<![CDATA[Deadspin: Espy]]> http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png <![CDATA[Deadspin: Espy]]> http://deadspin.com/tag/espy http://deadspin.com/tag/espy <![CDATA[Here's The AOL Column That Got Bill Simmons Hired By ESPN, In Which He Calls The ESPYs A "TV Holocaust"]]> ESPN's initial courtship of Bill Simmons has the air of an urban legend. Simmons wrote a column excoriating the bloated and self-congratulatory ESPY Awards, and that column was rapidly forwarded around Bristol, putting the Boston Sports Guy on ESPN's radar. Much like Aeschylus's lost plays, the ESPY diary was known only from a reference in another work. In one of his early Page 2 columns, Simmons wrote: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5880534&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What ESPN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO HEAR!]]> We still haven't watched the ESPYs from Sunday night, because, we dunno, it's the summer, and sometimes we like to pretend that the sun actually exists and will welcome us. From most accounts, though, the show was as tolerable as one could have hoped. We have no major issue with Jimmy Kimmel — not anymore, anyway — and we'll certainly take him over Lance Armstrong or Tony Danza. Kimmel isn't exactly Bill Hicks, but he's not Robert Wuhl or Nick Bakay either. And thank heavens for that. More »
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