Ep. 71: Sports Media Watch w/ Bryan Curtis

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons welcomes Ringer editor-at-large Bryan Curtis to discuss the future of studio shows, the biggest problem with the political media (10:00), the "insider" model (19:00), the importance of scoops (24:00), locker-room access (31:00), underproducing TV and radio (40:00), the return of Rick Reilly (43:00), OKC and the media (50:00), and Steph Curry's magnetic similarities with Magic (54:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.7	Mid-March. Sorry. TheRinger.com. Let's go.
1:15.3	When I think mid 90s voice coach rap, I think Brian Curtis.
1:20.8	I was a whole player in that wasn't I?
1:22.8	I got an underrated part of my resume really. It really was.
1:26.1	Editor at large of the ringer.
1:28.6	Formerly of Grantland, formerly of the Daily Beast, formerly of Slate, formerly of Play, which was a very, very, very underrated
1:37.8	part of the New York Times magazine. Yeah. Kind of.
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