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8 de may. de 2015 · March 2013: Simmons calls Skip Bayless’ feud with the Seahawks Richard Sherman, “awful and embarrassing.” Getty Image. Richard Sherman went on ESPN’s First Take, ripped Skip Bayless to shreds...
- Andrew Isaac
8 de may. de 2015 · Simmons noted on social media that he disapproved of the network’s decision to air the segment, which showed commentator Skip Bayless engaging in a heated argument with Seattle Seahawks ...
- THR Staff
12 de jul. de 2023 · Smith recalled an on-air dispute between his former ESPN colleagues Jalen Rose, who played 13 years in the NBA, and Skip Bayless from over a decade ago.
- Simmons Is Bad on TV, Period
- Low Ratings
- No Conflict
- It Was Just A Column/Podcast on Tape
- Kiss-Ass Interviews
- Too Boston-Centric
- Bad Timing
- No News Hooks
- Simmons Has Become Too PC
- Any Day But Wednesday
It's as simple as that. Some people come across great on TV. Others don't. Simmons never seemed comfortable on "Any Given Wednesday." He changed the format, his clothes, the set decoration, noted Ryan Glasspiegel of The Big Lead. But he rushed through his opening monologue. Then he dropped it completely. Those inside jokes and pop culture reference...
"Any Given Wednesday's" highly touted premiere June 22 premiere drew 260,000 viewers. Four months later, the October 26 episode bottomed out with a paltry 82,000 viewers. HBO could talk all it wanted about how many people taped the show on DVR and watched it later. But once Simmons dipped below 100,000 viewers for a first run airing, the writing wa...
Look, I'm not saying Simmons has to do a Skip Bayless heel turn and "Embrace Debate." But there was no conflict, no tension. Instead, we had Simmons giving back rubs to his Malibu buddies and frequent podcast guests. Everybody seemed to agree with everybody on anything. Everybody was pals. “Not to blow smoke up your ass, but I don’t think you get e...
This is really Simmons' fault as the executive producer. TV is a completely different medium than sportswriting, radio or podcasting. Too often, "Any Given Wednesday" came off like a rewrite of one of Simmons' columns come to life, noted Awful Announcing. Or a podcast with video. If the show was simply a Simmons podcast with video, why watch at all...
Simmons' interviewing expertise, honed on his hour-long podcasts, was supposed to be his strength. Instead, it became his weakness on a half-hour TV show. Nothing was allowed to breathe or develop. Worse, he fawned over his guests and never asked tough questions. This would have been OK if he was your normal talk show host. Except this was Simmons....
The Sports Guy made his name and fame by being a Boston homer for the Patriots, Celtics and Red Sox. But that didn't cut on a national show trying to reach a national TV audience. It started on the premiere episode, with Simmons and fellow Boston native Ben Affleck railing about Tom Brady and Deflategate. Isn't this the ultimate "us against them" s...
HBO launched "Any Given Wednesday" on June 22. That was three days after LeBron James' Cavaliers had come back from a 3-1 deficit to upset Steph Curry and the NBA Champion Golden State Warriors. Look, the NBA is Simmons' bread and butter. By the time he got on the air, there wasn't much happening in sports — except for baseball. And, of course, Sim...
The best sports talk shows riff off the biggest sports news of the day or the week such as ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" or FS1's "Speak for Yourself." Simmons and his team didn't do that. As far as I can tell, they skipped over the Colin Kaepernick-led player protests in the NFL. Simmons seemed to go for evergreen stories and essays that had no...
Simmons made his name as the politically incorrect blogger writing about strippers at the infamous Atlanta Gold Club trial and mocking ESPN's coverage of the WNBA. But marriage and fatherhood to a soccer-playing young daughter have changed The Sports Guy, said one TV executive. Now he sounds more like the politically correct social justice warriors...
I thought Sports Illustrated media columnist Richard Deitsch made a good pointon his SI Media podcast this week with John Ourand of SportsBusiness Daily and Jimmy Traina of Awful Announcing. Wednesdays is just a bad day for a weekly sport show. "If you recap stuff, it feels old. But if you preview stuff it feels old. So you're in no-person's land,"...
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ESPN has suspended Simmons from Twitter for a few days after he called the Skip Bayless-Richard Sherman First Take meltdown last week awful and embarrassing. An ESPN source told me that the...
26 de abr. de 2016 · Additionally, in the not-too-distant past, popular on-air talent Bill Simmons, Colin Cowherd, Jason Whitlock and Keith Olbermann all left ESPN as well.
Each week Skip will go IN on the hottest topics in the world of sports and share behind-the-scenes stories from some of the biggest moments in sports history. Expect A-list interviews and ...
