Posts by Grantland Staff
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Video: Four Minutes of Big Papi Doing Awesome Things in the Postseason
There are a lot of good reasons to hate the Boston Red Sox, but I’m pretty sure David Ortiz is someone upon whom everyone can agree. Remember his speech after the Boston Marathon bombing this year? Characters like Big Papi are one of the reasons sports will always be the greatest.
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NFL Run & Shootaround: Rock and a Hard Place
On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes and generally regressing to the mean. Catch up on all the NFL action right here. Defining Dirty Robert Mays: Yesterday afternoon, there was a football play that I am guessing we’ll see […]
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YouTube Hall of Fame: Tom Hanks
Arguably America’s most beloved living movie star, Tom Hanks is back in theaters this weekend with the release of Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips, and we here at Grantland couldn’t help but dive into his decade-spanning filmography and relive some of the highlights. Chocolates, volleyballs, and giant keyboards abound in this week’s YouTube Hall of Fame.
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NFL Run & Shootaround: Football After Dark
On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes and generally regressing to the mean. Catch up on all the NFL action right here. Sunday Dead-of-Night Football Robert Mays: Of all the things to get used to about the West Coast, […]
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YouTube HOF: Space
Gravity arrives in theaters this weekend, and we here at Grantland are all hyped up on space, despite what appears to be director Alfonso Cuarón’s best efforts to make it look like a losing proposition. Here are our favorite moments from every corner of the Milky Way … and beyond.
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Breaking Bad Series Finale After-Party: Machine Guns, Badfinger, and Tidy Resolutions
The Machine Gun in the Trunk Mark Lisanti: On a series that often hinged on a former high school teacher’s ability to fabricate tiny crystal-bombs, convert an evil invalid’s wheelchair into a rolling IED soundtracked by a tinkling bell, and improvise evidence-eradicating magnet arrays strong enough to upend a U-Haul, we were never going to […]
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Premier League Pass & Move: We Don't Know What We Don't Know
A look at the weekend’s Premier League action. Brad Guzan: American Messi Ryan O’Hanlon: Brad Guzan has more assists than any American in the English Premier League. Brad Guzan has more assists than Gareth Bale. Brad Guzan is the American Messi. That Manchester City was undone this past weekend by a long punt from a […]
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NFL Run & Shootaround: Still the Same
On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes and generally regressing to the mean. Catch up on all the NFL action right here. It Was All Good Just a Week Ago Andrew Sharp: It feels like just yesterday that Chip […]
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Breaking Bad Precap for Episode 516: This Is the End. Prepare Yourself.
Walter White and the Flyswatter of Destiny Andy Greenwald: What do we want when a beloved television show ends? Closure? Hope? Surprise? Or one last twist of the knife? We’ve experienced all four over the course of this past decade of exceptional television. (And that’s without counting TV’s most common exit strategy: not having an […]
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YouTube HOF: Our Favorite Breaking Bad Episodes
We have only a few days left during which Breaking Bad is still a show that is currently on television, so the Grantland staff has convened to give it one last HOF kiss on the cheek before sending it out to its dusty, bloody end. This time we’re highlighting our favorite episodes of the series, […]
