sports.aol.com - 5/23/2008
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ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons is continuing to sound sullen notes about his bosses. The latest comes from his personal blog , where he's begun posting old columns from before he worked for ESPN. In introducing a column that he wrote on March 2, 1999, Simmons says of his writing style at the time, " I was starting to find a groove and my column was starting to resemble what it's like now, ...
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AaronGleeman.com —
... the "writers wanted" note from 2003 that led to his hiring. Rosenthal is responsible for me joining Rotoworld a couple years later, so needless to say that the old stuff is fascinating to me. Last week Bill Simmons complained publicly about his strained relationship with ESPN and started a personal blog where he posted an old 15,000-word article. This week he posted more old articles on the blog, accused ESPN.com editors of censoring his jokes, and invoked the character Mitch McDeere from The ...
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