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  • Grantland Network Podcast: The Jalen Rose Show

    In Monday’s podcast, Jalen Rose and David Jacoby discuss Sunday’s Lakers-Celtics game, the play Kobe said he called for Andrew Bynum, and whether Jalen expects to see Pau Gasol in the purple and gold during the playoffs.

  • Thank You for Joining Us on the Internet!

    Sunday was the debut of @GrantlandLive, the new Twitter feed where you’ll find our live tweets for big games, important events, and … uh … other stuff, to be determined later. Thanks to those who followed Lakers-Celtics with us. We’re looking forward to the next one! At LAL-Celts and Rondo is wearing sunglasses in the […]

  • B.S. Report: Magic Johnson

    As part of a collaboration with ESPN Films, Bill Simmons sat down with Magic Johnson for a two-part podcast that aired as a special program after The Announcement, a documentary that chronicled Johnson’s life and career after the disclosure that he was HIV-positive. In Part 2 of the podcast, Johnson discusses the discovery and revelation […]

  • A Treasury of NBA Players With Joakim Noah’s Hair

    Today! On Grantland! Bill Simmons writes: Joakim Noah: The bad news: Making $60 million through 2016 &#133. and we have no idea if the Bulls can survive offensively playing Noah in crunch time in June. The good news: He’s played better after a botched attempt to sabotage his own trade value in the Dwight Howard […]

  • B.S. Report: Magic Johnson

    In advance of the debut of The Announcement, Bill Simmons and Magic Johnson sat down in the Grantland Studios to record a two-part podcast, which will air this weekend as a special program immediately after the ESPN Films documentary. (You can watch The Announcement at 9 p.m. ET Sunday on ESPN.) In Part 1 of […]

  • YouTube HOF: The Wire

    Opening Scene Robert Mays: I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this scene — it’s somewhere between five and 15. When it comes to my experiences with TV, the only feeling that approaches the first trip through The Wire is vicariously living through the first time of others. My college roommates love to give […]

  • Peyton Manning

    From the Grantland Archives: Bill Barnwell on Peyton Manning

    So I’ve been refreshing Rob Lowe’s Twitter feed nonstop for official confirmation on this, but I guess I’ll just have to go with what literally everyone else on the Internet says. It looks like the Indianapolis Colts and quarterback Peyton Manning are about to part ways. According to ESPN.com:

  • YouTube HOF: Special Spring Training ‘Baseball in Pop Culture’ Edition

    Field of Dreams – “Go the Distance” Bill Simmons: As I’ve written a million times, there are two kinds of people: people who love Field of Dreams, and people who don’t have a heart. When you love a movie, you learn to overlook a few technical glitches … you know, like the fact that it’s […]

  • B.S. Report Archives: Leap Year

    It’s February 29, everyone! Bonus holiday! Let’s all have a party or something. Here’s a clip of Joe House, Kevin Wildes and Bill Simmons discussing Leap Year in a half-baked ideas session.

  • Billy Crystal

    Grantland E-mails the Oscars

    We watched every (bone-chilling) minute so you didn’t have to.

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