Posts by Shane Ryan
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How to Restore the Legend of Opening Day
At long last, the daytime, American, non-Miami version of Opening Day is here. For some teams. If you’re keeping track at home, here’s how the gradual unveiling of the 2012 season has gone: Phase 1 — Last Wednesday and Thursday, Seattle and Oakland split a pair of games at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. Apparently […]
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About Last Night: Bienvenido A Miami!
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday. In the first major league baseball game of the regular season on American soil, Kyle Lohse pitched six no-hit innings and lasted into the eighth as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Miami Marlins 4-1. It was […]
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About Last Night: Da Bears Stay Perfect
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday. The Baylor Bears became the first college basketball team to ever compile a 40-0 record and win the national championship. Brittney Griner’s 26 points and 13 boards helped her team to an 80-61 victory over Stanford Notre […]
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The Kentucky Title: A Five-Act Play
Act 1: Pregame Kentucky locker room — Senior Darius Miller is giving his team a pep talk Miller: Guys, a lot of you will go on to great professional careers, but believe me when I tell you that you’ll never have another oppor — [John Calipari turns to the side wall and makes a loud […]
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About Last Night: Cats Are Bracket Conquerors
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday. The Kentucky Wildcats are national champions. Doron Lamb scored 22 points, including crucial back-to-back threes late in the game, as Kentucky held off Kansas for a 67-59 win. This is John Calipari’s first national title, and he […]
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Reader’s Revenge: Your Worst Rejection Stories
Monday means “Readers’ Revenge,” the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week’s topic was Your Worst Rejection. I got a lot of good e-mails about sports rejections and job rejections, but there were so many heartbreaking romantic ones that I decided to just roll with that theme. […]
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The Two Comebacks
I was feeling very relaxed on my friend’s couch, watching Kansas slowly chip away at Ohio State’s lead. His dog, with whom I share a complicated relationship, had slipped comfortably under my arm, and there was a serenity about the basketball playing out in front of me. Unlike the blunt trauma of Louisville-Kentucky, the grating […]
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About Last Weekend: Final Four Finale
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports over the weekend. The NCAA men’s basketball championship will be contested Monday between Kentucky and Kansas. The Wildcats defeated in-state rival Louisville 69-62 in the first game of Saturday’s Final Four, and the Jayhawks used a second half comeback […]
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Yankees E-mail Swap!
Science still hasn’t developed a way to stab someone over e-mail, so last Sunday, Bill Simmons did the next best thing: “I’d like to get the band back together,” he wrote, and I felt an immediate, sharp pain in my gut. “The band” was me and his friend JackO. We’re both Yankees fans, and Simmons […]
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About Last Night: The Parking Lot Confederacy
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday. Steve Nash said that he wouldn’t be coming back to the Suns next season if there wasn’t some improvement in the roster, and that he’d be willing to talk to the Miami Heat about a free agent […]