Longtime NBA reporter Howard Beck joining The Ringer
Beck is a natural writer who churns out thoughtful feature stories about basketball.
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Bill Simmons addressed listener accusations that he cheats at Immaculate Grid and ‘Guess the Lines’
"All the greats, when they hit a certain point, people start wondering, 'is this real?'"
Kevin Clark leaves The Ringer to launch Omaha/ESPN YouTube show/podcast
"The people at Omaha are brilliant and I’m thrilled to be on ESPN’s platforms, it all just seems to be a perfect fit."
Cousin Sal Iacono will host NFL programming for The Ringer and FanDuel TV this fall
Cousin Sal finds a new home for his signature sports betting punditry.
The Dan Le Batard Show clashes with The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor over Damian Lillard trade talk
"Kevin O'Connor sent out literally the longest tweet in the history of the platform. He's the reason we ran into the rate limit problem."
Religion of Sports and The Ringer team up for G League doc on Prime Video
"It’s been incredible to watch the G League grow from an afterthought to a real talent source for the NBA."
Ranking next possible destinations for Mina Kimes
Dan Le Batard says ‘line starts behind us’ on Mina Kimes’ potential free agency
"Line starts behind us, big boy."
Mina Kimes’ ESPN contract is set to expire and Bill Simmons wants her at The Ringer
"She’s been my number one draft pick for a while."
After The Ringer’s Jonathan Tjarks passed away at 34 following battle with rare cancer, a GoFundMe page is helping his family
Tjarks had been battling a rare sarcoma since 2021, and had written about that for The Ringer.
FanDuel announces rebrand of TVG to FanDuel TV, launch of OTT service FanDuel+, new show with Kay Adams
"We intend for FanDuel TV to sit at the intersection of live sports and interactive content."
Brian Barrett leaves WEEI to launch a Boston sports podcast at Bill Simmons’ The Ringer
Ringer founder and CEO Bill Simmons said "Obviously this is an important podcast for me because it’s all my teams in the city I care about. I really wanted to find the right person."
Lindsay Jones, the PFWA president and a senior NFL writer for The Athletic, joins The Ringer as a senior NFL editor
"I will still very much be in the NFL media space, tweeting, podcasting, etc."
Bill Simmons looks back at his HBO show “Any Given Wednesday”: “Podcasts have replaced shows like that.”
"The 40 raw minutes were better than the 12 edited minutes. So stuff like that made me think, “What is the upside at this point of a TV interview show versus a podcast?"
Scott Van Pelt to reporters: ‘Do you even like sports’
"Do you even like sports?"
The Ringer and WWE are teaming up for a new audio network exclusive to Spotify
'The Masked Man Show' will be rebranded as 'The Ringer Wrestling Show.'
The Ringer Union ratifies collective bargaining agreement with Spotify
Recognized by management in 2019, the Ringer Union has ratified a CBA.
Twitter data shows how Thom Brennaman’s “There’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos” only really took off a month later
"The mid-apology play-by-play, ESPN’s Pablo Torre says, 'was like listening to the band play on as the Titanic was sinking. Except the band was also somehow the iceberg.'"
