sports.espn.go.com - 10/21/2009
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In an excerpt from "The Book of Basketball," Bill meets Isiah Thomas next to a topless pool in Vegas.
huffingtonpost.com - 10/22/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
2009-10-21-image_s4.jpg It is not hyperbole to say that
Bill Simmons, aka The Sports Guy, is probably the...
most popular sportswriter in the country. And he got there via a path that, in the 1990's, was unconventional to say the least: he found an ...
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Jason Pinter: Interview with Bill Simmons, Author of ...
thearenablog.net - 10/22/2009
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thearenablog.net —
Simmons, in mirth. While a certain blog is
waging war against ESPN’s PR department, the Worldwide Leader’s...
online franchise is giving interviews about The Book of Basketball , and other things . And — surprise! — Bill Simmons is hinting at leaving ESPN again. JP: As of ...
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Meanwhile, In Bill Simmons’ Corner of ESPN…
washingtontimes.com - 10/26/2009
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Corey Masisak He has become one of the
most popular and influential sports writers of this decade,...
he has an epic, second book hitting stores Tuesday and he is one of the masterminds behind the best thing ESPN has produced since Keith Olbermann sat ...
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Simmons not just a regular 'Sports Guy'
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Bill Simmons On Meeting Isiah Thomas
Hoops and Other Pop Culture —
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/book/091021 You want to talk about irony? How about Simmons and Isiah agreeing that NBA players are now too nicey-nicey with one another.........at the same time they are meeting in a swank Vegas pool to be all nicey-nicey with each other? Simmons, as he admits, has just killed Isiah in print and he has absolutely no respect for Isiah, yet when he meets Isiah he sucks up to him and nods along at Isiah's ridiculous statements (he didn't kill the CBA? Um, before Isiah owned it, it existed; after he owned it, ...
Points in the Paint
BallerBlogger.com —
... Bill Simmons excerpts a section from his new new book, “The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy.” ...
2009-10 Basketball Books Preview
The Painted Area —
... basketball book of the year. Given that the landscape is wide-open for a broad and readable one-volume history of the NBA, The Book of Basketball has a chance to become nothing less than one of the most essential basketball books ever written. And given that Simmons' thoroughly researched columns on Elgin Baylor and the so-called "Clipper Curse" are perhaps his best work over the past year, we think the chances are promising, and we're certainly hopeful. • Excerpt - ESPN.com: Meeting Isiah • Excerpt - ESPN.com: Summer of ...
Malcolm Gladwell Demands Bill Simmons Be An NBA GM [Balls Deep]
Deadspin —
... Apparently, you do not. Because it's a classic Simmons move to do something like lobby for an NBA GM job, go to great pains to illustrate how many people support him and why it would be crazy awesome for a team to hire him because he inherently makes things more interesting, and then deflect all criticism of his efforts by saying he was only joking. He does this constantly, and it's one of his worst qualities. Because it means he's either being disingenuous, or just fucking obnoxious. Even in his excerpt from the book… ...
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