September 10, 2012
We Went There: Hoosier Gym Bonus Clip
During his visit to Hoosier Gym, Bill Simmons had some pointed criticisms of fictional Coach Dale.
Read moreUmpire Jerry Meals Answers James Lipton’s 10 Questions
If you were zoned out in a football stupor this past weekend, you missed Jerry Meals unleashing one of the worst calls of the MLB season. On Saturday, the Yankees trailed the Orioles 5-4 in the top of the ninth at Camden Yards, and it was a big, big game. The AL East race had […]
Read moreB.S. Report: Mike Lombardi and Joe House
Bill Simmons breaks down Week 1 with the NFL Network’s Mike Lombardi, and then celebrates RG3’s big game with D.C. native Joe House. You can listen to this podcast on iTunes or the ESPN.com PodCenter.
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NFL Run & Shootaround: Robert Griffin, the First
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. RG3 and Newton’s Law In a lot of ways, the Cam Newton–Robert Griffin comparison makes sense. Each […]
Read moreGrantland Network Podcast: Dan Le Batard With Stan and Jeff Van Gundy
Dan Le Batard (@LeBatardShow) of the Miami Herald and Jon Sciambi (@BoogSciambi) of ESPN talk with Stan and Jeff Van Gundy about the sports media, coaches lying, and Stan’s handling of the Dwight Howard mess. Listen to this podcast here. Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
Read moreA Bad Night in Kingston Leaves USMNT Needing a Win in Columbus
For 36 seconds, things unfolded perfectly. The final strains of Jamaica’s amazing national anthem were still echoing around Kingston’s Independence Park when Clint Dempsey slotted home a rebound of Herculez Gomez’s shot, giving the United States men’s national team a 1-0 lead over Jamaica in an important World Cup qualifying match. The winner of the […]
Read moreZen and the Art of an Andre Ward Beatdown
A theory: If you found someone who had never watched a round of boxing, and you made him watch the recent fights of Andre Ward, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao, Sergio Martinez, Juan Manuel Marquez, Nonito Donaire, Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, and anyone else you think might deserve consideration as one of the best fighters […]
Read moreAbout Last Weekend: Mile-High Manning
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports over the weekend. Peyton Manning threw his first two touchdowns as a Bronco, and the 400th and 401st of his career, in a 31-19 victory over the Steelers. After the game, Peyton received a phone call from someone with […]
Read moreSeptember 7, 2012
Roster Doctor: Last-Minute Shopping
This season, the Roster Doctor has doled out plenty of theoretical advice, on the best types of players to pursue, the best types of trades to make, the broad trends you should exploit to win your league. That time is over. There’s less than a month to go this season. If you’re still in the […]
Read moreFantasy Island Week 1 Preview
Each week, the Fantasy Island contestants will submit a preview for each of that weekend’s games. The best preview from each game will be selected and combined with the others into one comprehensive guide, where points are awarded based on how many individual previews from each writer are selected. Get it? OK. We sorta do […]
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Art Modell: The View From Cleveland
“When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.” — Joan Didion Here in the bizarro world of Greater Cleveland, it comes as a surprise to see the late Art Modell narrowcast into a prevailing legacy — the marriage of football and television — an alchemy that former NBC president Dick Ebersol this […]
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The New York Jets Quarterbacks Index of Good and Evil
[Click for a larger version.] This season, two Jets quarterbacks — Mark Sanchez and that other guy — are about to embark on a classic battle of good and evil. OK, maybe just evil and evil. To commemorate this adventure, we look back at the heavenly, but mostly hellacious, history of New York Jets quarterbacking. […]
Read moreThe Weekend Baseball Top 10: The Camden Jam-In
Here are the most compelling matchups, stories, and personalities in Major League Baseball for the coming weekend. 10. Strasburg’s Last Start in Washington (Friday, WAS-MIA) It’s easy to sit here, from a neutral vantage point, and say the Nationals are doing the right thing by pulling the plug on Strasburg before the playoffs. And they […]
Read moreSpeed Kills: The Oregon Offense Starts Its Engine
Last Saturday night, I lay half-asleep in a hotel room and watched Oregon play the Arkansas State Red Wolves in a football game that felt more like a hypnagogic fantasia. The Ducks were dressed up, as always, in Nike’s Alternate Elfin no. 6 color scheme, and they moved as if they were literally being chased […]
Read moreYour Semi-Ignorant Guide to College Football: Week 2
Hey guys, good news. I’ve got a fantasy football story for you! Look, I know it’s horrible to hear about someone else’s fantasy experience, and I’m being totally self-indulgent here, but I can’t help it. This is my first year playing fantasy football. It’s like when a comedian has his first kid — they know […]
Read moreWe Went There: The Hoosiers Gym
On the day his beloved Patriots were to play in Super Bowl XLVI, Bill Simmons made a pilgrimage to Hoosier Gym in Knightstown, Indiana, where they filmed Hoosiers. The trip was an attempt to bring luck and victory to the New England Patriots. It did not.
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Ward vs. Dawson and the Lost Art of Appreciating the Lost Art of Boxing
There’s wasn’t much overlap between Willie Pep’s years of lucidity and the age of Google. But it would have warmed the heart of arguably the greatest defensive fighter in boxing history to know that the second suggestion offered when you type his name into the search engine, trailing only “Willie Pep boxer,” is “Willie Pep […]
Read moreCousin Sal’s Week 1 NFL Prop Bets!
“Are you ready to lose your 401KKKK??!!” I may hire Hank Williams Jr. to work on that one a little. We can all breathe a little easier. Football is back. And I figured it went so well last year (just play along) I would again offer up my keen insights as to which weekly NFL […]
Read moreAbout Last Night: Baltimore Bringing AL East Down to the Wire
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday. The Baltimore Orioles used three home runs in the eighth inning to break open a tie ball game and surge to a 10-6 win over the Yankees. With 25 games left in the season, the teams are […]
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