Bill Simmons is Back

The massive sport and pop culture vacum resulting from the unexpected decision by ESPN to shutdown Grantland.com and fire the BS sports guy Bill Simmon finally looks like its being filled by the same man under a different name

Simmons recently launched his new website TheRinger.com. So far its just a newsletter and brilliant podcasts. The shows are the usual mix of celebrity interviews(Louis C.K,Keye and Peele) movie expert Micheal Rabaport and  insightful chats with his best friends Joe House and Cousin Sal

I think Bill simmons is one f the main reasons i started a sports blog and its great to have him back

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Podcast: Round 2 for Transatlantic/Division

Its the second round of the play offs so Jim Elliot and myself were back in studio to record the second episode of Ireland only NBA podcast hosted by Two Dublin based comedians

This time round we discussed the NBA players i would really really like to be friends with. how things have evened up in both the eastern and western conferences and how much injuries have impacted the chances of some of the teams remaining

There is also plenty of chat about the amazing Golden State Warriors, The iso-heavy Spurs  and the Tenacious Thunder

And of course Maurice and his horn are back

Hope you have as much fun listening as we did putting it together

My Basketball Podcast is Back!!

Its that time of the year again…basketball christmas.its the NBA playoffs!!!! .. we changed our brand last year and are now The Trans-Atlantic Division

Jim Elliot and myself  had great fun making the first one of the year on a sunny Rathmines afternoon surround by our wall of sound pillows which are really just pillows.The added production values you hear are a $4 dollar sound fx box. we may have hit the fart button one too many times but in between the uncontrollable digital flatulence we discussed Kobes retirement and his  ex girlfriends Moeshas dreadlocks and  the entire first round of match ups and how lopsided it all seems there was  a lot of love for Kevin Love and his performance against the Pistons

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