Posts by Jay Caspian Kang
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Five Questions on American Idol: Are All Four Judges Getting Fired?
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. With a potential top-to-bottom shakeup on the horizon, are these the last days of Idol as we know it? One Who gave the best performance of […]
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Easy Money
Floyd Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero.
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Five Questions on American Idol: Is This the Worst Season Ever?
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. Only four contestants remain. (Again.) But the end is in sight. One It must be asked: Is this the worst season of American Idol ever? Kang: […]
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The Rise of A.I.
Allen Iverson and the Slam era.
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Five Questions on American Idol: The Fellowship Is Breaking
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. They don’t think they can make it, and with the judging panel in crisis, they may never have that recipe again. One Is there any way […]
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Four Questions About Canelo Alvarez vs. Austin Trout
On Saturday night, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez won a unanimous decision against Austin Trout. We asked four questions about the fight. Before the fight, many boxing pundits thought Canelo was all hype. Do you believe in Canelo now? Jay Kang: I believed in Canelo before Saturday night, albeit for a somewhat arbitrary reason. I attended Canelo’s […]
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5 Questions on American Idol: The First Ever All-Girl Top 5
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. The boys are all gone, dead. Long live the girls. One Is Janelle doomed tomorrow? Kang: At the start of the show, Janelle was my favorite […]
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The Injury and Facebook (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kobe Bryant)
Athletes are mostly boring. We wish this wasn’t true. After all, the athlete lives an exceptional life and it stands to reason that exceptional lives require exceptional people. This underlying assumption has launched a thousand profiles written by a countless number of writers, the vast majority of whom come away with notebooks filled with boilerplate […]
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So Is This What Zack Greinke Did to Make Carlos Quentin So Mad?
I’m calling the fight a draw. (h/t @atotalmonet)
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5 Questions on American Idol: Is Candice Glover the Greatest Idol of All Time?
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. This week: More positivity! And more Mariah! One Candice’s “Lovesong”: One of the greatest Idol performances of all time, or do people have short memories and […]
