Bill Simmons Is Not "Cool And Edgy," New York Times Sports media giant/tall Nilla wafer Bill Simmons is the subject of a short, soft profile in The New York Times today, running under the headline “Bill Simmons Prepares To Stand Up To Sports Incorporated.” It begins by describing Simmons as “coo Read more ... l and edgy,” moves into a comparison to Bill Maher, and ...

Bill Simmons Is Headed To HBO To Host A Talk Show Bill Simmons, perhaps the most famous voice in sports media, has agreed to a multi-year agreement with HBO, the network announced Wednesday in a press release. Simmons will host a weekly HBO talk show

Bill Simmons Lands at HBO With Multi-Platform Deal Bill Simmons, the well-known "sports guy" whose ESPN contract was dropped amid clashes with the network's top brass, has found his next perch: HBO.Mr. Simmons will join HBO with a multi-platform deal, the company announced Wednesday. Mr. Simmons will Read more ... receive a new weekly series to debut next year.

Bill Simmons' next stop: HBO? HBO executives are wooing the outgoing ESPN columnist Bill Simmons and are hopeful they'll strike a deal soon, but Simmons has other options as well.

ESPN names Bill Simmons replacement Chris Connellly named Grantland's interim editor in chief to replace Bill Simmons.

Report: Bill Simmons Won't Be Appearing On Any ESPN Platforms When ESPN president John Skipper announced that he would not be renewing Bill Simmons’s contract last week--four months ahead of his current contract’s expiration date--a lot of people were left wondering how Simmons would spend his last few mont Read more ... hs as a lame-duck employee. According to Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, we now know that Simmons is already as good as gone.

Please Don’t Send Grantland, Bill Simmons’ Amazing Site, Packing With Him, ESPN So Bill Simmons, the logorrheic sporting everyman who is friends with Jalen Rose and wants you to know it, has been let go by ESPN after more than a decade at the network. From his early days as a Boston bartender with a popular local sports blog, Si Read more ... mmons built “He...

Why ESPN Fired Bill Simmons That Bill Simmons’s 14-year run at ESPN has come to an end isn’t actually all that surprising. The relationship between Simmons and the brass in Bristol been rocky for some time now, and Simmons recently lost the support of his greatest champion, Read more ... ESPN president John Skipper. What is surprising is the way in which it went down. This doesn’t look like a mutual parting, but rather an outright firing.

ESPNers: Bill Simmons Found Out He Was Fired On Twitter So Bill Simmons and ESPN are splitting up. What the fuck?! We asked around at the Worldwide Leader to get water-cooler reactions to the news. This is what we got from our sources at ESPN and Grantland.

John Walsh Had No Idea ESPN Was Splitting Up With Bill Simmons The man who made Bill Simmons wasn’t prepared to hear he was done with ESPN.