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Bill Simmons is [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/simmons/index The Sports Guy], known for his pop-culture-reference-laden columns about current events in sports. He started out writing columns as the "Boston Sports Guy" in 1997, which were successful enough to attract the attention of ESPN; they hired him to write for their "Page 2" section in 2001, where he's been ever since. Since 2007, he's also hosted a regular [[Pod CastPodcast]] called ''The B.S. Report''. In the summer of 2011, Simmons became the editor-in-chief of [http://www.grantland.com/ Grantland], an ESPN-owned off-shoot blog staffed by a number of noted sports and pop culture writers, including several you wouldn't expect to write about sports (''[[Dave Eggers]]''?).
 
Simmons is a native of Boston, and as such is a massive fan of Boston's sports teams (especially the Red Sox and Celtics), but moved to Los Angeles in 2002; he has since started rooting for the [[Butt Monkey|Clippers]] in basketball and (during the 2011 lockout) the [[Butt Monkey|Kings]] in hockey.
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* [[Running Gag]]: Every week during the NFL season, he and Jimmy Kimmel Live writer "Cousin Sal" Sal Iacono guess the initial gambling lines for the upcoming games that week. Early in the 2010 season, Simmons began to laud praise on Tampa Bay Buccaneers starting quarterback Josh Freeman, claiming that he was a quarterback you could build a franchise around. Ever since Week 6 of that season, Sal has taken time during the recording of these podcasts to 'play a voicemail' left by Simmons on Sal's phone praising Josh Freeman, which is in fact Sal doing an over-the-top imitation of Simmons's voice and writing style. In 2011, these segments became more intricate, often including sound effects and involving other subjects. The Week 10 2011 edition of this 'voicemail' was so over-the-top it was even edited out of the released podcast, revealed days later on twitter to have involved 'Simmons' being raped in the YMCA sauna by Jerry Sandusky before hanging up.
** Freeman's sophomore slump in 2011 led to his eventually being replaced as the subject of the phone calls by Tim Tebow.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Is a massive fan of 80's films like ''[[The Karate Kid]]'', ''[[Teen Wolf (Film)|Teen Wolf]]'', and the ''[[Rocky (Film)|Rocky]]'' series as well as ''[[The Wire]]''. He makes constant reference to them and even sometimes organizes his columns around scenes or quotes from them.
** Ocasionally, he also makes references to ''[[Seinfeld]]'', another one of this favorite shows; he also has a liking to ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' and has even likened the best seasons with pantheon episodes of the show with particularly dominant seasons by pitchers who won the MVP Award in Major League Baseball.
* [[Southies]]: His old Boston buddies come across like this sometimes.
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