Bill Simmons to Join HBO, Going From Free Agency to Freedom

Posted Jul 23, 2015
Bill Simmons’s move to HBO, which was announced Wednesday after he had spent nearly three months in limbo, takes him to a premium network that can give him even more freedom to speak his mind than ESPN did and a chance to develop a strong TV presence. (New York Times)

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