March 21, 2013
Grantland Staff March Madness Brackets
Check out the NCAA tournament brackets from some of our staff. We are all psychics, by the way. Juliet Litman Sarah Larimer
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5 NCAA Tournament Predictions for the First Day of Action
The NCAA tournament is finally here! Who’s ready to lose money gambling, find out that the person in your office who knows the least about sports still knows more than you do, and complain that your school’s coach can’t “win the big one” after your team loses a heartbreaker? Well, ready or not, the most […]
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About Last Night: Now the Heat Are Just Screwing With Us
In case you were too busy lamenting the fate of your already busted NIT bracket, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday: LeBron James had a triple double as the Miami Heat extended their winning streak to 24 games, overcoming a 27-point deficit to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, 98-95. “We are legends,” James said […]
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Cousin Sal’s Tourney Prop Bets
Hello, degenerate gamblers. March Madness is upon us, so whataya say we get mad together? Props are plentiful in this year’s NCAA tournament. Some of these are harder to find than a clean Lindsay Lohan urine sample, but I promise if you go online and search hard enough you’ll hit pay dirt. There will be […]
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Solving the Real Problem With the NBA’s Tanking Epidemic
Amid the buzzer-beaters, heartbreak, and drama in the NCAA tournament, NBA teams are using college basketball’s biggest stage to fine-tune their evaluations of some of the league’s future stars. For someone like Ben McLemore of Kansas or Marcus Smart of Oklahoma State, a brilliant stretch in March will allow them to stake their claim as […]
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Picking the Perfect Bracket: South Region
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we’re going region by region, helping you pick your bracket all the way from the First Four to the Final Four. On Tuesday, we blazed through the West and Midwest Regions, earlier today we tackled the East, and now we’re finishing off with the South. The Land of the Troubled This […]
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Men in Blazers: Special Guest Herculez Gomez
The unpredictable predictably happened again over the weekend. Manchester United marched on ever closer to its 20th league title, Everton came back to life against Manchester City, and Liverpool’s momentum came to a grinding halt thanks to surprising Southampton. Welcome to the Premier League. In this week’s pod, Michael and Davies recap all the happenings, […]
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The SportVU Follow-up: Answering the Most Common Questions and More Ghost Raptors
I have a ton of cool information from the Raptors’ analytics program that didn’t fit in yesterday’s original big-picture piece, so I wanted to share at least some of it here. A roundup of leftover thoughts on analytics, the evolution of the NBA, and the Raptors: • The two most common responses I got from […]
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Q&A: Jason Giambi on Growing Up, the Best Ballpark Taunts, and His Vegas Lifestyle
The unthinkable has happened: Jason Giambi has become a grand old man of baseball. There was a time when Cleveland’s designated hitter seemed like he’d remain frozen in the early 2000s, the relic of a goofier, more exuberant time. Giambi was an OBP warrior (praised in Moneyball), a confessed steroids user (unmasked in Juiced), and […]
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Picking the Perfect Bracket: East Region
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we’re going region by region, helping you pick your bracket all the way from the First Four to the Final Four. Yesterday we blazed through the West and Midwest Regions, and today, we’re tackling the East. THE BRACKET OF OPPORTUNITY The immediate thing I notice about the East is that it […]
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: The Denver Dunkets
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. George Karl Chris Ryan: Last night’s Thunder-Nuggets clash wasn’t exactly the basketball game you meet in heaven that I had billed it as (to myself) (I may have sent you an e-mail about it), but it was pretty instructive. I […]
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Bill & Bird: Larry Bird on Fighting in the NBA and Why He Hates Bill Laimbeer
Larry Bird tells Bill Simmons that he thinks the NBA has taken the flagrant foul thing too far, reviews his career in on-court brawls, and explains why he thinks Bill Laimbeer was a dirty player. Watch the video after the jump.
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The Designated Player vs. MLS Rivalry Week
Never let it be said that the Designated Player backs down from a fight. Whether it’s demanding that The European cuts a few of the makeweights to bump my salary up to a living (large) wage, or calling out my rookie left back on Twitter (“@genericclogger22 My level = not you #achieve #1998UEFACupQF #respectlearnit #whentopmanfreePASSit”), […]
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About Last Night: The Dancing Has Begun
In case you were busy wondering what living Nicolas Cage’s life would feel like, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday: The NCAA tournament got under way in Dayton as North Carolina A&T edged Liberty, 73-72. The win was a clear victory for Revisionist Bracketologists, who are well aware of the infringements on liberty […]
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