![]() In 1997, unable to get a newspaper job, Simmons "badgered" Digital City Boston of AOL into giving him a column, and he started the web site while working as a bartender and waiter at night. organizing food runs, working on the Sunday football scores section." Three years later he got a job as a freelancer for Boston Phoenix but was broke within three months and started bartending. The September after grad school, Simmons started working at the Boston Herald as a high school sports reporter and editorial assistant, mainly "answering phones. Career Origins įor eight years following grad school, Simmons lived in Charlestown working various jobs before eventually landing a job at ESPN. Subsequently, while living in Brookline, Massachusetts, he studied at Boston University, where he received his master's degree in print journalism two years later. in political science (his primary focus was the Middle East, which he often cites in his columns by way of saying his sportswriting career has nothing to do with his degree) and a GPA of 3.04. He also restarted the school's parody newspaper and started a 12-14-page, underground, handwritten magazine about the people in his freshman hall called "The Velvet Edge." He graduated in 1992 with a B.A. While attending the College of the Holy Cross Simmons wrote a column for the school paper, The Crusader, called "Ramblings" and later served as the paper's sports editor. 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. In 1988, he completed a postgraduate year at Choate Rosemary Hall, a prep school located in Wallingford, Connecticut. He attended the Greenwich Country Day School and then Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, for high school. 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. His father was a school administrator, and his stepmother, Molly Clark, is a doctor. ![]() Simmons was born on September 25, 1969, to William Simmons and Jan Corbo. 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. At The Ringer, he hosts The Bill Simmons Podcast. He hosted Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons on HBO for one season in 2016. Simmons founded The Ringer, a sports and pop culture website and podcast network, in 2016 and serves as its CEO. Report and was an analyst for two years on NBA Countdown. At ESPN, he wrote for, hosted his own podcast on titled The B.S. Simmons first gained attention with his website as "The Boston Sports Guy" and was recruited by ESPN in 2001, where he eventually operated the website Grantland and worked until 2015. William John Simmons III (born September 25, 1969) is an American podcaster, sportswriter, and cultural critic who is the founder and CEO of the sports and pop culture website The Ringer.
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