October 1, 2009
Bill Simmons, ESPN’s “Sports Guy,” said that HBO helped to inspire him two years ago when he prodded the worldwide leader in sports to commemorate its 30th year with 30 independently produced documentaries.
“I was watching an old HBO Sports documentary and got mad that HBO had this monopoly,” said Simmons, the blogger-turned-ESPN.com
columnist who is an executive producer for the “30 for 30” project. “I
thought, we’re a sports network and they’re not, but it’s always, oh, they have a new documentary.” Click www.nytimes.com for the whole story.
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