bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

idk man! they cld!

that's when middlebrow ppl go out and have brunch of whatever

someone summarize where mad men is at for me i havent seen it in ~3 seasons

also tell me how it will end

brunch is good i support brunch brunch is the good kind of middle brow

tbf we don't read the same things there at all

ben lindbergh and, perhaps to a lesser extent, jonah keri are not easily replaceable for baseball

katie bakes and mcindoe are basically the only decent hockey stuff espn does

charlie pierce (and you can't tell me he was all 'i will only be edited by bill simmons')

the av club stuff, tho, sure

xp to av club!

summary: don is slowly receding as the rest of society moves forward

that is a pretty adept summary

wow dons life is dark is he still extremely handsome at least

he is v handsome yes but roger has a mustache

oh what the hell roger

i like keri a lot

pierce, i enjoy his political stuff for esquire but i don't think writing about sports is really his thing

i cannot comment on hockey

yeah, i can't really comment on nba, though i don't doubt lowe is great

i guess mainly what i dislike(d) about simmons was that he wasn't a sports guy, he was an nba guy plus some nfl and maybe other stuff if boston was involved. i distinctly remember a column he wrote during the last nba lockout about taking his kid (who loved it) to a kings hockey game and the whole piece was holy shit this is fun but larry/michael/magic/fredo etc.

much like when wilbon, while at the wapo, would write his annual hockey column comparing ovechkin to jordan. (tbf, wilbon can't do anything without referencing jordan)

interim editor-in-chief:

http://espnmediazone.com/us/files/2009/10/Connelly_Chris_bio.jpg

LOL

-----A POST ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE L.A. AREA------

We need 2-3 more quality players for my daughter's under-11 club soccer team. In February, we made the Final 4 of the State Cup (Flight 2) thanks to our phenomenal coach (Jacob Tudela). I was more excited about this than the Pats winning the Super Bowl. Fine, it was a tie. But if you live in the L.A. area and have a 10 year-old female soccer fiend living in your house - or, if you want to rent someone else's 10 year-old female soccer fiend (just kidding) -- email our manager at la✧✧✧.g✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ to swing by for a tryout. And feel free to pass this post along to someone else with a 10 year-old daughter in L.A. who loves soccer.

PS: I'm only doing this for one reason - because my daughter made me. Nobody is scarier than a moody 10 year old-girl. Not even serial killers. Anyway, here's the e-mail that our manager sent out earlier this week.

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I’m reaching out to let you know about the club soccer team that my 10-year-old daughter plays on, which is currently holding tryouts. (Yes, we’re at that point in our lives.) I have just taken over as manager, so I guess technically I’m supposed to be sending out this email, but here’s the thing: I would do it anyway, because of the fantastic experience my daughter has had playing for this club over the last two years.

The team is part of the LA United Futbol Academy, or LAUFA, though many of the girls played together as Downtown SC until this past January, when, as an Under-10 team, they came in third at the Southern California State Cup for Tier 2. Third place, out of 100 teams, for what was a small, independent club. It was a great run that was a credit to the girls and to the work of our coach, Jacob Tudela — the son of a legendary club coach, brother of an ex-LA Galaxy player, and a talented player and passionate teacher of the game (in English and Spanish) in his own right. When I was in college (an increasingly dim memory) I played for Bob Bradley, who would go on to coach the US national team; he helped nurture a love for the game of soccer and a deep respect for how it should be played, so I had a high standard for whoever I would trust to train my daughter. Jacob has exceeded that standard — he’s great with the girls, and they love playing for him. Seriously. Come see for yourself.

As the team has moved up to the U11 age bracket, the games have moved up to 11 v. 11 on full-sized fields, and though we brought on some new players in the spring, we’ve had a couple of families move away, so we still have roster spots available. We practice from 6-8pm, two days a week: on grass on Mondays and on turf on Wednesdays in the middle of L.A. If you’re looking for a club for your under-11-year-old daughter, you’re welcome to get in touch with me through la✧✧✧.g✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ and I’d be happy to invite you and your child to a practice. She can have a training session with Jacob and meet our girls, who may remind you of your girl — super-competitive on the field and super-goofy off it. They go to a lot of different schools and have formed friendships through the team that have become as important as the soccer. And we have a pretty okay bunch of parents, too, which helps when you’re all stuck together in a Radisson outside of San Diego for a tournament weekend.

Ours is the first girls’ team LAUFA has had, so we’re still a bit under the radar. And we don’t mind that — the girls have enjoyed going to tournaments and surprising the bigger, better-known clubs. But as we prepare for the fall season the team needs to grow a bit, so I’m getting on a small, virtual soapbox to let people know that the best girls’ soccer club in LA may be one they’ve never heard of.

I’d be happy to answer any questions anyone might have about LA United (including scholarships and financial aid, which are available) or to arrange a practice session for your daughter.

Cheers,
Kirk Rudell

jeez wow

i don't get it

how is simmdog involved

did he write the first half of that or what

ya obvs

he spamming his contacts looking for quality ten y/o soccer players for his daughters traveling team

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/DataTNG.jpg

oh it was from his facebook, just googled - am surprised deadspin doesn't have a post on this i just looked, don't they have a quota for this stuff? magary and marchman slacking on the schadenfreude tip

not sure if a facebook post, being a place where one does tend to put stuff like that, really qualifies as spamming one's contacts in the traditionally irritating way but hey what do i know

the point i think more is that hes an all in soccer dad

In February, we made the Final 4 of the State Cup (Flight 2) thanks to our phenomenal coach (Jacob Tudela).

10 year olds

remember when bill simmons had a mustache for a minute

that was good times my pals

Nobody is scarier than a moody 10 year old-girl.

(whines) "Daaaaaaad! Why Don't you doooooo something?"

i guess you can say lol soccer dad but i'm not really sure what's wrong w/this? i'm sure i could get into a similar discussion with half the guys i work with.

Oh for fuck's sake, will somebody hire him already? The fucking NBA Finals are going on and these Zach Lowe articles and podcasts are not cutting it.

hey now the lowe posts have been great - the shane battier one, of all things, was particularly entertaining

i've been subsisting on Le batard's show

whitlock out lol

before the site even launched nice

feel like the lesson when starting one of these celebrity journalist sites like matt taibbi with racket is just start publishing right away even if its just a blog idk how u f around w the org shit for year w/o actually writing anything

so happy to see whitlock fail tbh

was it that deadspin article that flamed him?

so happy to see whitlock fail tbh

― k3vin k., Friday, June 12, 2015 4:56 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seconded

he is bad its true

i think the deadspin may have compounded it some but more just brought to light some of the reasons why it was a fiasco

seems ~awkward~ that he's staying on as a writer

he's more of a loose cannon than simmons ever was, more clearly a nightmare to work with, and would seem to offer less . . . upside

yeah wldnt be surprised to see him bought out of his contract in the near future

The fact that people at ESPN thought Whitlock running this thing was a good idea in the first place suggests to me that even if it does get off the ground, it will be a hateful pile of shit.

i never visit espn home page does it always have deez branded boxes

http://i.imgur.com/upFUhOq.jpg

y

altho it used to have a lil 'bill simmons presents' next to grantland rip

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CImw_NAWcAAwbuJ.png

srsly are there still ppl out there who like this basic ass face pop culture referencing bull crap

ya i think this is p popular actually

modern cracker barrel humor

like im p sure this is my lil brother's entire sense of humor