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Another story on Bill Simmons (from Richard Sandomir, who broke the news).

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/sports/bill-simmons-and-espn-are-parting-ways.html?ref=topics&_r=0

Any destination for Simmons is just speculation, but I don't think he'd go to FOX because Jamie Horowitz is now there, creator of "First Take" and he's going to make FS1 into ESPN-lite (debate shows and trolling).

I could see Turner being a spot for TV (and another company for everything else). You'd have the NBA and NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

Good for Bill Simmons. That's my overall reaction.
 
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BVistahC said:
Another story on Bill Simmons (from Richard Sandomir, who broke the news).

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/sports/bill-simmons-and-espn-are-parting-ways.html?ref=topics&_r=0

Any destination for Simmons is just speculation, but I don't think he'd go to FOX because Jamie Horowitz is now there, creator of "First Take" and he's going to make FS1 into ESPN-lite (debate shows and trolling).

I could see Turner being a spot for TV (and another company for everything else). You'd have the NBA and NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

Good for Bill Simmons. That's my overall reaction.
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That's depressing.
Now troll bait with a 5min commercial break every 2 minutes!
 
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Good for Simmons. I hardly ever read his stuff anymore (of course he only posts about 3 columns a year, so I couldn't if I wanted to), but he still wrote two pieces relatively recently that, if not perfectly written, at least I connected with on a deep level.

I'd say hopefully this will loosen the stranglehold that ESPN has on sports coverage, even just a little bit. But we all know that's not true.
 
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BREAKING: Bill Simmons not going to Deadspin!!!

http://deadspin.com/bill-simmons-is-a-shitty-writer-1703163076

Bill Simmons Is A Shitty Writer

So last week, ESPN canned Bill Simmons. And now everyone’s doing the fun thing where we speculate about where he will end up for the next phase of his career. Where’s ol’ Bill gonna go? Fox? Turner/Bleacher Report? NBC? A boutique startup underwritten by a messianic venture capitalist with a boner for the NBA? Who’s gonna land the Bro Whisperer? He won’t come cheap!

This seems like a good moment to point out that, wherever he winds up, it’s going to involve some rich asshole paying $7 million a year for a terrible writer. Bill Simmons is a terrible writer. Pioneering sports blogger! Tasteful employer of excellent writers! Elite podcaster! Good at coming up with documentary series ideas! Lousy writer. His writing is bad and not good.

Typically, criticism of Simmons’s writing takes the form of apologia. Before he became famous and powerful and got distracted by the life of a celebrity, the narrative goes, he was a talented writer with a unique gift for communicating in the everyman sports fan’s voice. The irony of this is that the insider access supposedly responsible for the decline of his writing has greatly improved Simmons’s basketball analysis, giving him only fairly recently in his career the very first thing he has ever done above replacement-level as a writer. Nowadays, when he deigns to form and write and publish considered thoughts on the subject, once every nine months or so, they’re more informed and credible than back in the days when you could learn all Bill Simmons had to say about basketball by watching the scene in White Men Can’t Jump where Woody Harrelson pontificates on the difference between white and black players.

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This is ESPN doing OK with this article:

100 things we're looking forward to in 2015

It seems like just yesterday that Ohio State was running its way to a national title, but we're only 100 days from the start of the 2015 season. The upcoming season will get off to a fast start on Thursday, Sept. 3, with the debut of Jim Harbaugh at Michigan (against Utah) and TCU traveling to Minnesota in what it hopes is the start of a playoff run. Lots will happen between the opener and the College Football Playoff, of course, but here are 100 things we hope to see this year. Here's a hint: Mr. Harbaugh is featured prominently throughout.

1. Jim Harbaugh vs. Urban Meyer

This is gonna be fun. Expect Michigan’s first-year coach to attack the current king of college football with Enthusiasm Unknown to Mankind. Harbaugh threw what might have been a barb at the Buckeyes in February over the signing of Detroit running back Mike Weber. While at Stanford, Harbaugh targeted Pete Carroll and USC and upset the Trojans in his first try. Meyer, equally competitive, surely knows what’s coming, and he’s not likely to let Harbaugh throw all the jabs. -- Mitch Sherman

6. All three Ohio State QBs scoring in the same game

22. Cardale Jones’ aggressive-aggressive tweets

41. Joey Bosa’s latest sack celebration:
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66. Ezekiel Elliott’s latest fashion statement after the NCAA banned crop-top jerseys

73. Can the B1G end its Heisman drought?

Troy Smith in 2006 was the last Big Ten player to win the Heisman, and every other power conference has claimed one since. But with Penn State's Christian Hackenberg and a quartet of premium talents at Ohio State -- QBs Cardale Jones, J.T. Barrett and Braxton Miller, plus RB Ezekiel Elliott -- this streak could be nearing an end.

92. The next breakout Twitter star

Cardale Jones is on fire lately -- who's next?

Entire list: http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/111203/100-things-were-looking-forward-to-in-2015
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Troy Smith in 2006 was the last Big Ten player to win the Heisman, and every other power conference has claimed one since. But with Penn State's Christian Hackenberg and a quartet of premium talents at Ohio State -- QBs Cardale Jones, J.T. Barrett and Braxton Miller, plus RB Ezekiel Elliott -- this streak could be nearing an end.
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Still can't fathom the non-stop fellatio-fest on Hackenberg. He had more INTs than TD passes (15 to 12), a mediocre 55.8% completion percentage, and was #98 in passing efficiency...
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
Still can't fathom the non-stop fellatio-fest on Hackenberg. He had more INTs than TD passes (15 to 12), a mediocre 55.8% completion percentage, and was #98 in passing efficiency...
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Yeah, and Sparty's Conner Cook (besides having a better supporting cast) had better numbers in every category last year including their head to head meeting. Why wouldn't ESPN of mentioned Cook instead?

Cook: http://espn.go.com/college-football/player/_/id/512705/connor-cook
Hackenburg: http://espn.go.com/college-football/player/_/id/552329/christian-hackenberg

I don't think Cook has much of a chance of winning it (maybe slightly above zilch); however, I think his chances are better than Hackenburg's. OddsShark (Bovada) is listing Cook at 20/1.

http://www.oddsshark.com/ncaaf/odds-win-heisman-trophy
 
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