Did ESPN Muzzle the Sports Guy On Twitter?
I’m not sure you can call it a suspension from Twitter if the guy supposedly being suspended is, you know, still tweeting. But there are rumors that ESPN has ordered Sports Guy columnist Bill Simmons — currently on the road promoting his massive tome, The Book of Basketball — not to tweet for two weeks. It started with The Big Lead, an independent sports blog which wrote: Bill Simmons had a book signing in Beaverton, Oregon last night, and a reader who attended wrote in that he “overheard” ESPN’s Sports Guy telling a fan that he was “suspended from tweeting for two weeks” and that all he was allowed to tweet about was his book tour. We went to the usually-forthcoming Simmons this morning, and here was his response: “no commento.” From there it got picked up by NBCSports.com Out of Bounds blogger Rick Chandler, who seems to have found a smoking gun: [A]pparently it was this Twitter jab at WEEI, a sports radio station in Boston, that caused the little red revolving lights to start spin
