The problems: Bill Simmons, ESPN and the team that Bill Simmons and ESPN have assembled. Grantland's official launch is in the future, not the past, but already Simmons himself is a little tired ...

Grantland transfixed media types when it started ... including plum placement on ESPN.com and Bill Simmons’ twitter feed (now over 2 million followers). This project was more than a domain ...

Bill Simmons criticized ESPN for failing to communicate to Grantland staffers before the website was shuttered last week. But Simmons said he could have done things differently, too. Bill Simmons ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Bill Simmons and ESPN launched Grantland on June 8, 2011. To say the journalistic-literary world hated it would ...

Specifically, 1) What happens to Grantland now that Simmons is gone and 2) What happens if Bill Simmons builds a competitor to Grantland? We’re about ready to find out the answers to both those ...

Another day, another Bill Simmons podcast featuring very harsh words for his former employer. While interviewing Wesley Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left Grantland this month for ...

Don't do it with ESPN. RT @ParrishWalton: What are the lessons @BillSimmons learned from running Grantland from a business perspective? — Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) February 17, 2016 And on his ...

Grantland, originally established just four years ago by Bill Simmons as ESPN’s forum for longform sports writing, is no more. ESPN shut it down on Oct. 30 — five months after Simmons left the ...

ESPN is shutting down Grantland, its long-form sports and pop-culture website, “effective immediately,” some five months after founding editor Bill Simmons was forced out. The site has faced ...

Bill Simmons is bringing Grantland to television. After two years on the NBA Countdown set, the kingmaker of ESPN is taking his talents to… another show on ESPN. Simmons is departing Bristol ...

Dan Fierman, co-founder and editorial director of Grantland, will also be leaving the site for a position at MTV News. By Meena Jang Bill Simmons Took One for the Team - H 2014 In a tweet posted ...