February 16 - February 22, 2015
Grantland Q&A: Fallon Fox
The trailblazing MMA fighter talks about being a trans athlete, her battles with Joe Rogan, and whether the UFC will ever (finally) let her fight
The Resurrection of Kyle Wiltjer
Why the Gonzaga forward had to leave Kentucky to realize his All-American potential
New York’s Bard of Grime
A trip through the underbelly of the Big Apple with novelist Richard Price, its foremost chronicler of crime, cops, and clockers
February 9 - February 15, 2015
Frame Jobs
What we can learn about manipulating the strike zone from all-world receiver Brad Ausmus, an elite catching prospect, and Dennis Eckersley, the beneficiary of, ahem, a widened target
At the Algonquin Hotel: A Conversation With Wes Anderson
An exclusive excerpt from ‘The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel’
‘God, I Miss That Boy’
A Bay Area community mourns the tragic killing of high school basketball player Rodney Frazier Jr.
February 2 - February 8, 2015
The Third Revelation of Father John Misty
Josh Tillman has lived many lives. The singer-songwriter has been a defiant child of God, a broke dishwasher, a successful drummer, a Dionysian shaman, a failed poet, a drug-hoovering spiritualist, and a gleeful prankster. Now, he’s a man with one of the year’s best, most bracing albums. And all it took was the love of a good woman.
Baseball’s Worst Contracts
It’s time for our annual look at Major League Baseball’s heaviest financial anchors. Prepare yourselves, Rangers, Tigers, and Angels fans.
The Fatalist
Irina Pavlova — Russian émigré, Google alumna, world-class operator, and one of the highest-ranking women in professional sports — is the handmaiden of power for the Brooklyn Nets. But can she really effect change in one of the league’s most tumultuous (and expensive) franchises?
