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Bill Simmons. William John Simmons III[ 1][ 2] (born September 25, 1969) [ 3][ 4] is an American podcaster, sportswriter, and cultural critic who is the founder and CEO of the sports and pop culture website The Ringer. Simmons first gained attention with his website as "The Boston Sports Guy" and was recruited by ESPN in 2001, where he ...
theringer .com. Commercial. Yes. Launched. March 14, 2016; 8 years ago. ( 2016-03-14) The Ringer is a sports and pop culture website and podcast network, founded by sportswriter Bill Simmons in 2016 and owned by Spotify since 2020. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy is the second book by former ESPN columnist Bill Simmons. [ 1] Published in 2009, it covers the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 2019, Simmons launched a sequel podcast series, Book of Basketball 2.0, which analyzes the evolution of the league since the book was ...
By JOHN DORN Bill Simmons has been relatively quiet lately, as his ESPN tenure comes to a silent close and his HBO career inches closer to open up next year. His columns have been nonexistent ...
By DAVE SCHWARTZ The Cauldron Bill Simmons, ESPN's verbose, narcissistic, funny, insanely creative hood ornament, hung over the classroom like an occupational phantasm. One by one, as we went ...
Bill Simmons will start his new "multiyear, multiplatform" gig with HBO next month, but that is just one aspect of his new career path as he is also now expected to launch his own website. Sarah ...
The idea for the series began in 2007 from ESPN.com columnist and Grantland.com founder Bill Simmons and ESPN's Connor Schell. [1] The title, 30 for 30, derived from the series's genesis as 30 films in celebration of ESPN's 30th anniversary in 2009, with an exploration of the biggest stories from ESPN's first 30 years on-air, through a series of 30 one-hour films by 30 filmmakers.
The Tyson Zone. The Tyson Zone is a phrase coined by sports writer Bill Simmons (although the idea came from one of his readers), [1] to describe the point at which a celebrity's behavior becomes so unpredictable, that there is nothing they could do that would shock or surprise the general public. [1] [2] The phrase is nicknamed after boxer ...