Posts by Jay Caspian Kang

  • Rasheed Wallace

    Person of Interest: Rasheed Wallace

    What, you didn’t know?

  • Monta Ellis

    Person of Interest: Monta Ellis

    The case for a Monta revival in Milwaukee.

  • What the $$%@ Did the Warriors Just Do?

    I went over a lot of this in Wednesday’s column about Monta Ellis, but Thursday’s trade-after-the-trade sent me even further into a tizzy. So here’s a breakdown of the last 48 hours for the Warriors, may Mitch Richmond have mercy on their soul.

  • Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: American Idol Edition

    In today’s special all-American Idol edition of the Hollywood Prospectus podcast, Grantland experts Jay Caspian Kang and Mark Lisanti discuss Jermaine Jones’s abrupt on-air dismissal from the competition, how old it makes them feel that Shannon Magrane was born the same year No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” was released, and attempt to project Hollie Cavanagh’s eventual […]

  • American Idol

    A Brief Conversation About the American Idol Top 13 Results

    Grantland Idol experts Mark Lisanti and Jay Caspian Kang promised — well, maybe they just hoped a crazy, misguided hope &#8212 that they’d leave the results show alone. But here they are, with opinions. You can’t ask a dove not to fly, a salmon not to swim upstream, a depressed armadillo resigned to its fate […]

  • Jessica Sanchez

    Five Questions on American Idol: Top 13 Perform Whitney and Stevie

    All season, Grantland Idol experts Jay Caspian Kang and Mark Lisanti will answer five very important questions after each performance episode. They can hardly believe the show’s been on for seven straight months, 10 hours per week; it’s really flown by. One OK, we’re finally at the Main Event. Thirteen left. Who was amazing? Lisanti: […]

  • The Top 13

    Handicapping American Idol’s Top 13

    Before the Final 13 perform tonight, we wanted to handicap each contestant’s odds to win and compare it to Vegas’s predictions. No need to wait any further, let’s just get right into it. [Ed. note: All wagering analysis is for entertainment purposes only. If you actually put money on this, you have a serious problem. […]

  • Man must have a code.

    Smacketology: Day 2 – On Mouzone, Mofos, and Matchups

    Before we review yesterday’s voting results, I’d like to say a few words about Brother Mouzone. Due to widespread bureaucratic failure and alleged ballot stuffing, Brother Mouzone snuck into Smacketology as an 8-seed. I’d like to say before God and David Simon that the seedings found in Smacketology do not reflect the views of the […]

  • Rasheed Wallace

    Person of Interest: Rasheed Wallace

    What, you didn’t know?

  • Shannon Magrane

    Five Questions on American Idol: Yes, It’s Ladies’ Night, But Is the Feeling Right?

    All season, Grantland Idol experts Mark Lisanti and Jay Caspian Kang will answer five very important questions after each performance episode. Whatever long-term damage they suffer during their journey, please remember: They did this to themselves. One OK, we’ve been talking about this for the past two months and it’s finally time to come up […]

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