Posts by Grantland Staff
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The Summer Songs Canon: A Modern Songbook of Perennial Hot-Weather Favorites
Exceptional Christmas songs have the benefit of getting canonized so we revisit them every year. Why can’t we do the same thing for summer songs?
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Triangle All-Stars: Bo, Jack, and the College Football Kings of Our Hearts
The 2014 college football season is finally here! Are you excited? We’re excited! At long last, it’s time to usher in the new campaign the best way we know how: by presenting our 2014 College Football Triangle All-Stars. Trigger warning for USC fans: Prepare for a lot of Myles Jack.
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Lightning Round: Tony Soprano Is Not Dead
Do you like mystery and ambiguity? Have you achieved some level of acceptance and moved on with your life since the famously open-ended 2007 finale of ‘The Sopranos,’ arguably our greatest modern television show? Well, TOO BAD!
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College Football Shootaround: 2014 Predictions We’re Bound to Regret
Grantland’s college football enthusiasts offer their predictions for the 2014 playoff participants, national champion, and Heisman winner, and share their outlandish predictions. We’re all prepared to look very dumb in a few months; are you prepared to join us?
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The Emmys After-Party: Vapes, ’Staches, and a ‘Breaking Bad’ Love Fest
Assessing the damage, the morning after TV’s biggest night.
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Are You Sure You Don’t Like DeMarcus Cousins?
Think very long and hard about this. Because I think the above video, via the NBA’s Instagram, might change your mind.
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Lightning Round: ‘The Leftovers’ Has Been Picked Up for a Second Season. Are You In or Out?
HBO finally (finally) picked up a seven-episode second season of The Leftovers. It’s now aired seven episodes of the first, so this is a relatively late-coming vote of confidence. We asked the Grantland staff: Are you in or out on the show? Are you sticking with it? Does knowing there will be an entire new season of gloomy mysteries make you more inclined to watch or to catch up? Lightning round, go:
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30 for 30 Shorts: ‘Kid Danny’
Our latest film, from documentarian Andrew Cohn, tells the story of how an adult-driven hoax changed Little League World Series star Danny Almonte’s life forever.
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Grantland Recommends: ‘Going Deep With David Rees,’ ‘The Silkworm,’ True Crime, and More
Our staff share the shows, books, and other entertainment they’re loving this month.
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The ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ Premiere After-Party: Psychotic Threats, Drunken Betrayals, and Sensitive Raccoons
On Monday night, after months of breathless Chris Harrison pimpage promising the kind of drunken antics and ocean-based hook-ups we’d come to expect from one of his late-summer dating programs, the venerable ‘Bachelor Pad’ franchise was transplanted to Tulum, Mexico, and reborn as ‘Bachelor in Paradise.’ Here are our staff reactions to its debut. Raccoons figure prominently. Disney, man.
