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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Arch Manning, NFL Announcers, a New Deal for 'PTI', the Ballmer Scandal, and a Crawford-Canelo Megafight With Van Lathan Jr., Bryan Curtis, and Chris Mannix

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Van Lathan Jr. are joined by Bryan Curtis to discuss Arch Manning, college football, media storylines, and more (3:39). Then, Chris Mannix joins to talk about the Steve Ballmer scandal (51:40) and the Crawford-Canelo fight (01:17:05). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Van Lathan Jr., Bryan Curtis, and Chris Mannix Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Steve Ceruti The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Bill Simmons podcast, presented by a Fandul Sportsbook. We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where I put up a new rewatchables for you on Monday night. We did Legend of Billy Jean. It came out 40 years ago. It was a one for us for me and Chris Ryan. It's an absolute cable classic. It was on for 25 straight years. You can find it all over the place on 2B, on to be other places uh but we had a lot of fun talking about that movie because it created the internet a lot of people don't realize i was us on the prestige tv podcast with joanna robinson and rob mahoney talking about episode one of task on hbo a show that we really like uh It's a murder mystery, so we did a recap, we made some predictions.

0:41.3

So if you like that show, you can check that out.

0:45.3

Don't forget about all of our football content, because football season started the ringer gambling show going every day now.

0:50.3

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0:58.3

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1:03.9

Saturdays live. McShay is going to be live on Saturdays to during the college football season.

1:08.5

So we got a lot of good stuff going on.

1:10.9

Coming on this podcast, Van Lathen is here. We tried something with the studio where he joined me,

1:15.7

almost like it's a TV show. And we brought Brian Curtis on to talk about some college football,

1:22.1

University of Texas, media stuff, the new NFL college, all the media storylines that are happening, non-players

1:29.8

versus players. We talked about PTI, a whole bunch of media things. And then after that, Chris Mannix,

1:35.8

we had to talk more, more Ballmark Clippers, Aspiration, Kauai, a scandal that I am now finding

1:43.0

a lot of humor in, but Mannix gave us an update of where we're going

1:46.3

with that. But then the big reason, ban requested this. We want to talk about Crawford and

1:51.3

Canelo, which has a chance to be one of the biggest fights of this decade, if not the biggest,

1:57.0

if it's actually a good fight. But a lot of great storylines with that. It's coming up this

2:00.9

weekend. So this is an action-packed one. Let's take a break. Let's bring in Pearl Jam.

2:06.8

And then we're going to talk to Brian Curtis. It's the Bill Simmons podcast presented by Fandall

2:10.9

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2:16.0

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