they really should just rename it the Most Outstanding Player award. I don't think Rose has been that.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 17 February 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Bill Simmons’ new site will be entertaining, well-written, funny and provocative. Its development is driven by Bill’s vision to provide fans a place to spend time, read, and think. * The graphic style of the site, designed by renowned magazine designer Walter Bernard, will be simple and elegant, in order to set it apart from the daily rush of sports news. * The site will host Bill’s columns and podcasts, but unlike Page 2, it will not be based on the sports events of the day or the current sports calendar. * In addition to Bill’s works, the site will include columns and essays about sports and pop culture from leading journalists. * Bill is building a team of lesser-known, talented young writers and editors to capture new voices and commentary on sports and pop culture. * We anticipate some edgy topics and writing, but such content will remain the exception. * About 70 percent sports, 30 percent pop culture, with less video than other ESPN sites. * Bill sees the site functioning with limited fan interaction, including a selection of about 300 fans with exclusive access to comment on the site and interact with contributors.
* The graphic style of the site, designed by renowned magazine designer Walter Bernard, will be simple and elegant, in order to set it apart from the daily rush of sports news. * The site will host Bill’s columns and podcasts, but unlike Page 2, it will not be based on the sports events of the day or the current sports calendar. * In addition to Bill’s works, the site will include columns and essays about sports and pop culture from leading journalists. * Bill is building a team of lesser-known, talented young writers and editors to capture new voices and commentary on sports and pop culture. * We anticipate some edgy topics and writing, but such content will remain the exception. * About 70 percent sports, 30 percent pop culture, with less video than other ESPN sites. * Bill sees the site functioning with limited fan interaction, including a selection of about 300 fans with exclusive access to comment on the site and interact with contributors.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
'exclusive commenters' is kinda an interesting idea, its another tier of writers for people to get to know
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
* The site will host Bill’s columns and podcasts, but unlike Page 2, it will not be based on the sports events of the day or the current sports calendar.
this seems p unrealistic
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i assumed that was referring to the rest of the content more than bill's stuff.
and i'm v. glad the site will not be commenter free for all
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
the two confirmed hires are klosterman and katie baker btw
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
and this guy
williamfleitch Will Leitch Two great great hires in a week. RT @LaneBrown Exclusive! Today is my last day at Vulture. I'm joining Bill Simmons' new site56 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
huh--he is just some blogger i guess?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://nymag.com/author/lane%20brown/
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
"deputy entertainment editor"--i guess he will be the main pop-culture person or something
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 February 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
the pop culture part of this site is going to be painful as will the aspiration toward a literary sports writing ideal, predictions
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 February 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
klosterman's sports essays are usually p. good, really liked the football one in his new book, basically in favor of anything that lets him do some more sportswriting
not in favor of anything that lets simmons write more pop culture stuff, his dedication to survivor and road rules is mind-boggling
― i see you're still wearing bs on tv (agent hibachi), Friday, 18 February 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
another writer for his new site http://thisrecording.com/today/2011/3/4/in-which-we-sound-the-airhorn-for-mollys-very-last-this-reco.html
― ice cr?m, Friday, 4 March 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
interesting considering how strange he can be abt women in his writing that he hired a woman who is often overtly feminist in hers, good on him http://thisrecording.com/today/2011/2/22/in-which-we-teach-you-how-to-be-a-woman-in-any-boys-club.html
― ice cr?m, Friday, 4 March 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
let's hope they don't have to be in the same office, let alone the same fantasy football league
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 March 2011 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, guessing she'll be in "culture" section, not simmons' man-cave
― pearsonic, Friday, 4 March 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the new site is called "grantland" and a couple of preview pieces has been posted via his twitter
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 May 2011 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
named after Grantland Rice, "a legend in the sports journalism world"
Anyone read anything by Grantland Rice? I'm not familiar.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 2 May 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
no i had no idea who he was
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 May 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
a 6k word molly lambert piece published by espn.com = the definition of http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e2014e5f4860df970c-800wi
― J0rdan S., Monday, 2 May 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
u don't like molly?
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 May 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway i'm excited for this -- i don't really care about a lot of the big names but chris ryan, bill barnwell, katie baker & tommy craggs (assuming he stays on) are all A++
― J0rdan S., Monday, 2 May 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
xp her writing style, not really no
in doses
omg this katie baker piece is a monster too.
good thing i am stuck in this classroom.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 May 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that thing is long as hell
― J0rdan S., Monday, 2 May 2011 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I rate players on the Larry Bird scale. How close are they to Larry Bird. Magic Johnson was 97% Larry Bird, and Lebron is 93% Larry. Eric Dampier and Brendan Haywood are separated by about 73 MicroLarries, mostly because Haywood brings more presence.
The biggest question when determining how Larry someone is: does he have that "it"? Larry bird had "it." That presence that made the fans in the stand know that any minute, you could hit that big shot. I came up with this talking to my friend Dwayne at the Celtics versus Bulls in 1988. It was pretty cold February evening, and the Cs were down by 2 with 5 seconds left on the clock. If they didn't hit this shot, it would be a long, cold walk back to my car. Bird got the ball at the elbow on an inbounds, and I turned to Dwayne and said, "Bird's going to hit it. I can feel it." As the shot went in, I knew I was on to something.
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Back then it was tough to get by as a sports journalist. Povitch, Kornheiser, and a few other dominated the columns. I would sell some columns to the Globe occasionally, but it was mostly local papers. None of them, of course, covered travel or tickets. I would suck dicks in times square at $5 a pop so I could buy a ticket to the Garden, which was what we called MSG at the time since TD hadn't been built yet, to cover the Cs at the Knicks. Tickets were $22.75, but I wasn't about to charge $2.75 for that fifth dick. Besides, I wanted a soda, usually Sprite. One time this guy hit me right between the eyes with his cum. It was amazing. "You've got Bird accuracy, man." I told him. He paused for a second before he zipped up. "Yeah, uh, sure," he said before he walked away. I was hoping he recognized me from my columns but then remembered none of them had printed my picture next to them yet. My big break would be five years and two Celtics championships away
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I turned to my buddy Weasel and asked "Hey Weez, what do you think Paul Pierce's dick looks like?" He was like "Oh for sure it's gotta be wicked huge. Do you think Bill Russell had a bigger dick? Which one would you rather suck?" I told him that Russel probably had a bigger dick, but it would get uncomfortable with his hands on the back of your head since he had all those championship rings.
I got into the office and asked Cheryl, the intern, what she thought. Anyway, I've been suspended and my column will be back on ESPN.com at a date to be determined.
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
think abt "it"
― Clay, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
he said in his 'the wire'/playoffs column today that he or GMs (or whoever) never thought that z-bo would have a sense of 'the moment' like he did when he went off at the end of game 5 vs the spurs & it struck me as such a dumb thing to say -- z-bo taking over the end of a game when he's clearly been the best player in the series doesn't mean he had any sense greater than common sense
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
lol ade
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Whenever you put together a circlejerk, you've got to follow my formula. Five megasplashers aren't going to get the job done, because they all bring the same thing to the table. It's like five Daniel-sans all trying to crane kick one Billy Zabka. That's too many cooks in the kitchen, which is something that's just going to spill, something I learned when cooking chicken wings with too many guys in Jimmy Kimmel's kitchen, and we lost a bunch on the floor to my dog Dooze.
Anyway, what you want is a real jizzmaker, someone like Peter North, who is the Larry Bird of cum. Then you want a quiet leader type, your Parrish/Bill Russell types, someone like Sean Michaels. Then want a playmaker, someone willing to do it all himself, your Ray Allen/Seymour Butts. Finally, you round it out with two character guys willing to cum off the bench, the kind of guys who'll do the face drip from above or maybe let out a YAAAAAHHH that gets the crowd going.
Without it, you're the Heat, and you're not going to win according to my formula, which I wrote here in 1999 and updated here in 2001, and here, here, here and here, after last year's finals. But this will always work.
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
haha it makes sense that youre a goon
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
at least that wire piece had the upside of being the last straw with me ever reading this guy again. been waiting on that one for a few years.
― Clay, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
the funny thing is that i found the durant/westbrook = avon/stringer analogy from months ago to be acceptable, but this was a bit much
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
wondering if z-bo or jamal crawford has had the bad guy gone good story this playoffs
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
jamal crawford's an extremely good guy! just not a Proven Winner or w/e
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah def! he's been a fave of mine for years, z-bo too. and one day ya'll are gonna come around on j.r. smith too
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
so is this grantland thing gonna fail horribly or what, seems like classic overreach
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:42 (thirteen years ago) link
The best thing Simmons can do is just let the folks he hired run the thing, because he did hire a lot of worthwhile people.
Still, "Grantland"?
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm picturing a fansite devoted to brian grant, run by bill simmons
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:57 (thirteen years ago) link
thatd be a site i could really get into
i like some of the writers but i dont think theyll necessarily have wide appeal particularly to the espn demo - the whole high minded long form anti news cycle concept is not exactly a proven page view generator - and simmons has p much lost his fastball and seems uninterested in writing, he at least used to be v readable now its just like v sludgy
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
poor brian grant has Parkinson's :(
― Clay, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
!!!! whaaaaa
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
damn guy is only like 40
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah he lives in Portland now and does some work with the team. There's a big Parkinson's dinner at the RG every year that he hosts (my gf worked it and served Michael J Fox last year!) but every time he speaks during halftime during a fundraiser or whatever it's super heartbreaking :(
― Clay, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 07:37 (thirteen years ago) link
he at least used to be v readable now its just like v sludgy
yeah there are some people who could keep cranking out good columns while also doing hours of podcasts and managing a new website and having a family and whatever else, but he is not one of those people.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda doubt family takes up much of his time tbh
― i see you're still wearing bs on tv (agent hibachi), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ill probably drop in on this site just to see what a few of the writers (and klosterman- he's a great sports almost-troll) are doing but yeah...even the name seems off.
― i see you're still wearing bs on tv (agent hibachi), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link