Simmons why grantland

Still, someone needs to fund it. Since starting at The Ringer, Curtis himself has branched out into a style of reportage-based podcasting, drawing upon both his reporting and feature-writing skills. What other big-name editor than Bill Simmons would give such esoteric material the green light?

All the usual excuses. A lot of that was basically thrown out the window [at Grantland] and the only governor of how good we could be was ourselves.

Any Given Wednesday host and Ringer editor Bill Simmons right gave the US sportswriting scene a shot in the arm with his spectacular, short-lived sport and pop culture website Grantland.

Read more. Tom Brady says he ducked Trump questions to avoid team distractions. It served little purpose other than to puff up his own ego. And when the vain depart, the project is no longer.

I loved everyone I worked with at G and loved what we built. Ending anything that people have worked hard to create is inherently callous. But was the Grantland end particularly so? The writers will get their contracts. As for the supposedly galling fact that staffers were reportedly only told about the decision minutes before the release went out, save the outrage. Bill Simmons knows this, which is why his tweet is so maddening.

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