Posts by Craig Gaines

  • MLB 21-Day Warning: The Agony of Dual Fandom

    What’s worse than rooting for a team that just missed the World Series? Rooting for TWO teams that just missed the World Series. Welcome to Grantland Copy Editor Craig Gaines’s nightmare.

  • When News and Sports Collide

    Thursday’s Supreme Court decision upholding most of President Barack Obama’s health care law coupled with the lead-up to the night’s NBA draft made for a wonderful day of social-media grazing. I spent the morning scrolling through tweets that expressed shock about the decision, batted around trade rumors, knocked news organizations for rushed and erroneous reports […]