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Disclaimer:  This may seem hypocritical, given that this is
written on a site designed for sports blogging.  It's not. Aside
from Dane Cook, who is the least funny person in America, my
next least favorite "funny" celebrity is none other than's Bill
Simmons. Everyone knows him as "The Sports Guy," the mainstay
of's Page 2. Let's face it, Bill Simmons is a New England yahoo
at heart, so I would take the majority of his comments about
most everything with a grain of salt. Simmons demonstrates clear
and indisputable bias in almost everything he writes. Aside from
that, I cannot stand "The Sports Guy."  He has single-handedly
ruined sports journalism, attempting to turn it into a "blogging
contest" where you report less than 10 percent sports news and
facts, and then spend the bulk (greater than 90 percent) of your
time rambling about nonsensical lasagna related to your
"buddies" or "the sports