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The Ringer: Bill Simmons

How I Built This with Guy Raz

CHAPTER

The Internet and Sports Writing

I think the big watershed moment for me was the Red Sox traded for Pedro Martinez. I had my column up 18 hours before the Boston Globe column that that advantage is just too substantial. The most important thing that happened with the internet and sports writing was when Peter Gaiman's got hired by ESPN. And once that happened, that was the Neil Armstrong moment for sports writing.

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