Bill Simmons
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Bill Simmons at the Tribeca Film Festival, April 2007
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| Born |
William John Simmons III September 25, 1969 Marlborough, Massachusetts |
| Education |
College of the Holy Cross Boston University |
| Occupation | Columnist, author, podcaster |
| Spouse(s) | Kari Crichton (m. 1999) |
| Children | Zoe Simmons Benjamin Oakley Simmons |
| Website | http://www.theringer.com |
William John "Bill" Simmons III (born September 25, 1969) is an American sports columnist, analyst, author, and podcaster. Simmons first gained attention with his website as "The Boston Sports Guy" and was recruited by ESPN in 2001. At ESPN, he wrote for ESPN.com and hosted his own podcast on ESPN.com titled The B.S. Report.
Simmons is known for a style of writing characterized by mixing sports knowledge and analysis, pop culture references, his non-sports-related personal life, and for being written from the viewpoint of a passionate sports fan. Simmons also has created numerous internet memes, most notably the Ewing Theory (though he claims he did not come up with the idea) and the Manning Face. In 2015, ESPN announced that it would not renew Simmons's contract, which expired in September 2015. Shortly thereafter, Simmons's online magazine Grantland, for which he served as editor-in-chief, was shut down by ESPN. He began a new digital venture, The Ringer, which launched in June 2016.
William John Simmons III was born on September 25, 1969, to William Simmons and Jan Corbo. His father was a school administrator, and his stepmother, Molly Clark, is a doctor. Simmons was an only child and grew up in Marlborough and Brookline, Massachusetts, before moving to Stamford, Connecticut, to live with his mother after his parents divorced when he was 13. He attended the Greenwich Country Day School and then Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, for high school. In 1988, he completed a postgraduate year at Choate Rosemary Hall, a prep school located in Wallingford, Connecticut. As a child Simmons read David Halberstam's book The Breaks of the Game, which he credited as the single most formative development in his sportswriting career.
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