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Articles Written by: BILL SIMMONS
by Bill Simmons
We love to romanticize chemistry, because we don't understand it.
A-Rod has even shattered the Tyson Zone.
A friend asked me this question last week: How many consecutive columns could I extract from Alex Rodriguez?
My ...
From BILL SIMMONS,
ESPN,
7 Apr 2009
by Bill Simmons
I'm the one who figured out Hickory High's title-game box score.
That's right, geeks on the APBR board: I'm talking to you.
A few weeks ago, I spent a Saturday at MIT's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, or as I dubbed it, ...
From BILL SIMMONS,
ESPN,
24 Mar 2009
You probably don't care. Wait, you definitely don't care. But there's an ongoing basketball atrocity happening right now in Los Angeles. As long as Mike Dunleavy remains employed with the Clippers, I cannot rest. I have to keep writing about it.
When ...
From BILL SIMMONS, PAGE 2,
ESPN,
6 Mar 2009
Midway through the third quarter of Super Bowl XLIII, I was congratulating myself for attending a party over writing about the game. Pittsburgh was driving with a 10-point lead. The Cardinals had a salad fork sticking out of them ever since the ...
From BILL SIMMONS, PAGE 2,
ESPN,
22 Jan 2009
Not to step on Jeff Foxworthy's toes, but here's how you know you just went 0-4 with your Round 2 playoff picks:
Take note Giant haters -- if you want to stop Eli just blow in his general direction.
• If you picked the Super Bowl MVP quarterback who ...
From BILL SIMMONS, PAGE 2,
ESPN,
16 Jan 2009
It's a new year … It's a new start … Let's bring it in with a Sports Guy mailbag! As always, these are actual e-mails from actual readers.
Q: Has any movie ever predicted the future of sports better than BASEketball did, in 1998? Ridiculous end zone ...
From BILL SIMMONS,
ESPN,
13 Jan 2009
THE B.S. REPORT
The Bernie Madoff Award for "Studio host who made you feel as if you were watching Bernie Madoff hosting 'Mad Money'"
Like everyone else, I did a quintuple take upon seeing that NBC had trotted out failed Lions GM Matt Millen as one ...
From BILL SIMMONS, PAGE 2,
ESPN,
9 Jan 2009
With only a year remaining in this decade, we still haven't settled on a name for it. Should we call it the aughts? The zeroes? The double ohs? The Robert Parishes? You got me. All I know is that I nailed seven of my 12 goals as a sports fan heading ...
From BILL SIMMONS, PAGE 2,
ESPN,
2 Jan 2009
With the possible exceptions of Dr. James Andrews, Isiah Thomas and Dick Bavetta, as well as the inventors of SportsCenter, cocaine and the JumboTron, nobody randomly altered the course of NBA history quite like Mike D'Antoni. I realized this while ...
From BILL SIMMONS,
ESPN,
29 Dec 2008
1. Kevin Durant quietly has heated up for the Seattle Sloppy Seconds in December, averaging 25.6 points, 7.1 rebounds and an astonishing 51.1 percent shooting from 3-point land. Less than four years until he ditches The Team That Shall Not Be Named ...
From BILL SIMMONS, PAGE 2,
ESPN,
26 Dec 2008
