Bill Simmons, the longform-loving sports authority, announced this morning the imminent launch of The Ringer, his new sports-and-culture site. The move comes less than a year after ESPN dispatched Grantland founding editor Bill Simmons via public execution in the pages of the New York Times. Simmons quickly closed a development deal with HBO following his May 2015 ouster and created the Bill Simmons Media Group…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:41PM on February 17, 2016