Posts by Jay Caspian Kang

  • The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: Imagine All the People, Singing for Their TV Lives

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. They now realize the show is never going to end, and they’re slowly coming to terms with their hilarious fate. Tate Stevens Lisanti: Check it out, […]

  • Pacquaio/Marquez

    Pacquiao-Marquez IV: The Knockout

    Reflections on the fight from two writers who watched from ringside.

  • Diamond White on The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: America Takes the Contestants Hostage

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. It’s not an abusive relationship, it’s just a very complicated one. Last night, America’s third-favorite singing competition dragged itself to the Final Six. For the first […]

  • Emblem3 on The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: Britney Spears and Will.I.Am Show the Kids How It’s Done (Badly)

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. It’s their favorite singing competition show ever — don’t let the deadness in their eyes fool you. Carly Rose Sonenclar Kang: I can’t really figure out […]

  • Lakers

    Stuck Between Systems: The Ever-Changing Lakers Take On the Rockets

    How many adjustments does a team need to make before you just throw up your hands and call it broken? If you read any of the papers in Los Angeles or listen to any sports talk radio or scan through the dozens of purple-and-gold blogs, you’d believe there must be some master solution that will […]

  • The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: Tate Is King, Demi Is All Eyebrow, and CeCe Is Doomed

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. Come, stay a while. They aren’t going anywhere; there are still some off-key versions of Celine Dion songs they haven’t heard. It was “diva” week on […]

  • CeCe Frey, The X Factor

    Judging The X Factor: The Power-Mad Demi Lovato Must Be Stopped

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. Yes, they get paid for this, but someone also pays the people who scrape skull fragments from the walls at murder scenes.

  • Jason Brock

    Judging The X Factor: The Live Shows Begin With Terrible Bangs and Even Worse Song Choices

    For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second season of The X Factor. Take their hands as they escort you to a magical world of singing, dancing, and laughter, and then leave you to die there, just as they […]

  • Lakers

    We Went There: (Almost) Hitting the Panic Button with the Los Angeles Lakers

    An hour before the tip-off, Dwight Howard stood at the free-throw line and yoked up his burden. Three straight shots clanged off the back of the rim. Howard turned to the assistant coach who was standing beside him and raised his eyebrows. The coach raised his right arm and lightly touched his forehead with the […]

  • draft night

    Psychological Terror and Greivis Vasquez: You Should Be Playing Salary-Cap Fantasy Basketball

    My first Salary Cap Fantasy Basketball draft occurred entirely online between 16 people who didn’t really know one another, and lasted five and a half days. This sounds like hell because it is hell. For the better part of a week, I sat on my couch and memorized the salary of pretty much every player […]

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