May 10, 2013
The New Stephen Curry: How the Warriors’ Super-Shooter Has Transformed His Game in the Playoffs
When the Warriors lost David Lee to what the team assumed was a season-ending injury in the team’s first playoff game, I was skeptical that Golden State would be able to reconstruct its offense on the fly against an opponent devoting nearly 100 percent of its scouting resources to the Warriors. It wasn’t that Lee […]
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The Jalen Rose Report With David Jacoby (Plus Video!)
Jalen Rose breaks down all the conference semifinals series and recalls an altercation he had with a fan during his playing days. Listen to the full podcast here and check out the video below.
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10 Minutes With Joel Peralta
Joel Peralta is a real-life Eddie Harris. The 37-year-old Dominican might have more pitching tricks than anyone this side of the Major League character, most of them legal, one of them illegal. Peralta didn’t make his minor league debut until he was 24. He appeared in 300 minor league games over the next decade, spending […]
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About Last Night: Cy Young Showdown
In case you were busy finally piecing together why the Buffalo Bills’ mascot is a Buffalo, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday: In a battle of reigning Cy Young winners, David Price’s Rays upended R.A. Dickey’s Blue Jays, 5-4, in 10 innings. The Blue Jays, preseason favorites in the hypercompetitive AL East, now […]
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Golf’s Most Powerful: May Edition!
The Players Championship starts today, which means it’s time to unveil the Sport of Golf Power Rankings, a new feature for The Triangle. If you’re new to the game, the Players Championship is often called “the fifth major,” and tends to draw one of the strongest fields of the year. The island green on no. […]
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We Went There: (Playoff) Hockey Nights in Canada
Playoff time in Toronto and Ottawa used to mean the Battle of Ontario. That was the creative nickname slapped onto the rivalry between the two teams who faced each other four years out of five from 2000 to 2004. Fans of either team don’t need to be reminded how that went: The Leafs won all […]
Read moreThis Band Marijuana Deathsquads Played Music to a Montage of Dunks
On a bad night, Marijuana Deathsquads is a band full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. This is the risk of music that relies heavily not on rote performance but on a kind of high-wire act of endlessly unfolding possibilities driven by a couple of things, including faith, instinct, adrenaline, and Ryan Olson, who for […]
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Internet Unearths Late-’80s Footage of Martin and Charlie Sheen Beating Michael Jordan in Basketball, Again Justifies Its Existence
The Internet is beautiful, in the sense that certain fads, memes, and obscure pieces of media have multiple life cycles, with each rise to relevancy enjoyed by new generations of online sleuths. Rarely are things that have been dug up true Internet “firsts.” I had to remind myself of that today, as a clip made […]
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Roster Doctor: The Matchup Game
Coming into this season, Scott Feldman owned a career 4.81 ERA. It wasn’t all bad, of course. You could blame some of those runs allowed on the harsh pitching environment at Arlington in which he toiled for eight years. There were flashes of strong results, such as the 2009 season that yielded a 17-8 record […]
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Big Questions for a Day Off: Can the Knicks and Thunder Overcome Their Offensive Struggles?
The first round started as a boring chalk-fest, with six of eight series going to 2-0, and only Nuggets-Warriors promising to double as both competitive and aesthetically pleasing. It transformed into madness, of course, with four Game 6s on a single delightful Friday night. The conference semifinals have skipped right to the promising stage, with […]
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Men in Blazers: Special Alex Ferguson Retirement Edition
In light of Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement, Michael Davies and Roger Bennett gather to review the repercussions for Man United, Everton, and beyond. Listen to this podcast here. Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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Derek Jeter’s Diary: Ducks Have No Place in Baseball
The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain’s private journal. Wednesday, May 1: vs. Houston Astros When you take two of three from Houston, it’s hard not say “We should’ve taken three of three from Houston” because […]
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NBA Playoffs Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Klay Day
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. Klay Thompson Danny Chau: This is a shot chart of Klay Thompson’s many 3-pointers from Game 2, overlaid on his 3-point attempts during the regular season. It’s wild. As you can see, a majority of his shots traced the beginning arc […]
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You Are Here: Memory, Manchester, and Alex Ferguson
I left Manchester 10 years ago, after 14 years of living in the city. Through that entire time, Sir Alex Ferguson has been the manager of Manchester United. And in a few weeks’ time, he won’t be. Perhaps it’s that final symbolic severing of a particular connection to a city I didn’t stick with that’s […]
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About Last Night: Heat Get Back to Business
In case you were busy watching The Great Gatsby in 3-D as an ill-advised cram session for your 11th-grade English final, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday: The Miami Heat rebounded from a disappointing Game 1 defeat by pasting the Chicago Bulls, 115-78, to even up their second-round series. After a pair of […]
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