Posts by Grantland Staff
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YouTube HOF: Musical Interludes
Editor’s note: The a cappella drama (which is totally nothing like Glee, you guys) Pitch Perfect opens this weekend, and some of you may be surprised to learn that at least half of the Grantland staff has Friday, September 28, circled with red hearts and emblazoned with the words “GET PITCH SLAPPED” in their day […]
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The Best B.S.: Jimmy Kimmel Loans Adam Carolla His Son’s Car
Jimmy Kimmel explains to Bill Simmons that even with 15 or 20 classic cars in his garage, Adam Carolla asked to borrow Jimmy’s son’s Mini Cooper because his Aston Martin was drawing too much attention.
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The Best B.S.: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wilt Chamberlain, and Andre the Giant Have Dinner
Here’s Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tale of an evening out with Wilt Chamberlain and Andre the Giant in 1983 and what happened to him when he paid the bill against Andre’s wishes. (Hint: It’s a bad idea to do pretty much anything against Andre the Giant’s wishes.) Check back tomorrow for the premiere of the first 30 […]
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Emmys After-Party: Kevin Costner Sneers at Your Little TV Award, Don Draper vs. Sergeant Brody, the Incredible Mani-Cam, and More
The Wolf and the Bear: When Movie Stars Crash the Emmys One of the terrible things about the Golden Age of Television that is either upon us or just winding down, or maybe just gearing up, is the culture of nice that pervades. Everyone loves everyone and we’re all doing great work and hahaha TV […]
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NFL Run & Shootaround: Stop Dragging My Heart Around
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. The Consequences of Free Football Within a span of eight minutes, three games — Dolphins-Jets, Titans-Lions, and […]
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Story Time With Jalen Rose: The Vince Carter Body Slam
Jalen Rose tells the tale of the evening when some light ribbing in the Toronto Raptors locker room escalated into much more between superstar Vince Carter and head coach Sam Mitchell.
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Songs of the Week: Titus Andronicus Go Full Shakespeare, One Direction Take a Dip
Titus Andronicus, “In a Big City” Sean Fennessey: By the standards of 2010’s The Monitor, the breakthrough album from New Jersey’s gallant punks Titus Andronicus, “In a Big City” is a modest yelp. Which is to say, it’s not seven minutes long and it’s not a parable about how the Civil War is like beating […]
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YouTube Hall of Fame: Trouble With the Clint
Our friend Clint Eastwood has recently suffered a bit of a blow to his image, after his recent, high-profile chamber drama opposite a piece of furniture was a critical failure. This comes at a bad time, as Mr. Eastwood’s new potentially Oscar-baiting film Trouble With the Curve (his first non-self-directed role since 1993’s In the […]
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Jalen Rose on Kobe Bryant and Karma
Jalen reveals the one unbreakable rule in basketball, what he did to Kobe, and how it came back to bite him in the ass.
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NFL Run & Shootaround: Secrets and Lies
You Know Nothing of Our Work About seven days ago, right around when Baltimore finished cleaning up the Bengals, it seemed like we knew a few things after Week 1. The Ravens were good — maybe very good. The Patriots were the Patriots, but with the type of defense they hadn’t fielded in almost a […]
