ESPN Is Splitting With Bill Simmons, Who Offers an Uncharacteristic Word Count …

Minutes ago, news broke that longtime sportswriting icon Bill Simmons will leave ESPN after contract negotiations between him and the network fell through. The New York Times reports that Simmons, one of the network's 

As Ty just wrote, just about everybody in our profession owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Bill Simmons — if not to him directly, then certainly for the trails he blazed. I have personally been reading him for about a decade, 

Bill Simmons is leaving ESPN years after 14 years. ESPN President John Skipper just released this statement: “I decided today that we are not going to renew Bill Simmons' contract. We have been in negotiations and it was 

Bill Simmons is leaving ESPN years after 14 years. ESPN President John Skipper just released this statement: “I decided today that we are not going to renew Bill Simmons' contract. We have been in negotiations and it was 

Watch this post-modern sports talk radio hyper-realist cry into his microphone about the departure of Bill Simmons from ESPN — a guy who talks about sports gambling and commissions directors to make documentaries — who will ascend into the heavens to