Posts by Michael Weinreb

  • The Quarterback Quandary

    His name was Dayle Tate, he was from Springfield, Va., and he looked like this: Tate This picture (photocopied from my decaying edition of the Penn State football media guide) was taken in 1979, which accounts for both the plaid sport coat and the Larry Wilcox coiffure. Heading into that season, Tate was the de […]

  • Kevin Wilson

    The Rise of Indiana Football

    Coach Wilson has arrived — will victories follow?

  • Davin Megget

    The Grantland Top Five

    1. The University of Maryland, College, Park, Md. OK, so I’m a stodgy white male who is fast approaching middle age, and I get that this college football uniform fetish is not geared toward uptight souls like me, and that it is fueled by apparel companies and the attention economy and all the highfalutin’ sociological […]

  • Kellen Moore

    Annoying Boise State

    They were waiting in line to buy train tickets, a cluster of genteel souls dressed in red, wrestling with the MARTA ticket machines in Buckhead as if performing some kind of advanced calculus. They wore halter tops and cocktail dresses and golf shirts and scarlet pants patterned with little English bulldogs, and they toted leaky […]

  • Charlie Weis

    Important College Football Questions … ANSWERED

    We thought it would be fun for Chuck Klosterman and Michael Weinreb to debate this year’s college football season, via e-mail. Turns out it was really only fun for us. Klosterman Good morning, Michael J. Weinreb. I was recently asked to have an e-mail conversation with you about college football, because — as we all […]

  • Foster

    The Grantland Top Five

    1. Arian Foster, running back, Houston Texans By all accounts, Arian Foster is something of a new-age goofball. His father actually named him after the Age of Aquarius, he majored in philosophy at Tennessee, he writes poetry, and he named his child Zeniah Egypt, in part because of his high regard for Discovery Channel programming. He is […]

  • Randy Shannon

    The Grantland Top Five

    1. University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. 2. Randy Shannon, former head coach, University of Miami The story that got me was the one about Nevin Shapiro attempting to throttle a school compliance director in the press box. I mean, we can theorize ourselves into knots at this point about the ramifications of Yahoo! Sports’ phenomenal […]

  • Ki Jana Carter

    The Grantland Top Five

    1. Ki-Jana Carter, running back In my mind, Ki-Jana Carter is not who you think he is. In my mind, Ki-Jana Carter is the man in this video, a sculpted 21-year-old who takes a handoff on a sunny day in Pasadena, Calif., stumbles forward, regains his balance, ricochets off a linebacker, changes direction and outruns […]

  • The Grantland Top Five

    1. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. 2. Brian Kelly, football coach, University of Notre Dame Let me just say this first: I’ve never had a particular affinity for Notre Dame. I believe gold is an overvalued metal and leprechauns are terrifying shoemakers. I believe Sam Gamgee was a subpar defensive end and Qadry […]

  • Stats Pro Baseball

    Statis Pro Baseball: An Instruction Manual

    The exhausting work of adolescent obsession.

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