T.J. Simers, the longtime LA Times sports columnist, has died at 73. T.J. Simers, the former Los Angeles Times sports columnist who later won a massive and highly publicized age discrimination suit against the paper, has died at age 73. “Just informed by my longtime @latimes Sports Editor Bill Dwyre that our legendary columnist T.J. Simers has just died,” Pugmire posted on X. RIP, T.J., thank you for all you did to lift me up and love and prayers to your beautiful family, my dear friend! The LA Times fired Simers in 2013, but he sued the newspaper for age discrimination and won a $7.1 million settlement.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 03, 2024 02:20 UTC