Bill Simmons
Bill Simmons
William J. "Bill" Simmons IIIis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 September 1969
CityMarlborough, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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It does several things, one there is no shareholder accountability and there are no federal and state taxes being paid so it will always be less in that regards.
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Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will stay here.
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I've learned that water is certainly very complicated. Water and wet are two different things. But I'm aware of the issues coming up. There is a learning curve and I'm a little higher up on that curve.
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as if they're better people because they root for a baseball team only because A) they grew up within two hours of Yankee Stadium, B) they jumped on the bandwagon as a kid because they wanted to be associated with a winner or C) they have no soul.
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I was in 26 different placements and three group homes.
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I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.
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The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
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You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
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But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.
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I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.
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One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.
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There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
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If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If you have a community owned, municipally owned facility, those extra resources are being reinvested in the community and they can be going to weatherization and other projects that are vested in the community.
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In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.