On Wednesday at precisely noon Et, longtime Espn columnist and crazy successful podcaster Bill Simmons will throw the switch on Grantland.com, a hotly anticipated and already controversial new website he's built for his Bristol overlords. The site, whose name pays tribute to groundbreaking early sportswriter Grantland Rice, will provide a healthy amount of pop culture with its sports content -- that is, the kind of stuff Simmons has been excelling at for years. He'll continue to churn out copy, only now he'll have less corporate branding and more help from friends in high...
- 6/8/2011
- The Wrap
Espn has unveiled some big details on the long-forthcoming sports website Bill Simmons, its star “Sports Guy” columnist, has been quietly building for the network. The “sports and pop culture” site, Grantland.com, is slated to launch in June. (The name refers to Grantland Rice, “the legendary sportswriter who helped elevate sports into American culture during the early 20th Century.”) Simmons and Espn have assembled a team of big-time writers -- including Chuck Klosterman, Malcolm Gladwell and Dave Eggers, who are listed as consulting editors -- and lesser-known bloggers for the site, which...
- 4/28/2011
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
I said the other day my first professional newspaper job was as a sports writer. It was the autumn of 1958, and I was writing for the high school paper. Urbana High sports were being covered for The News-Gazette by a young writer named Dick Saunders, who was promoted and asked to "name his own successor." How grand that sounds! He liked my stuff and hired me at The News-Gazette for, as I said, 75 cents an hour. To see my byline in print in a real paper for the first time was an experience not unlike winning the Pulitzer Prize. Better, probably.
You understand local sports were a big deal because the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign had a ferocious cross-town rivalry, and the University of Illinois brought the Big Ten to town. On weekends, I was assigned to cover the university swimming team, wrestling team, and so on, and...
You understand local sports were a big deal because the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign had a ferocious cross-town rivalry, and the University of Illinois brought the Big Ten to town. On weekends, I was assigned to cover the university swimming team, wrestling team, and so on, and...
- 5/11/2008
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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