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President Obama is known to be something of a basketball junkie. He's a die-hard Chicago Bulls fan with a pretty tidy jumper, and his knowledge of the game is almost second to none. But Obama took it a step further when he told Bill Simmons in a Q&A for GQ, that he wouldn't mind being an owner of an NBA team. Read More »
Bill Simmons is the Sports Guy. More importantly, he's a fan of all things New England sports and when the Patriots rekindled their Spygate war - not DeflateGate - he of course went down to the gallows for his team. The moment ESPN, his former employee, posted an article that said Roger Goodell linked Spygate and Deflategate, Simmons went on to say that the Patriots didn't cheat. It's just that the other teams involved were awful. He cited Super Bowl implosions with lopsided scores by the Rams and Eagles as proof. Read More »
In today's world, it feels like there are very few moments when the good guys win. Wars on television and political smearing from the left and right just leave us with a bad taste in our mouth. Thankfully, amongst the ashes of media mush, there are moments of triumph you can't help but recognize and feel good about. One moment of triumph in particular came when the great Tom Brady overruled the NFL's 4-game suspension with the help of federal courts. In the end, the suspension didn't hold up because the NFL refused to share their notes and they didn't notify Brady of his suspension. Naturally, when it comes to monumental rulings such as this one, Twitter users lose their minds. Here is what a few people in the public eye are saying about Brady's newfound freedom. The first is Presidential candidate Donald Trump. Read More »
Bill Simmons may have landed the biggest gig of his career. The one-time blogger, who was discovered by ESPN and became the sensation known as the Sports Guy, will now call HBO his home. On Wednesday HBO announced that Simmons will get a talk show in 2016 and that his contract will begin in October. Read More »
This year ESPN announced Bill Simmons is leaving the sports brand he called home for more than a decade. Now another high-profile host is also leaving. Colin Cowherd of the popular radio show The Herd, is walking out the door right behind him. Of course, while its unknown where Simmons is headed, Cowherd may already have a home. He is currently talking to Fox Sports in hopes of landing a gig there. Read More »
Whenever a team signs a player they hope they're picking up the missing piece of their championship puzzle. The golden goose, if you will. This was the mindset ESPN had going into their signing of Bill Simmons 15-years-ago and in terms of being a golden goose, Simmons has been the brightest and goosiest free agent pickup of them all. Page 2, Grantland and his 30 for 30 series are arguably some of the biggest non-Sports Center draws the company has ever had and somehow, despite his popularity, the relationship between the two ended with Simmons being blindsided. This report is from the mouth of ESPN President John Skipper himself. Read More »
It happened suddenly. The always fruitful, yet sometimes tumultuous relationship between Bill Simmons and ESPN has come to an end after company president John Skipper announced that the Sports Guy's contract will not be renewed. As a matter of fact, Simmons was released from ESPN more than four months before his contract was set to expire. Since the break, Simmons has been surprisingly silent. Twitter has always been a place for Simmons to speak but for now, he has chosen not to say anything. Read More »
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris Evans, John Krasinski, Eli Roth, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler and ESPN's Bill Simmons have all admitted that they are behind the New England Patriots Deflate-Gate as the "locker room guy." The high-profile Boston heroes all appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to say that they acted alone in deflating 11 of the 12 balls used by Tom Brady (the "greatest man in all humanity" with "piercing baby blue eyes" and "those lips") and the Patriots in their AFC Championship Game win. Ranging from "squeezing them wicked hard" to using their air to avert a Good Year Blimp disaster, the reasons will definitely sway you no matter what "a bunch of assholes on twitter" say. Read More »
"You do the lead in, I'm too bummed out," ESPN Grantland basketball hour and Grantland.com editor-in-chief host Bill Simmons said. Hours after Simmons' beloved Boston Celtics traded point guard Rajon Rondo to the Dallas Mavericks, Simmons could barely speak. Read More »
Well, Larry David didn’t exactly say he’s not going to do another season of HBO’s famed Curb Your Enthusiasm, but he kind of … well, did. In a new interview with Grantland’s Bill Simmons, David talked up his new Broadway play Fish in the Dark, his thoughts on all the criticism behind the infamous Seinfeld finale, and yes, whether or not he’s doing another season of Curb. Read More »
During his grantland.com podcast Editor-in-Chief, Bill Simmons ranted bout National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell's handling of the Ray Rice domestic violence case. Read More »
Bill Simmons has been suspended from ESPN for three weeks after using his podcast to put NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on blast. Read More »
