If Bill Simmons is going to accept Pablo Torre’s invitation/challenge to appear on his podcast, it appears as though it will ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover managerial and racial issues in sports economics This article is more than 10 years old. At the outset of the union ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The move comes less than a year after ESPN dispatched Grantland founding editor Bill Simmons via public execution in the pages of the New York Times. Simmons quickly closed a development deal with ...