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.

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