Posts by Jay Caspian Kang

  • Boxing Round of the Year: John Molina vs. Mickey Bey

      Was it a lucky punch or the inevitable outcome of 28 minutes of pressure? With 1:22 left in the final round of a 10-round bout on Friday night, John Molina Jr. swung blindly with a left hook and caught Mickey Bey on the chin. Bey slumped over, his arms dangling at his sides, his […]

  • Pacific Rim

    What If the Jaegers in Pacific Rim Were Run by Professional Athletes?

    Welcome to the Grantlandiest Grantland piece ever, in which we examine the “intersection between sports and culture” in completely self-serious, stentorian ways. We will be scoring each “Grantlandiest Grantland piece ever” for Grantland moments as we go along. If you haven’t seen it already (and you should), Pacific Rim is a movie about giant robots […]

  • Victor Oladipo #4 of the Indiana Hoosiers celebratesl during the Big 10 game against the Minnesota Golden Gophers at Assembly Hall on January 12, 2013 in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) // Steven Adams #13 of the Pittsburgh Panthe

    The 2013 YouTube Draft

    Ranking Victor Oladipo, Steven Adams, and 10 other NBA prospects based on their Internet highlight reels.

  • Where Is Brooklyn?

    Adrien Broner, Paulie Malignaggi, and the move to bring boxing back to Brooklyn.

  • Yasiel Puig

    After Yasiel Puig

    A glorious phenomenon and the obnoxious ?small sample size? argument.

  • Mark McGwire

    In Honor of the Backs-Dodgers Brawl, Here Are the Odds on a Heroes of 1991 Baseball Battle Royale

    Last night’s brawl at Dodger Stadium featured Don Mattingly, Kirk Gibson, Alan Trammell, Turner Ward, Charles Nagy, Mark McGwire, and Matt Williams. Please read that list of names again and then go straight to the binder of baseball cards in your mother’s attic to reacquaint yourself with 1991. Because we here at Grantland like to […]

  • Yasiel Puig

    We Went There: Yasiel Puig Invades Los Angeles

    Three hours before his third game in the majors, Yasiel Puig, the 22-year-old Cuban defector whose feats of superhuman strength have made him the talk of baseball, stood at his locker and answered questions from a small group of reporters. A pretty, impeccably dressed woman stood by his side — the interpreter assigned by the […]

  • American Idol

    Five Questions on the American Idol Season Finale: Notes From a Synch-ing Ship

    Whatever doesn’t deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland’s Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken, to tackle another season of American Idol. Their journey is now at an end, a winner has been crowned, the confetti has fallen — but the biggest questions of all are still on […]

  • Matt Harvey

    Metropolitan Homesick Blues

    Matt Harvey, the Mets’ loss of identity, and life as the lone bright spot in gloomy Queens.

  • Korean Baseball

    THE GREATEST KOREAN BASEBALL VIDEO YOU WILL SEE ALL DAY

    Thanks to tipster @MyKBO, who sent us the following video from the Korea Baseball Organization. Click below to watch the video of Jeun Jun-woo of Lotte hitting what he thought was his second home run of the season. Before we begin, a quick question for the people back in the homeland. How do you decide […]

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