Posts by Men in Blazers
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Grantland Network: Men in Blazers
The international break brought both headache and relief after the Mighty Von Trapps split a pair of World Cup qualifiers with menacing Jamaica. In this week’s pod, Michael and Roger (fresh off a trip to Columbus for the return leg) recap what went right and wrong for the United States. Luckily, there was much Cherun […]
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Grantland Network: Men in Blazers
Free at last, free at last, thanks to Tottenham, Clint Dempsey is free at last. The Texan’s brave football strike came to a glorious end last Friday after Fulham agreed to his liberation. But while Americans everywhere breathed a sigh of relief, the Deadline Day news was quickly subsumed by the continued disintegration of Liverpool. […]
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Grantland Network: Men in Blazers
With the conclusion of the second week of Premier League activity, it’s more apparent than ever that this current campaign will contain the same infinite outcomes as an M.C. Escher construction. Luckily, Michael Davies and Roger Bennett dutifully gather to make sense of this Season of Weird. In this week’s pod, the Blazered Men consider […]
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Grantland Network: Men in Blazers With Special Guest Megan Rapinoe
Football has returned, as if it ever really went away. In this week’s pod, Michael and Roger welcome the return of the English Premier League like an old friend. A friend that always makes you pay for drinks, sleeps with your wife, and reverses its Hummer over your dog. But still, somehow, the love endures. […]
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Grantland Network Podcast: Men in Blazers
The long podless summer of your discontent has officially come to an end. Yes, the Blazers are back — freshly cleaned and pressed just in time for the start of the 2012-13 English Premier League season. But where to begin in this introductory Men in Blazers podcast? There’s really no other choice than to quickly […]
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Grantland Network Podcast: Men in Blazers
It’s been an exhausting year of football, capped by Spain’s second consecutive Euro title Sunday. Michael Davies and Roger Bennett survived, barely, and reconvene on this week’s pod to discuss the Spanish Smurfs’ potent attack, heap praise on Italy’s footballing Fonz, Andrea Pirlo, and dole out grades to ESPN’s crack halftime squad. But the football […]
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Grantland Network Podcast: Men in Blazers
At long last, Rog gets out from in front of the television and emigrates to Donetsk (the Crappiest Part of Ukraine) to provide some on-the-ground insight of the wonder that is the Euro 2012. In this bi-continental podcast, the Men in Blazers cover all the peculiarities of Polkraine, including press conference posturing, obese Ukrainian television […]
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Grantland Network Podcast: Men in Blazers with Seth Meyers
Happy Euros one and all! In this week’s pod, the Men in Blazers gather to cover the conclusion of the tournament’s group stage before the quarterfinals get under way Thursday. And what a fabulous tournament it’s been. That is, of course, unless you happen to be SNL’s Seth Meyers and a supporter of the once-mighty […]
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Grantland Network Podcast: Men in Blazers
Euro fever is spreading. Now just under a week into Euro 2012, the Men in Blazers gather to gauge their affliction. For Michael, it’s an optimistic malady, with side effects that include an undying confidence in England’s chances at the tournament. But for ol’ Rog, it’s a disease that carries glass-half-empty pessimism to epic levels. […]
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Grantland Network Podcast: Men in Blazers
After a brief vacation, the Men in Blazers are back. In this week’s edition, Michael and Roger handicap all the drama soon to begin at the 2012 Euro Championship from Polkraine. For those uninitiated GFOPs, the tournament is like the World Cup, but without the United States squad and the Japanese national anthem. After channeling […]