All Things Sports Media Thread!!

[rolaholic]

Whitlock is straight trash,can barely stand to watch PTI when he's on :x

 

[f3rn7]

I like the Hollywood Prospectus pods as well as Jalen and Jacoby. Bill has been doing too much whining and has an ego. Espn wants to be the boss and keep their people in line. I'm sure Simmons will quickly find another spot but he won't get the exposure espn allows.

 

[dmbrhs]

BR is a piece of **** site that's honestly not even worth his effort. He should just do Fox, NBC or the NBA channel and call it a day.

It's not nearly as bad as it used to be. They have legitimate writers now. It was all part of their shift after they got bought out. Turner brought legitimacy to the brand. Simmons would do fine there. Also, again, NBA TV and BR are owned by the same parent company, so going to "the NBA channel" is basically the same as going to BR. And he definitely shouldn't go to a network that doesn't have the NBA in any capacity (FOX and NBC). That's why I think he'll go to Bleacher Report.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

BR is a piece of **** site that's honestly not even worth his effort. He should just do Fox, NBC or the NBA channel and call it a day.

It's not nearly as bad as it used to be. They have legitimate writers now. It was all part of their shift after they got bought out. Turner brought legitimacy to the brand. Simmons would do fine there. Also, again, NBA TV and BR are owned by the same parent company, so going to "the NBA channel" is basically the same as going to BR. And he definitely shouldn't go to a network that doesn't have the NBA in any capacity (FOX and NBC). That's why I think he'll go to Bleacher Report.

they've got a few established writers but trust me it's a piece of **** that's below Bill Simmons.

 

[IATT]

There's already talk of a lot the Grantland staff following him.

Their publisher also quit today.

Yeah. That site is done

dude just needs to take: Zach, jalen, jacoby and Juliet litman (does 'the right reasons' with jacoby)

 

[Benny Hinn]

Andy Greenwald is the only pop culture writer I follow there. He does great TV reviews.

Rest of the pop culture stuff is too LA hipster for me. I could just drive to Silverlake for that

 

[IATT]

listen to 'the right reasons' I don't even watch half the stuff they talk about.. but it's entertaining

started listening more because of Jacoby and them talking about mtvs challenges.. she also does a basketball related podcast which is entertaining 'nba after dark'

 

[blastercombo]

GOOD

 

[jjs07]

Speaking of Whitlock, did anyone see the piece Deadspin did on him and his Black "Grantland" site? Oh man...DS is blocked here at work, and it's a LENGTHY read...but everything you think of Whitlock in a negative way, is probably true. His site is a trainwreck.

 

[Benny Hinn]

So Simmons found out he got canned through twitter? Espn is ruthless...

 

[pmatic]

Speaking of Whitlock, did anyone see the piece Deadspin did on him and his Black "Grantland" site? Oh man...DS is blocked here at work, and it's a LENGTHY read...but everything you think of Whitlock in a negative way, is probably true. His site is a trainwreck.

Whitlock got skewered by Deadspin.

 

[RyGuy45]

JJs - that Whitlock article was gold. Greg Howard has lit into JW multiple times now and it gets better each time

That site is not going to make it.

I'm anxiously awaiting the shots Simmons will lob in the future with all things ESPN.

 

[sportsjunkie]

They need to pull the plug on Skip and Stephen A.

 

[jjs07]

Speaking of Whitlock, did anyone see the piece Deadspin did on him and his Black "Grantland" site? Oh man...DS is blocked here at work, and it's a LENGTHY read...but everything you think of Whitlock in a negative way, is probably true. His site is a trainwreck.

Whitlock got skewered by Deadspin.

It wasn't pretty Skewered is putting it lightly

ESPN seems like a complete disaster behind the scenes.

It would never happen, but I would love for Simmons to drop a book about ESPN that was as detailed as his Book of Basketball.

JJs - that Whitlock article was gold. Greg Howard has lit into JW multiple times now and it gets better each time

That site is not going to make it.

I'm anxiously awaiting the shots Simmons will lob in the future with all things ESPN.

My jaw was dropped while reading it.

Funniest part to me was Howard pretty much pulling the cover on Whitlock's alter-ego persona on Twitter.

 

[dacomeup]

I wonder if Zach Lowe will be next man up for ESPN? One of the best basketball minds in the business. Not sure how he'd do on TV, but he's fantastic. Same w/ Jon Abrams.

Yea, neither of those dudes have the charisma like Bill. He's a pretty polarizing character

 

[elpablo21]

Speaking of Whitlock, did anyone see the piece Deadspin did on him and his Black "Grantland" site? Oh man...DS is blocked here at work, and it's a LENGTHY read...but everything you think of Whitlock in a negative way, is probably true. His site is a trainwreck.

Every piece has been pure ether by Greg.

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And that brings us to today, with Skipper summarily dispatching Simmons. Given the timing of Sandomir’s report, ESPN’s scramble to put out a statement, John Walsh’s ignorance as of last night, and Simmons’s continued promotion of Grantland work, it feels like a spur-of-the-moment thing. Skipper, according to multiple sources, really was angered beyond all reason bySimmons’s appearance on The Dan Patrick Show  yesterday; employees are barred from going on the former ESPNer’s show without obtaining prior permission. Miller, more plugged into Bristol than just about anyone else, called it “the tipping point.”

"Lack of testicular fortitude," (On Godell) via @dpshow -- This was tipping point for @BillSimmons future with @espn
— James Andrew Miller (@JimMiller) May 8, 2015

 

[mr marcus]

listen to 'the right reasons' I don't even watch half the stuff they talk about.. but it's entertaining

started listening more because of Jacoby and them talking about mtvs challenges.. she also does a basketball related podcast which is entertaining 'nba after dark'

Love NBA after dark

 

[8pm at msg]

Bill is obnoxious as a tv personality but I enjoy his written work and all the other things he's put together.

Man went against the Evil Empire and lost

 

[mr marcus]

Of course it's ESPN caping the NFL

 

[District of Columbia]

I ******* hate Jason Whitlock

 

[jjs07]

and so it begins...

Shane Smith Wants Bill Simmons to Join Vice

 

[8pm at msg]

Perfect fit honestly.

 

[mr marcus]

Simmons on Vice would be

 

[pmatic]

Bill Simmons Should Be The Face Of Yahoo Sports

[Author was long YHOO at time of writing]

I don’t think Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer had even heard of Bill Simmons before this morning.

Simmons is not the kind of guy who shows up at the Met Gala, where Mayer spent at least $1 million to sponsor the event on Monday.

But, you can bet Mayer is being tutored as I write this on who Simmons is now that ESPN President announced on Facebook this morning that he’d decided not to renew Simmons’ contract.

[COLOR=#red][/COLOR]Reportedly, ESPN was not willing to go up to $6 million a year to keep him. The former AOL blogger who started Grantland will leave the Bristol mothership soon.

Where will he go? Most are saying a big media company like Fox who’s trying to catch up with ESPN or to start his own website/media company.

I believe he should work for Yahoo. He should really become the face of Yahoo Sports – which is one of the top sports sites already.

Here’s why a combination of Yahoo Sports and Simmons would make the most sense:

- Yahoo has already been betting big on TV-friendly personalities to drive viewership, clicks and videos (which monetize well for them) since Mayer took over as CEO 3 years ago, but, in truth, the strategy began even earlier than that under Carol Bartz and former head of Yahoo Americas Ross Levinsohn. The trouble is that Mayer has bet on the wrong “personalities” that don’t match what viewers want to see/read/click on. The biggest example of this is Katie Couric. Couric has inexplicably become the face of Yahoo News and now reports directly to Mayer. Couric is said to earn $5 million a year from Yahoo shareholders but – according to a recent analysis which Yahoo couldn’t refute – only generates about $2.5 million a year in revenue. Couric has been made the face of Yahoo’s Snapchat Discover Channel, despite the fact that few people on Snapchat probably know who she is. Bill Simmons is a perfect fit to be the face of Yahoo Sports and attracts a much younger demo than Couric. Even if Mayer was to sign him for $6 million a year, he could likely earn multiples of that back for Yahoo shareholders.

- Yahoo already has a very respectable stable of great sports journalists who all pre-date Mayer. Adrian Wojnarowski, Marc Spears, Dan Wetzel, Pat Forde, Kevin Iole, Greg Wyshynski (recently on a Simmons podcast). These are all great writers. They’d all immediately fit in to Simmons’ podcasts and video shows on Yahoo, until such time as Simmons could raid Grantland for other friends like Zach Lowe and Bill Barnwell.

- Simmons is based in LA. He won’t move. So, is Yahoo Sports. He could work out of the Santa Monica Yahoo offices.

- Simmons could generate a lot of video, podcasts and replace Couric as the face of Yahoo on Snapchat Discover. This is all where media is heading and he’s a perfect fit with it.

- Simmons loves to gamble. Yahoo’s Fantasy Sports is the biggest on the planet and they just announced that they’re getting into Daily Fantasy Sports. What a perfect cross-over opportunity to get Simmons discussing the Fantasy issues of the day.

- Although Fox can offer Simmons a boatload of money, he shouldn’t pull a Howard Stern here. Howard Stern turned his back on CBS to sign a lucrative deal with Sirius in 2004. Did Howard make a lot of money? Yes. But he lost something much more important: relevance in popular culture. No longer were his dynamite interview snippets covered by the media, because fewer people were listening. Fox Sports 1 is an embarrassment. No one watches it. Simmons would get forgotten on there, as well as his columns on FoxSports.com. He would be throwing his reputation he’s fought hard to create from nothing over the last 20 years out the window.

- Going it alone is a lot tougher than you think. Although Simmons mentioned Louis C.K. on a recent podcast and how he had “cut out the middleman” in going direct to the public, it takes a lot of work to stand alone as BillSimmons.com 0r Bill Simmons “the app”. Why not get some help from a big media partner like Yahoo – paying you a lucrative salary – if you can? It’s going to be less work and less stress. I think that’s going to be a lot more appealing to Simmons than the Louis C.K. model.

- Yahoo has been messing around with the concept of Yahoo Screen for a year now. It seemed like it was going to be their channel on Apple TV. Then it wasn’t. It seemed like their play on YouTube. Then, recently, Mayer seemed to indicate she was no longer supportive of the concept. Here’s a way to make people want to watch Yahoo Screen: put Bill Simmons content on there.

- This move also paves the way for Yahoo to start bidding for major sporting events like the NFL or NBA down the road. They should have done this anyway on the recent NFL rights bidding.

- Simmons likes to write about pop culture like movies and TV shows. Yahoo has all the verticals to let him do that. A broadcaster like Turner or Fox doesn’t.

- Despite all the people who like to diminish Yahoo as old and irrelevant, it still has almost a billion users. It is a major brand in the media world. And, unlike Fox Sports 1, it actually has a chance to be a lot bigger and more meaningful. Bill Simmons would help to do that.

This is a chance for Marissa Mayer to really make a move that all of Yahoo Sports – the most profitable vertical in all of Yahoo – would cheer for. Yahoo investors would cheer for it. It also gives Simmons everything he wants – relevance, reach, a great team from day one, and security.

Mayer needs to get this one right.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjac...simmons-should-be-the-face-of-yahoo-sports/3/

Damn, $6M. :x

 

[cash money 1999]

Lowe, Abrams, Goldsberry, Jalen and Jacoby, and the Hollywood Prospectus.

my guy andy greenwald and chris ryan
if anyone deserves to run grantland its jacoby ....thats probably the only way that im still gonna check fo them