After Bill Simmons and ESPN parted ways, there was a lot of speculation about what would happen to Grantland, the sports-and-pop-culture vanity site owned by ESPN. It turns out that Grantland's ...

Simmons said on “The Bill Simmons Podcast” that the Worldwide Leader “lost its soul” when it fired his close friend Lowe, ...

There are two reasons, according to a source familiar with ESPN's thinking: Bill Simmons's "halo effect." Grantland's "engagement." "Halo effect" is jargon used to describe how having Bill Simmons ...