{"id":72010,"date":"2015-05-08T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T16:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=72010"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T16:26:38","slug":"bill-simmons-leaving-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=72010","title":{"rendered":"Bill Simmons leaving ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simmonsbill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-72011\" alt=\"simmonsbill\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simmonsbill.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; ESPN says that it is parting ways with Bill Simmons, one of its top personalities who created the Grantland website and was instrumental in the network&#8217;s documentary series.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Network president John Skipper said Friday that he decided not to renew Simmons&#8217; contract. He said ESPN was negotiating an extension, but that &#8220;it was clear it was time to move on.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ESPN suspended Simmons for three weeks last year after he called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a liar in a profane podcast.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Skipper said Simmons has produced great content for ESPN and the Bristol, Connecticut-based network gave Simmons many opportunities. He said ESPN remains committed to keeping Grantland operating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; ESPN says that it is parting ways with Bill Simmons, one of its top personalities who created the Grantland website and was instrumental in the network&#8217;s documentary series. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Network president John Skipper said Friday that he decided not to renew Simmons&#8217; contract. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72014,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72010\/revisions\/72014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}