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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 [[Podcast]] 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]]''?).