Posts by Grantland Staff

February 4, 2013
Super Bowl XLVII Commercials Hall of Fame: The Good, the Bad, and the Psy Riding a Pistachio With Disturbing Human Legs

Recent reports estimate the cost of a 30-second Super Bowl commercial spot to be upwards of 4 million dollars, to be seen by some 114 million viewers. Here is how some of the world’s biggest companies chose to make the most of that investment.
February 4, 2013
NFL Run & Shootaround: All of the Lights

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. Everything, Everything I don’t know if something as unabashedly macro as the Super Bowl could ever be […]
January 31, 2013
NBA Shootaround: Brooklyn’s Finest

So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here to help you keep track of it all. You’ll find takes on moments you might’ve missed from the previous night, along with ones you will remember forever. Savvy The Heat rolled in Brooklyn last night, thanks mostly to a 36-14 third quarter and another […]
January 30, 2013
YouTube HOF: Super Bowl Halftime

In its 47 years, the Super Bowl halftime show has become something of a definitive stage for American entertainment; a pop-cultural barometer, albeit a wildly unreliable one. It has created larger-than-life onstage moments that have inspired millions and ruined careers and prompted legislation. This Sunday, Beyoncé will take the stage at the Superdome in a […]
January 28, 2013
The Dumpuary Movie Club: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

With few exceptions, such as the mid-January release of Best Picture nominee Zero Dark Thirty, the two-month period between the New Year and the Oscars is Hollywood’s wasteland, a long stretch of bad cinematic road where it casts out its unloved misfires, its low-achieving genre fare, and, occasionally, its hidden, wolf-punching gems. We call this […]
January 24, 2013
NBA Shootaround: I LIKE MY MEATBALLS SPICY

So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here to help you keep track of it all. You’ll find takes on moments you might’ve missed from the previous night, along with ones you will remember forever. Italian Ice There’s really no way around it anymore — Marco Belinelli has become the most clutch […]
January 23, 2013
YouTube HOF: Zero Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Much to our collective disappointment, it turns out that The Following isn’t very good. (Unless you’re into empty violence and fifth-grade-level Edgar Allen Poe references.) So in this week’s Hall of Fame, we decided to remember Kevin Bacon in happier times. We don’t know if you’ve heard, but he was in some things.
January 21, 2013
NFL Run & Shootaround: Brotherly Love

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. Anquan Boldin: Hall of Famer? Anquan Boldin has not made a Pro Bowl since leaving the Arizona […]
January 17, 2013
NBA Shootaround: Watch the Throne

So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here to help you keep track of it all. You’ll find takes on moments you might’ve missed from the previous night, along with ones you will remember forever. Milestones So, LeBron reached a milestone yesterday in amassing 20,000 points (along with tallying 5k assists) — […]
January 16, 2013
YouTube HOF: Best Acceptance Speeches

We’re now waist-deep in awards season, and the Grantland staff would like to take this opportunity to remind all the Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Collar nominees out there that should they have to step up to that podium and take that mic on national television, they owe it to themselves to study up beforehand and […]

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