Posts by Jay Caspian Kang

  • American Idol

    Five Questions on American Idol: Between a Rock Week and a Hard Place

    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 seven contestants remain. Things are getting real. One We’re down to the Top 7, and usually at this point there’s at least one or two […]

  • Don King

    The End and Don King

    The crumbling of an American icon.

  • Storage Wars

    The Storage Illuminati Continue to Attack Heroic Whistle-blower

    I’m a man of many silent protests. Currently, I’m silently protesting the neighbors who harass me about my terrible parking, the California tax board, the Apple Care program, American Idol, pants in general, and, of course, the producers of Storage Wars, who so unceremoniously dumped Dave Hester, my favorite “reality” TV show personality of all […]

  • Sandy Koufax

    Blue in Green

    Dodger Stadium, MLB money, and the endurance of beautiful relics.

  • Rios

    ‘We Are Warriors’: Rios–Alvarado II a Spectacle of Heart and Skill

    If boxing is sometimes stupid and always macho, there’s no better example of the magnetism of stupid macho than Brandon Rios. He is boxing’s early Ironclad, a slow-moving, indestructible and arguably ugly fighter who advances upon his opponents without a hint of subtlety or trickery. When he gets close, he blasts them to hell. This […]

  • Burnell Taylor, Devin Velez, and Lazaro Arbos

    Five Questions on American Idol: Picking Over the Burned-Out Husk of Detroit Week

    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. There are eight contestants and three recappers left. These numbers will change. One So, we didn’t get Motown Week this season. We got “Detroit Week.” Which […]

  • Harvard

    The Imaginary Biographies of the Harvard Band

    Meet the Harvard University Band (h/t to Deadspin/Emma Carmichael). ROW 1 Danny Margolis, drums: A sophomore political science and government major from Teaneck, New Jersey, Danny runs a campus neocon blog called Francis Fuk-ya-mama. Traffic is light, but the commenters are all intelligent, thoughtful people. He listens to Immortal Technique in the gym because it’s […]

  • Janelle Arthur on 'American Idol'

    Five Questions on American Idol: How About a Pleasant Night of Beatles Songs?

    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’re down to nine contestants, and will not rest until there’s just one remaining, because that’s how it works. One It was Beatles Night, because Paul […]

  • Must Watch: The Sexiest J.R. Smith Music Video on the Internet

    This, via a tip from David Parker. Are you in a private place? Is there a lotion supply nearby? Have you dimmed the lights? Good. Because you’re about to hear the sexiest song about J.R. Smith to ever grace the Internet.

  • Enlightened

    A Requiem for Enlightened

    A hard and fast truth, not only in television, but in American life: People just don’t like watching sad, aging, neurotic women. The past decade has brought us plenty of popular shows that feature women on the verge of some sort of nervous breakdown or another, but there seems to be a rule that female […]

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