Posts by Grantland Staff

  • 30 for 30 Shorts: ‘Ali: The Mission’

    Our latest film, narrated by Grammy Award-winning musician John Legend.

  • Gangster Squad

    The Dumpuary Movie Club: Gangster Squad

    With few exceptions, such as Friday’s wide 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 […]

  • Jodie Foster

    Golden Globes After-Party! Hollywood’s Drunkest Night With Jodie, Ben, and a Thousand Other Thirsty Stars

    On Jodie Foster’s Not-Quite-Coming-Out Party Cecil B. DeMille was an absurdly prolific showman-producer. He oversaw flamboyant biblical and pseudo-biblical pageants like The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah, and The Greatest Show on Earth. They were epics of delirium and decadence that lavished the upside of sin, then sent you home relieved that the sinner isn’t […]

  • Ray Lewis

    NFL Run and Shootaround: The Long Good-bye

    Ray Lewis Is Truly Awesome Ray Lewis has described many things as “awesome.” He dieted and exercised before this season and showed up to camp at his lightest weight in some 15 years: “It’s awesome,” he said, “I feel great.” Earlier this season he described Joe Flacco and the Ravens’ much-improved offense as “awesome.” Last […]

  • Chris Paul

    NBA Shootaround: Los Angeles Kings

    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. A Tale of Two Cities (GIFs by HeyBelinda) Earlier this week, one of our copy editors asked […]

  • The Adjustment Bureau

    YouTube HOF: Hats!

    Gangster Squad makes its long-delayed debut this week, and the Grantland staff couldn’t help but notice that, from the looks of the trailers, at least, this film seems to feature a noticeable excess of hats. This places it in an important, rarefied echelon of headgear-oriented motion pictures, which we will now salute in this explosive […]

  • Robert Griffin III

    NFL Run & Shootaround: Love Will Tear Us Apart

    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. Field of Dreams We are barely 12 hours from the end of the Washington Redskins’ season. At […]

  • Steph Curry

    NBA Shootaround: The Jackson Five

    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’ll remember forever. Fantasy Basketball How does one describe watching the Warriors shoot out the lights on the Clippers last night? […]

  • Eli Manning

    NFL Run & Shootaround: The End, Beautiful Friend

    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. Notes on the Horror of Rooting for Evil (a New York Giants Fan Tale) They’re always strange, […]

  • New Year's confetti

    On to the Next One

    Our staff’s fearless predictions for 2013.

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