September 16, 2013
B.S. Report: Cousin Sal
Bill and Cousin Sal recap the huge weekend in sports and pop culture and guess the NFL Week 3 lines. Listen to the podcast here. Subscribe to the B.S. Report on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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Where Does Jim Furyk's 59 Rank?
Fifty-nine! On Friday, Jim Furyk became the sixth golfer in the history of the PGA Tour to join the 59 Club by shooting a 12-under 59 at Conway Farms. In the vacuum of golf scoring, where the only opponent is par and raw totals aren’t adjusted in any way, it’s a round that joins those […]
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Premier League Pass & Move: Take the Mesut Ozil Challenge
A review of the weekend’s Premier League action. Ball Don’t Lie Chris Ryan: If I were playing with Mesut Ozil, I’d be worried. The new Arsenal midfielder, who joined the Gunners from Real Madrid for a club-record £44 million transfer fee, made his debut on Saturday against Sunderland, despite being a little under the weather. […]
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NFL Run & Shootaround: Boom's Day
On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes and generally regressing to the mean. Catch up on all the NFL action right here. Reign Men Robert Mays: Typically when I watch football, I try to watch the line. That isn’t […]
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We Went There: Jaguars-Raiders … Are You Into Punting?
I had an assignment Sunday afternoon: Go to the Coliseum in Oakland and watch three hours of the absolute worst product the NFL has to offer. It was Jacksonville at Oakland. The team whose over-under Vegas set at 5 wins against the team whose over-under was set at 5.5. The guy starting instead of Blaine […]
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College Football, Week 3: We Had Comedy, We Had Mystery
Week 3 was weird wire to wire, but not without warning. There was spectacle in College Station. There was fantasy in Tempe. The signs were there: Kicking off play with a Thursday-night contest in reliable bat country like Lubbock is just asking for it. Of course the highlight of TCU–Texas Tech was Tech’s mascot scampering […]
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Money's Inferno: Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez
Las Vegas, one of our many deflating cities, managed to puff itself up for the Canelo Alvarez vs. Floyd Mayweather bout. The sights usually associated with fight week stayed more or less within expectations — the heads of retired professional athletes bobbing high above the scrum of drunk people streaming through the lobby of the […]
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About Last Weekend: Seattle's Best
In case you were busy reinventing the kneel-down, much to your own detriment, here’s what you missed in sports last weekend: In a battle of the league’s best defenses, the Seattle Seahawks leveraged a record-setting home-field advantage to pull away from the San Francisco 49ers and stake an early-season claim as NFC West favorites with […]
Read moreSeptember 14, 2013
Best of Grantland Sports Podcast: Niners, Jalen, Sam Fuld, and Shawne Merriman
This week’s Best of Grantland Sports podcast features the return of the Jalen Rose Report, The NFL Podcast previewing the 49ers-Seahawks game, Men in Blazers discussing the big win for Men’s US Soccer, Jonah Keri talking to Rays outfielder Sam Fuld, and an interview with former linebacker Shawne Merriman. Listen to this podcast here. Subscribe […]
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