In an e-mail exchange with Deadspin, Bill Simmons lashed out at his bosses at ESPN, sort of. Simmons maintained that he is still working for ESPN, but has reduced the rate of his writing for ESPN.com.
I still love writing my column and only re-signed last year because I really did believe that we had hashed out all the behind the scenes bullshit and come to some sort of agreement on creative lines, media criticism rules, the promotion of the column and everything else on ESPN.com. Within a few months, all of those things changed and certain promises were not kept. It’s as simple as that.
Simmons’ contract with ESPN runs through 2010. Those of us who are fans can only hope differences do not reduce him to “Bill Simmons’ Expiring Contract.”
15 May 2008 at 6:07 am
Ha, this reminded me off footballers negotiations, agents play behind the scenes, wheres the book deal, kinda thing, lot of it about this time of year, cool post.