welcome bill simmons and jalen rose!those who don't know. bill used to be a writer here on the show. now you have your own media empire. >> before you were famous. >> jimmy: not really. but i knew you before you were famous. now you guys have become -- not just, i don't know if you know this, jalen. bill talks about you all the time. i think bill is in love with you. >> this is my good friend. modern day, nick nolte and eddie murphy. >> jimmy: i wonder if you realize how much bill loves you. i wonder if that feeling is mutual. >> that feeling is mutual. this gentleman has done a lot for me. we have become good friends. we give people what they want. where is jacoby. >> after your star ascended past me, i had to make due. >> jimmy: i think you paired up well. you guys have chemistry. how did you become a duo in the first place. >> i started stalking this gentleman, actually. i'm serious. he started grantland.com, a fan of his work. wanted to do a pod cast on grantland. went to a post espy's party. made sure i watched him.

grantland's editor in chief bill simmons says that's a false conclusion.immons is up front about the failures that occurred in the editing process. here's a letter he wrote to readers on monday. "we have made one massive mistake. i have thought about it for nearly three solid days and i've run out of ways to kick myself about it. how did it never occur to any of us? how? how could we have all blown it? that mistake was someone familiar with the transgender community should have read caleb's football draft. this never occurred to us. nobody ever brought it up." simmons also declined to be here today. the controversy had many of us in the newsroom this week asking what ethical questions can those of us in the media take away, if any? here with me now to discuss in no, tiq milan, a senior media strategist of national news at glaad, and in chicago espn.com writer and editor christina kahrl. welcome to you both. >> thank you. thank you, brian. >> christina, you wrote an essay for grantland about what went wrong in this case. tell me what you think the difficult

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. >>> in our media fail, bill simmons, editor and chooe of grantland has made a world class apology for a grave error. his profiler was trying to profile a golf putter and details of her background weren't adding up. dr. v was a member of the transgender community, which hadn't been public and before the story was published, she committed suicide. simmons says, to my infinite regr regret, we never asked anyone knowledgeable enough to help us either improve the piece or realize that we shouldn't run it. that's our mistake. i want to apologize. i failed. that's true and simmons didn't duck the responsibility. after the break, richard sherman fined by the nfl for talking trash as his team heads to the super bowl. that has unleashed some nasty online racism. our digital download is up next. test don't wait for presidents' day to save on a new mattress. sleep train's presidents' day sale is on now. save up to $500 on beautyrest and posturepedic. get a sealy queen set for just $399. even get 3 years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. plus, free delivery, set-up, and removal of your old

>>> in our media fail, bill simmons,ed coe >> and we have gotten a world-class apology for profile ingut a member of the transgender community. she was widely denounced. we never asked anyone knowledgeable enough about the issues to help us improve the piece or to realize we should not run it and that is our mistake and my mistake because it is my site. i apologize. i failed. that is true. and simmons did not duck the respon break, richard sherman fined by the nfl for talking trash as the team heads to the super bowl and that has received some nasty trash talk. time now for our digidoad.e setv >>> the seattle seahawks just won a trip to the super bowl in a play by richard sherman who was trash talking with the 49ers. >> when the fox reporter talked to sherman on the side lines he was still hot. >> i'm the best in the game. that is the result you get. don't you of talk about me. >> who was talking about you? >> don't you open your mouth about the best. >> sherman's rant triggered an explosion on twitter and other social media sites where in people call him the "n" worth and blitzed the

tomorrow night, tim robbins will be here, from espn, bill simmons, and jalen rose, and music, and willher cross and legendary newsman ron burgundy on the show! i swear this thing was great in rehearsal. see if i can get it going now? again it's not going. am i doing something wrong? let me get the other one. what a terrible commercial for this product. it must be me, right? i mean -- should i shake it? will that help? i mean it worked backstage. son of a gun. i blame you for this too, guillermo. all right. well, i guess -- oh, look a guy from the back. oh, yeah, because he didn't have it turned on. that helps. all right. whoa. whoa. i lost it. i'll get it. i'll get. i work alone. right there. it shuts itself off. >> jimmy: all right. >> here you go. here you go. >> jimmy: all right. thanks so much. here we go. all right. there we are. look at that. and then -- when it will stay with you. sorry. >> jimmy: our first guest is an oscar, emmy and golden globe- nominated actor and producer who diggled his way into our hearts. you can see him now leading a group of navy seals through the moun

. >>> in our media fail, bill simmons, editor and chooe of grantland has made a world class apology forrave error. his profiler was trying to profile a golf putter and details of her background weren't adding up. dr. v was a member of the transgender community, which hadn't been public and before the story was published, she committed suicide. simmons says, to my infinite regr regret, we never asked anyone knowledgeable enough to help us either improve the piece or realize that we shouldn't run it. that's our mistake. i want to apologize. i failed. that's true and simmons didn't duck the responsibility. after the break, richard sherman fined by the nfl for talking trash as his team heads to the super bowl. that has unleashed some nasty online racism. our digital download is up next. hey kevin...still eating chalk for heartburn? yeah... try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. enjoy the relief! 100% greek. 100% m... so mmm, you might not believe i

. >> jimmy: my friend bill simmons would like to see you switch to number 13 so you can be pg-13.at's not bad. >> jimmy: is that a consideration? >> that's not bad. that's got a ring to it. pg-13. >> jimmy: why not try it out? does anybody wear number 13 on your team? >> no. no one. >> jimmy: it's perfect, then. >> it is. >> jimmy: do you have to go through some sort of process to change the number? >> yeah. and i think i've got to send out like, you know, a bunch of sorry letters to everyone that just purchased the 24 jersey. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, right. >> that'll be tough. >> jimmy: all right. well, you'll write a few letters and everything will be set. well, congratulations on -- you're having such a great season. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: your team is doing so well. the pacers play the portland trail blazers on friday, february 7th. 7:00 the big game on espn. thank you for being here. pg-13, paul george. we'll be right back with airborne toxic event. [ cheers and applause ] >> announcer: the "jimmy kimmel live" concert series is brought to you by

bill: richard simmons was not paid, by the way.'s point, is this going to get you to sign up. >> it might get somebody my age to sign up. but the problem is not people my age. but someone mary katharine's age. as i remember people in the 80s when the people who are at risk of not signing up weren't even born. it underscores the problems with obamacare. i wish the president would have talked about fixing obamacare. i think that's right, reasonable and responsible. bill: m.k., you didn't get that the other night, did you? >> that would have been cool for them to say we messed this up. i think he would have been applaud for that. but that's not what we got. as this goes forward we'll have more advertising budgets blowing through the roof and not signing up a lot of people. bill: back to california. we like richard but we are not quite sure this is going to do the trick. do you know how much money they spent between 2012 and 2013 and marketing? $72.4 million going to p.r. when i have to spend that kind of money, what does it say about

simmons cinnamon from the us fed on emergency management agency what people talk about how the private sector help. after hiking seventy one eighty year ago we partnered with google uncle bill came and to bulldoze mapping. and we all have a nice sounds and see the lexus and wear with legos persistence. many dissidents expressed the view was on private sector involvement in reconstruction. i lean on me is missing. my mom and i was invited to a private citizen indeed after many many fronts. organizers of the card can say this gathering is a major stepping stone for the well it could be better prepared with disasters and a national committee be so working together to prepare for the unexpected yet to find stable. she raced to the five communities. when disaster strikes. it's going to come up in hq well coated. i know him. the promenade chinese human rights activists has gone on trial in beijing for his role in anti corruption protests shoes geelong is charged with gathering crowds to disrupt order. shooting is the founder of the new citizens movement which started last year. it encourages people to get involved in politics. many people in the movement had been detained for tak

bill active users are fraudulent accounts. >>> missing man back with his family after photo of him on the streets of the nation capitol made thecture shows 20-year-old nicholas simmonsp warm in downtown washington. it was a heart breaking shot. associated press photographer snapped the picture to illustrate this unusually cold weather. after the picture was published it was brought to the tension of simmons parents who had reported their son missing on new year's day. simmons father and older brother picked him up at the hospital and drove him home to upstate new york. >>> americans living longer than ever in the life expectancy is increasing every year. federal health officials today said that americans born in 2009 can expect to live 78 and a half years. that's an increase from just a year earlier when life expectancy at birth was 78.1 years. an since the latest statistics were collected life expectancy has increased even more. center for disease control research project says this you can thank better treatment of cardio vascular disease for our longer lives and yet life expectancy in the united states is still lower than many developed countries around the world