Bill Simmons seems displeased with ESPN at this time

FanHouse found this 5/15/2008 on weblogs.newsday.com [flag]

Everyone has been wondering how Newsday will handle covering the Knicks and Rangers and thus risk being critical of our new bosses. Then, out of leftfield, comes this from ESPN.com's biggest star, Bill Simmons, who evidently is not bashful about being critical of his bosses. So here we have Deadspin interviewing the Sports Guy, a meeting of two of the biggest brands in Internet-based ... [link]

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Bill Simmons Is Unhappy With ESPN and Posting on His Own Blog
Published 5/15/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
... Buzz Bissinger. ... I still love writing my column and only re-signed last year because I really did believe that we had hashed out all the behind the scenes bullsh-- and come to some sort of agreement on creative lines, media criticism rules, the promotion of the column and everything else on ESPN.com. Within a few months, all of those things changed and certain promises were not kept. It's as simple as that. Neil Best of Newsday got the official response from ESPN: "Bill is an exceptional talent with a unique ...

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Of Tony, Bill and Tomase: a strange day for sports journalism

nasonmedia posted 5/15/2008 from smallwhiteball.blogspot.com

First, Tony Kornheiser announces his contract has been bought out...then Deadspin prints some anti-ESPN language from Bill Simmons...then embattled Boston Herald writer John Tomase finally speaks on the Spygate source controversy. What a day.

Simmons hates ESPN

Posted 5/15/2008 on Down with Goldy

Bill Simmons and ESPN have apparently not been getting along lately, leading to a major drop in Sports Guy articles. As much as I think the guy can be quite an idiot at times, and his homerism makes Dawger look balanced, he's pretty entertaining most of the time, so this is bad news. Plus, he was pretty easy to make fun of. Here is the link from deadspin. Whole post here: We're not the only ...

Bill Simmons Takes Shots At ESPN, Creates His Own Blog

Posted 5/15/2008 on FanIQ Blog

I'm sure more than a few of you out there read Bill Simmons, and you may have noticed that until yesterday he hadn't been writing much for ESPN over the past two weeks. The reason for that appears to be because he's not happy with the way ESPN puts shackles on him. Here's what he said yesterday in response to an email query from Deadspin : I still love writing my column and only ...

Deadspin Jinxes Cubs

Posted 5/15/2008 on wrigleyville23

The Cardinal-controlled Deadspin takes notice of the Cubs and concludes "it's starting to look like the Cubs can do this thing. Win a World Series, that is." Ha! Good one! Deadspin is always hilarious. Jinxing bastards. One other thing on Deadspin: Bill Simmons is not happy with ESPN and he has his own blogspot blog now .

Welcome to the Machine

Posted 5/15/2008 on Five Tool Tool - The Sports Blog That Loves You Back

A little note today on Deadspin (H/t) how the Bad Tooth (aka Bill Simmons) is... wait for it... unhappy with how the World Wide Lemur has been treating him! I'll wait here while you go get your Shadenfraude on. (Or become convinced that the whole thing is a fraud, since Simmons got a big push on his Celtics Under Bus fan fiction today.) Now, what could have possibly happened to make ...

Big names.

Posted 5/15/2008 on Sports Media Watch

Tony Kornheiser: After years of being far more well known for his ESPN work than for his writing, the Monday Night Football analyst and Pardon the Interruption co-host has accepted a buyout from the Washington Post. Kornheiser had worked at the Post for nearly to 30 years.Bill Simmons: The Page 2 personality is apparently at odds with his ESPN bosses, telling Deadspin that he is "not writing for

The Internets: Bill Simmons has had it up to here

Posted 5/14/2008 on Randball

Deadspin scores big with an e-mail exchange with ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons, in which it is clear the Sports Guy is not happy with the state of affairs over at the WWL. Without rehashing Simmons’ entire career arc, we will say we did notice he hadn’t been quite as active lately. From Deadspin, Simmons’ words: I still love writing my column and only re-signed last year ...

Simmons And ESPN Not Currently Seeing Eye To Eye

Posted 5/14/2008 on Awful Announcing

Interesting item over at Deadspin today about a dialogue that they had with Bill Simmons recently. It seems that Simmons is writing less these days and it's not because he's taking a vacation or burnt out like Jason Whitlock. No it's because he and the "Leader" are in a bit of a standstill. Yes, I still work for ESPN. No, I'm not writing for ESPN.com as much — my choice, not theirs. That's ...

Cheap Shots: Haven’t Done This In a While

Posted 5/14/2008 on Signal to Noise

I’m gonna try and get better about the link dumping. I suck about this. Check the email addy at the top of the page if you’d like to send something in. If you’ve noticed that Bill Simmons has kind of disappeared from the Four Letter, well, you’re not alone — Leitch tries to get some answers, and gets something about “unkept promises”. [ Deadspin ...