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Truth, as much as Simmons can be a douche, The Ringer and Grantland before it have been to home to some great writing over the years.
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Super subjective, and I understand the necessity to broaden appeal/reader base, but it felt like everything on Grantland was written for me - and it was possible to consume close to everything on there if you saw fit.
Not knocking the content on the Ringer, and it was great to see BS get his bag outside the confines of ESPN but everything feels just a little more dilute on there. Hard to put into words. Maybe it was just the simplicity in web design of Grantland where everything was in the single column feed that made it feel more accessible.
Every December I pine for another of Remberts 'Who won 20XX'
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I've been reading simmons, since I became aware of him on ESPN, the ewing theory, and levels of losing were/are genius. I miss that he doesn't write anymore, think the media persona/podcast overload/ongoing ubiquity of everything he does have made him much more of a marmite character than he was when he was a kind of geeky cultural sports outsider who wore his fandom on his sleeve and just wanted others to rate the players/things he rated.
He's much more fun when the boston teams are losing, rather than winning.
Loved Grantland, Love The Ringer.
Interesting to see how much more culture (movies, music, politics) has been brought into The Ringer, it was always there in Grantland, but just so much less of it. And also how diverse the staff is, especially the growing percentage of female sports writers, feels like it's almost 50/50. I read a load of stuff on there and only really realise it's a woman writing it, when I try to pronounce the name (american's have weird spellings for names)
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cornelius_blackfoot
Yeah you get a load of good ones o. The ringer. Between that and the athletic, it means I don’t really have to spend anytime on Espn or sports illustrated, espn’s app and website are borked on mobile or were the last time I used them..