pop culture references.
- He doesn't care what ESPN brass thinks of him. He yearns to be uncensored, in the raw, and to appeal to his loyal readers.
- He is the KING of ESPN's trade machine and would be the -perfect- GM for the Milwaukee Bucks
Sports Guy Bids Farewell to ESPN the Mag
Click Here for Bill's official departure from the Magazine.
Bill Simmons at a Glance
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William J. "Bill" Simmons (born September 25, 1969) is a sports columnist and podcaster for Page2 on ESPN.com and a former writer for ESPN The Magazine. He is also an Executive Producer of ESPN's new documentary project, 30 for 30. He is known by the nickname "The Sports Guy" (formerly "The Boston Sports Guy").
His ESPN.com column is written from the viewpoint of a passionate sports fan, and he often uses extended analogies and references to pop culture in his columns.
He moved to Los Angeles on November 16, 2002 to work as a writer for the Jimmy Kimmel Show. He left the show to work full-time for ESPN. He has signed a contract to remain with ESPN until 2010.
Simmons currently hosts his own podcast on ESPN.com, ESPN Xtra, and iTunes titled The B.S. Report. Between May 8, 2007, when his podcast began, until June 14, 2007, it was called "Eye of the Sports Guy." He has also filmed segments for the television series Category: E:60 - .
He set the record for the longest chat on ESPN's Sportsnation on November 28, 2007, breaking Rob Neyer's previous record. He did the chat to support ESPN's fund raising efforts for the Jimmy V Foundation for cancer. Neyer has since re-broken the record on March 31, 2008 on the opening day of the baseball season. Matthew Berry currently holds the record of 13 hours and 12 minutes.
He also "officially" announced his candidacy for the position of Milwaukee Bucks general manager, for which he was not hired. In a similar spoof move, he announced his candidacy for the Minnesota Timberwolves general manager position in 2009. Again he was not hired.
In the July 27, 2009 issue of ESPN The Magazine, Simmons officially announced his retirement from his magazine column. He continues to write for the ESPN.com website.http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=4343991
Quick, what do you think of Bill Simmons?
Bill Simmons' Recent Blog Posts
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- Happy New Year! My goal for 2010 is to become the first sports columnist involved in a PED scandal.
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- Good save @sethmeyers21. For the arts this decade, my enjoyment list goes: Wire, Mad Men, Ron Artest, Sopranos. Finishing last: Twilight.
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- A bold way to resign from Red Sox Nation! RT @sethmeyers21: Reflecting back on the decade there was nothing I enjoyed more than "The Wire."
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- New Column: The year in sports movies (plus Week 17 pix). http://bit.ly/56zP8H
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- A late contender for funniest sports story of 2009: http://www.mediaite.com/online/furman-bisher-tiger-woods/
Who Are The Highest Paid Sports Journalists
One of my favorite sports blogs, The Big Lead has a very interesting, relatively recent piece on which sports writers earn the most money. Bill Simmons figures to be around 3rd or so behind Rick Reilly and Michael Wilbon. To check out the blog Go Here
Latest Bill Simmons News from Google
- The rugby drama didn't match its hype, but 2009 had other great sports movies
- By Bill Simmons My one-sentence review for "The Blind Side" and "Invictus": One movie was a little too Hollywood; the other wasn't Hollywood enough. ...
- Sports and the Internet: Times They Are A-Changin'
- Writers like Peter King and Bill Simmons were doing online-only columns where they weren't constrained by the bounds of word counts and publication ...
- Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons are back in The War to Settle the Score
- By Bill Simmons Next topic! Did you watch the "60 Minutes" piece on Tim Donaghy? How fascinating was that? So he says he could consistently pick winners by ...
The B.S. Report
Click Here to check out The B.S. Report feat. Bill Simmons.ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine's Bill Simmons talks about his favorite things in sports: the Celtics, the Red Sox, his fantasy team and more...
Cool Bill Simmons' Links
Simmons Roasts Deadspin's Will Leitch
Bill Simmons' Rivals
Rick Reilly is one.
Dane Cook is another. Read this to find out why ...
Is Bill Simmons Biased?
Bill Simmons is often accused of being biased towards Boston sports teams. He certainly likes to cover them; however, they have ultimately been very successful the last few years, which gives him extra opportunities to do so. Is he biased? Weigh in... what's your opinion?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, I get so tired of hearing about Boston sports
No, sure he likes Boston teams, but his coverage is fair, if not equal
Bill Simmons' Book
Now I Can Die in Peace: How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank and the 2004
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