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Google News: Grantland E-mails the Oscars

[Grantland] - Bill Simmons First 12 minutes: Billy hits a 250-yard drive down the middle on the par-5, lays up right in front of the water, plays it safe on the left side of the green but it rolls into the sand trap, chips back up, then two-putts for the bogey as

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[ESPN] - Bill Simmons and Joe House review the NBA season thus far and talk with Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love. Bill Simmons and Joe House talk with Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki. Nuggets forward Al Harrington comments on the season so far

Google News: LOU'S VIEWS: 'Osage,' you must see

[Indianapolis Business Journal] - Along with Kondrat's stunning work, consistently strong local mainstays Bill Simmons and Matthew Roland offer the most rich and compelling performances I've seen from them. OK, so I wasn't crazy about how just about every scene seems to end with the

Jimmy Fallon Adapts Pearl Jam's 'Jeremy' for Jeremy Lin

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[TIME] - In fact, Grantland's Bill Simmons proposed a cover version a few weeks ago. He mused to reader that a future Hollywood adaptation of the Knicks point guard's story should “have Pearl Jam remake 'Jeremy' with lyrics that center around a

1-on-1: All-Star Forward Kevin Love

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[Timberwolves.com] - Timberwolves forward Kevin Love arrived in Orlando for the All-Star Weekend on Thursday and quickly made the rounds through the national media circuit, including a podcats taping with Bill Simmons for The BS Report and an interview with Ahmad

Google News: BS Report: NBA All-Star Weekend Mega Podcast

[Grantland (blog)] - Chris Paul joins Bill Simmons to discuss life in Los Angeles, his first preseason game with the Clippers, and the Lakers-Clippers rivalry. Plus, Dave Cowens reviews his legendary career. In Part 2, Bill and Joe House talk with Robert Horry about his

Google News: The Mercy Rule - All-Star Weakened

[VICE] - ESPN's Bill Simmons should be counted on for another wide-eyed, faintly skeeve-inducing Safari Among the Urban People domestic travelogue, and fearless Fox Sports truth-teller Jason Whitlock (last seen in this space fearlessly telling jokes about Asian

Google News: From The Sports Guy Vault: Bill Simmons Ranks The Worst Fans In Sports

[Deadspin] - Back we go into the Bill Simmons archive, where we rescue Simmons's AOL Digital Cities work from the internet aether. Today's long-lost column: "The 20 Most Annoying Sports Fans Alive," originally published June 4, We start with the caveat that

Google News: BS Report: Simmons and The Reality Czar

[Grantland (blog)] - By Grantland staff on February 22, :17 PM ET ABC Less than 24 hours after The Suspiciously Real Fake Bachelor Wedding that rocked the TV world, Bill Simmons and Reality Czar David Jacoby discuss the inevitability of Fantasy Suite relations

Google News: GOP wage theft bill amended, then stalled in Senate committee

[Florida Independent] - Anitere Flores, R-Miami — introduced a handwritten amendment that would exempt Miami-Dade County's wage theft program from the Simmons' bill. Simmons initially opposed Flores' amendment “because it allows Miami-Dade to create a judicial system,” but

Google News: Show in review

[ESPN] - As the NBA season hits the halfway mark, Colin Cowherd and Bill Simmons engage in a lively debate over Jeremy Lin, Carmelo Anthony and possible trades for the Magic with Dwight Howard. Listen New Jersey Nets coach Avery Johnson talks about the

Google News: What we're talking about

[ESPN] - Tuesday, Colin Cowherd will welcome ESPN's Kurt Rambis (10:45 am ET), ESPN's Bill Simmons (11:15 am), Nets coach Avery Johnson (11:45 am) and ESPN NFL draft analyst Todd McShay (12:15 pm). Plus, vote in our poll question of the day on the right: Which

Lin in the All-Star game? No Way

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[San Francisco Chronicle (blog)] - One of the brightest writers on the NBA scene, Bill Simmons, made an interesting point the other day. “Let's say Derrick Rose can't play in the All-Star game because of his ailing back,” Simmons wrote on Grantland.com, “and the league says, 'Screw it.

Google News: Rovilson Fernandez: Scarf man, sportsman

[Cebu Daily News] - “Now I Can Die in Peace” was written by my favorite author, Bill Simmons. This is about his favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, which hadn't won in over a hundred years until 2004, when it finally became season champ.

Google News: True Lies

[SLAM Online] - Take for example ESPN.com's Bill Simmons, a white columnist who likes to use the term “white wash” when referring to an all-white basketball lineup. Simmons is not using it in a positive context; he is making fun of them. In this, he exposes a paradigm

Truck Driver's Analysis Predicted Lin's Potential as a Professional

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[New York Times] - Jazayerli also managed a Royals blog for a number of years before becoming a columnist for Bill Simmons's Grantland Web site, which operates as part of ESPN. Weiland and Jazayerli both cited the lack of a direct relationship to the game as one of the

Jeremy Lin and pro basketball's glass slipper

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[CBC.ca] - Bill Simmons who wrote the bestseller The Book of Basketball says he's never seen anything like it. "People don't come out of nowhere in the NBA." When Lin destroyed the Toronto Raptors earlier this week with a game-winning three pointer with 0.5

Bill Simmons Blasts Triple H, Update on Orton's Condition

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[Wrestlezone] - "Does this mean Carmelo is going to be Triple H — the egotistical, overrated star who couldn't handle that something good was happening without him, so he interjected himself into the storyline and ended up throwing a wet blanket on all the momentum?

Google News: espnW, ESPN's Women's Site, Explains wOBA

[FanGraphs (blog)] - Rykoff gives brief explanations of OPS, wOBA, FIP, UZR, VORP, WAR, and BABIP; it's virtually the same list that Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy, used two years ago with his sabermetrics primer. But more than anything, it gives an indication of whom ESPN

And Now, a Moment of Appreciation for Jeffries

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[New York Times (blog)] - ESPN columnist Bill Simmons even crafted “The Ewing Theory,” a notion centered on the idea that the Knicks were better without their so-called star center. Failure to live up to expectations aside, what did cause Knick fans to gush about Ewing was the

Google News: All The Pop Culture References From Bill Simmons's Earliest Known Column

[Deadspin] - We're diving back into the Bill Simmons archive, a previously undiscovered treasure trove of Sports Guy material from AOL Digital Cities. Today's is a special one, as it takes us more than two decades back in the Simmons oeuvre.

Event Shows the Many Faces, Challenges of Big Data

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[PCWorld] - Its software analyzes data derived from tracking pixels embedded in online ads and builds predictive models showing which types of ad impressions are most like to lead to sales, said CTO Bill Simmons during another panel talk.

Google News: Grantland E-mails the Grammys

[Grantland] - Bill Simmons: I think it's embarrassing that Springsteen now has his wife front and center playing guitar with the E Street Band. There's nothing worse than someone interjecting their spouse into the creative proceedings when she didn't really earn the

Piers Morgan and Bill Simmons talk about Barbra Streisand

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[Examiner.com] - Bill Simmons, "The Sports Guy," a famous writer and on-air columnist for ESPN as well as the editor-in-chief of Grantland.com, an online magazine, submitted his choice for a YouTube Hall of Fame of Grammy performance. His selection was "You Don't Bring

Slain Lutesville marshal honored with highway designation

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[Southeast Missourian] - Bill Simmons, McGee's nephew, said his uncle's dedication was a calling, one that went back several generations. McGee's grandfather, Samuel McGee, was one of the first local men to sign up for the Union Army during the Civil War and later became

UGA revisions: Living on a rural-urban fault line

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[Port Orchard Independent] - “We don't want a city built around us out here,” says Bill Simmons, who lives on 6.5 acres off SE Baker Road. Regardless of shifting UGAs and future expansion of city limits, some change is probably inevitable in the woodsy enclave where Simmons and

Google News: The Sports Guy's NBA All-Star Team

[Grantland] - By Bill Simmons on February 10, You may have noticed the NBA announced its All-Star rosters Thursday night. The timing seemed weird because the season started three minutes ago. I found myself particularly intrigued by this year's choices because

Google News: About Last Night: When It Rains, It Pours in Boston

[Grantland (blog)] - I'm not saying Boston has had a rough sports week, but Bill Simmons is standing behind me as I write, tapping a baseball bat against his palm and asking weird questions like, "Would you consider yourself a happy person, Ryan?

Dwight Howard should be in ring race with LeBron

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[Orlando Sentinel] - Larry Bird just weighed in on James, telling ESPN's Bill Simmons that if he had the choice to play with Kobe Bryant or LeBron, he'd chose Kobe. "But, if you want to have fun, like I did with Bill Walton, play with LeBron," Bird said.

Google News: Bill Simmons's Very First Visit To ESPN

[Deadspin] - We've been dipping into the Bill Simmons archive, a salvaged cache of the Sports Guy's old columns from AOL Digital Cities, none of which survives online. Today's jaunt down memory lane is a field trip Simmons took to Bristol in 1997

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