In 1998 Bill Simmons was 28 yrs old, making $50 a week as a contributor to AOL's Digital City Boston. With one goal in mind, to make the welcome screen.
Several years later, dreams came tru for Mr. Simmons. Now working as the sports Guy on ESPN.com, with his column reaching about 1.4 million page views a month, his weekly podcasts have been downloaded 21 million times this year via iTunes, and his new book, "The Book of Basketball" reached No. 1 on The New York Times notification best-seller list last week.
Recieving one of the higher salaries among all sports columnist, it is well desereved, and a tribute to his outstanding work ethic and fascination with his subjects.
Sports writers are changing roles these days. No longer being the reporter who follows a team on the road, and masters the catchy lead paragraphs, followed by a word limited word article reviewing the game.
They are now couch potatoes who have favorite teams, but follow entire leagues by scanning four TVs when they are not surfing YouTube for highlight reels of impressing dunks or obsessing over their fantasy leauge picks, says Bill.
Noam Cohen, the author of this article, says Mr. Simmons may be the first sports writer to see the games purely from the view point of the fan, and a very modern, unsentimental fan at that.
Currently, I am not too educated on the topic of Mr. Simmons, never coming across his name untill this article. I plan on learning more about him and I may even start to follow his column on ESPN's website.
It would be nice reciving information from a totally unbiased reporter.
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I am a huge fan of Bill Simmons. I download his podcasts via iTunes. He is hilarious, and quite enjoyable to listen to if you are a sports fan. I am glad that his hard work has led him to success. Sports media is the field I would like to work in someday so he is definitely an inspiration.
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