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As a lead columnist, [23] Simmons was one of the country's most widely read sports writers [26] and is considered a pioneer of sportswriting on the Internet. [23] His readership grew steadily over the following years. [23] In 2005, according to ESPN, Simmons' column averaged 500,000 unique visitors a month.
Now I Can Die in Peace is a collection of Simmons' articles from 1999 to 2004. It chronicles events such as Pedro Martínez 's 1999 Cy Young season, the loss to the New York Yankees in the 2003 ALCS, and the 2004 ALCS, when the Red Sox won the last 4 games after they lost the first three games of the series.
By DAVE SCHWARTZ The Cauldron Bill Simmons, ESPN's verbose, narcissistic, funny, insanely creative hood ornament, hung over the classroom like an occupational phantasm. One by one, as we went ...
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By JOHN DORN Bill Simmons has been relatively quiet lately, as his ESPN tenure comes to a silent close and his HBO career inches closer to open up next year. His columns have been nonexistent ...
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The idea for the series began in 2007 from ESPN.com columnist and Grantland.com founder Bill Simmons and ESPN's Connor Schell. [1] The title, 30 for 30, derived from the series's genesis as 30 films in celebration of ESPN's 30th anniversary in 2009, with an exploration of the biggest stories from ESPN's first 30 years on-air, through a series of 30 one-hour films by 30 filmmakers.
Grantland was a sports and pop-culture blog owned and operated by ESPN. [1] The blog was started in 2011 by veteran writer and sports journalist Bill Simmons, who remained as editor-in-chief until May 2015. Grantland was named after famed early-20th-century sportswriter Grantland Rice (1880–1954).