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• in Sports
  Grantland Launches June 8
  According to Bill Simmons, Grantland.com will launch on June 8. This ESPN-backed website will focus on sports and pop culture.
  by caseyarmstrong / on Jun 3, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “grantland”

 

• Jesus Was a Commie (2011, Terence Ziegler and Matthew Modine)

  
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  A self-reflective video essay can’t be rare these days, not with the Internet. Jesus Was a Commie is a little different though. It’s not an amateur recording on a cellphone, it’s Matthew Modine walking around New York City while his essay plays in voice over. Having the narrator walk around without any ...
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• Grantland: How Disappointing Was Your Teams NHL Playoff Run?

  
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  This is the time of year when you can expect to repeatedly encounter some variation of these words: We’re down to just two teams left standing in the NHL playoffs . That phrasing always seemed oddly appropriate, since it implies that the rest of the league must be on the ground. And metaphorically speaking, ...
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• Grantland grab bag: Are we supposed to hate Sidney Crosby?

  
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  In this weeks grab bag: The Great Pens/Bruins War of 91, mocking bad uniforms, feeling sorry for Bill Muckalt, and the Sidney Crosby debate. >> Read the full post on Grantland
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• Grantland: A visual guide to four decades of Bruins/Penguins hatred

  
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  The Bruins and Penguins are three games into their conference finals matchup, and the series has already produced its share of bad blood. We’ve seen Matt Cooke ejected for hitting Andrew McQuaid from behind, a fight between Evgeni Malkin and Patrice Bergeron, and Sidney Crosby going nose-to-chest with Zdeno Chara. ...
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• Jalen Rose Is Pretty Sure Dwight Howard Is Headed To The Houston Rockets, And His Reasoning Is Solid

  
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  In Jalen Rose’s mind, there are only two possible destinations for Dwight Howard this summer: his current team, the L.A. Lakers, or the Houston Rockets. And you know what? If you ask him to pick one, he’s going with Houston. Based on what we know now, we can’t disagree. After somewhat contradicting himself on ...
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• Grantland: Whats Wrong With the L.A. Kings? (And Can They Fix It?)

  
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  The old sports cliché says that you’re never really in trouble in a playoff series until you lose at home. But, with all due respect to the wisdom of old sports clichés, right now the Los Angeles Kings look like a team that’s in a lot of trouble. They’ve dropped the first two games of their Western ...
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• Heat Find a Sweet Spot the Pacers Can’t Match – New York Times (blog)

  
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  Christian Science MonitorHeat Find a Sweet Spot the Pacers Cant MatchNew York Times (blog)The third quarter of Indianas Game 5 loss to the Miami Heat was the culmination of every fear the Pacers had entering the Eastern Conference finals. In those 12 minutes, LeBron James summoned his most dominant stretch of the ...
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• Grantland: What happens after an ordinary action causes an unforgettable injury?

  
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  ESPN recently produced a 30 for 30 mini-documentary on the horrific injury to goaltender Clint Malarchuk , and his subsequent struggles to put his life back together. Its a great film, and I highly recommend it. As a companion piece, I wrote about the other side of the equation: the players who caused some of the ...
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• Grantland grab bag: Calm down, NHL refs. You too, Patrick Roy.

  
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  In this week’s grab bag: Why referees need to calm down with the PIMs, debating mid-game coach interviews, Yashins contract, Bill McCreary (no, the other one), and breaking down the Roy/Vernon brawl. >> Read the full post on Grantland
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• Grantland: NHL Playoffs Stock Watch

  
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  The NHL playoffs can define a player’s career. It’s when some elevate their games while others crumble, when legacies are made and lost, and when we separate the clutch performers from the choke artists. There are two schools of thought on all this, and one of them is that everything in that last paragraph is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scott Raab on the 2013 NBA Draft rumors, the “lucky” Spurs, Dan Gilbert, Mike Holmgren and more – WFNY Podcast – 2013-05-27

  
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  Scott and I found time on this holiday Monday morning to carry on as normal with our podcast. Here’s the rest of what we discussed… Memorial Day and working on it Chris Perez and his apparent shoulder injury Has anyone been hired as coach or manager to give faith like Terry Francona Randy ...
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• Trope-Recycling Bill Simmons Has Bill Simmons Syndrome

  
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  Bill Simmons this week mused on the fate of Dwight Howard, who appears to be the NBAs equivalent of plutonium: a potential world-beater but perilously radioactive. To characterize the gap between Perceived Dwight Howard and Actual Dwight Howard, the founder of Grantland and ESPN spittling-head did something very ...
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• Cleveland Browns hit reset button on media relations

  
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  Chuck Klosterman’s Grantland expose was just the tip of the iceberg. For years, perhaps shrouded by arrogance and pomp, the Cleveland Browns – yes, that awful football team – have nearly been just as awful at media relations. For one, maybe it wasn’t the true fault of Neal Gulkis. I want to give any person ...
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• Linky Links

  
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  Stuff I found interesting and thought Id share. - One of the many reasons to like Terry Francona (and good sport Don Orsillo) - The Evan Gattis story keeps getting cooler and cooler - Speaking of cool stories - it doesnt get much better than Chris Colabellas finally making it to the Big Show - Heh Heh - ...
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• Oral History of the 2003 WSOP

  
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  Excellent behind the scenes look at the game changing 2003 World Series of Poker . Three quick thoughts on the article: 1. Not a fan of people who complain that Chris Moneymaker got lucky. Every WSOP winner not named Stu Ungar was lucky. Thats the way it is in poker. You have to win all the coin-flips and get a lucky ...
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• Grantland Grab Bag: There is no Canadas Team

  
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  This week: Canadas Team, the Messier Award, Per Djoos, and a 1992 profile of Jaromir Jagrs mullet. >> Read the full post on Grantland
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• Moneymaker

  
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  Today’s a special anniversary in the poker world, one that many have been noting had been coming for the last couple of weeks. I’m referring, of course, to it being the 10th anniversary of Chris Moneymaker’s stunning victory in the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event, an event which many point to as a ...
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• Joe Banner: “We’ll be a quality, competitive team pretty quickly.”

  
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  Despite Grantland’s Chuck Klosterman struggling to get a sit-down interview with Joe Banner over Draft Weekend, Clark Judge, CBS Sport’s senior NFL analyst, was able to sit down with Cleveland Browns’ CEO Joe Banner and talk about the rebuilding project of the Browns . In what was a, frankly, candid ...
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• Grantland: The 20 types of sports fans you meet as your team crashes and burns

  
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  By now, hockey fans have probably seen the video of a group of Toronto Maple Leafs fans watching last week’s Game 7 loss to the Bruins. If you haven’t, it’s below. Fair warning: It’s downright painful to watch. You don’t have to be a Leaf fan or even follow hockey to understand what you’re witnessing. If ...
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• U.S. Open History…Start Here

  
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  by Jeff Skinner U.S. Open Countdown: 23 days As the U.S. Open at Merion grows closer you may want to bone up on your U.S. Open history or just relive some of the greatest moments in golf.  Here are three books that should be able to get you through to the Open. Who know more [...]
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