Posts by Grantland Staff
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NBA Playoffs Shootaround: Evan Is a Place on Earth
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. Hero of the Night: Evan Turner Doug Collins started Evan Turner at point guard against the depleted […]
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NBA Playoffs Shootaround: Whoa-Oh-Oh, I’m On Fire
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. ‘Break in Case of Emergency (But Not With Your Fist) (And Being Down 2-0 Is Not, Technically, […]
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NBA Playoffs Shootaround: Who Do We Blame for Derrick Rose?
So much amazing is happening here, 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. Who Do We Blame for Derrick Rose? Blame me for what happened to Derrick Rose. About […]
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Grantland’s NBA Playoffs Staff Predictions
Grantland is brimming with NBA playoff excitement. You may have already noticed. Since we couldn’t wait for the games to get going, we asked our staff to make three predictions — one realistic, one reach, one pipe dream. Chuck Klosterman Realistic: Whoever ends up playing Dallas (Ed. note: It’s Oklahoma City.) loses (or very nearly […]
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YouTube HOF: The Very Best of Fox
90210, “Be Be Be My Love” Bill Simmons: Lisanti asked me to pick the greatest moment in 90210 history, which, of course, would double as the greatest moment in Fox history since the original 90210 was the greatest television show of all time. With all due respect to moments like Ray pushing Donna down the […]
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B.S. Report: Michael Lombardi
NFL Network analyst Michael Lombardi joins Bill Simmons to discuss the upcoming 2012 NFL draft. Simmons and Lombardi talk about the Vikings’ pick, the Trent Richardson dilemma and whether Justin Blackmon is the poor man’s A.J. Green.
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YouTube HOF: A Nine-Pack of 2Pac, With Zero Hologram Videos!
“Changes” Jonathan Abrams: Halo-Pac is kind of eerie to me. I am someone who wanted to believe Tupac still lived for so long, record after record, until I finally gave up hope somewhere around 2001. Tupac Shakur is my John F. Kennedy assassination and moon landing. I hit adolescence and grew up in California. It […]
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Five Questions About the NHL Playoffs
We had some questions about the NHL playoffs, and because we only have like three friends who are actually watching every game of said playoffs (and they are probably pretty sick of our e-mails by now), we turned to Grantland’s resident hockey fan, Katie Baker. Please take it away, Katie: The Canucks and the Penguins […]
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YouTube HOF: Fun With Horror
Phantasm Alex Pappademas: You can screen all 88 minutes of Don Coscarelli’s 1978 barking-madsterpiece Phantasm on YouTube, and you should. From the budget-Kubrick white-marble mausoleum/hellmouth to the badass-1971-Plymouth-‘Cuda-vs.-driverless-hearse car chase to the killer dwarves (who scuttle around like Satanic Jawas, or Neil Young’s LED-eyed road crew from Rust Never Sleeps), it’s a triumph of runaway […]
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B.S. Report: Katie Baker, Greg Wyshynski, John Buccigross, and Joe House
Grantland’s Katie Baker joins Bill Simmons to discuss the NHL playoffs, which start Wednesday night. Buccigross discusses his favorites to win the Cup, and the bad blood between the Penguins and the Flyers. Then, Wyshynski recalls the hockey message board days of the Internet, talks about whether he’s sold on the Rangers, and mourns Patrick […]