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The first few days of NFL free agency are a jumble of names, rumors, and fan delusion (mostly the fan delusion). No matter how many times we see a team win a Super Bowl on the back of solid drafting and player development, early March always becomes ...

Before anybody sits down to eat a big bowl of Iron Man 3 (well, any North American body; the rest of the world's been eating for a week, and based on the grosses I'd say they're full), Steven Soderbergh needs the world to know that the movies are in ...

Super Bowl champions Ray Rice and Torrey Smith met at video game producer Treyarch's studios in Santa Monica this week to settle an argument: Who would win in a Call of Duty: Black Ops II grudge match? Before they sat down to virtually duke it out on...

How a free-agent coach mastered the NFL.

In case you were out demanding that Red Lobster serve you a never-ending pasta bowl, here's what you missed in sports on Monday: In a thrilling conclusion to the NCAA tournament, the Louisville Cardinals beat the Michigan Wolverines, 82-76, to w...

Syracuse and its devastating 2-3 zone are headed to the Final Four. And for an old-school defense, it's really something else.

Jimmy Kimmel Live's Cousin Sal faces off against B.S. Report stalwart Joe House in an eating competition at New Orleans's Acme Oyster House. It's gross. For real....

Justin Timberlake has just gifted us with the video for "Suit & Tie" - delivered on Valentine's Day, one assumes, in order to inspire his many adoring fans to ably, and with full-throated theatricality, consummate the bedroom pyrotechnics mandate...

Silver: Forget the Oscars (Seriously. We should. It's gotten to the point where the hype in/around awards season is more appealing than the telecast. Which at this point feels more like required DMV orientation-video viewing.) Each year, I look to th...

Robert Mays and Ephraim Salaam talk Super Bowl XLVII, NFL free agency, and which teams are set to succeed next season. Listen to this podcast here. Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page....

Star THE BEST AND WORST LOVERS IN HOLLYWOOD: Angelina Jolie is "Surprise! Boring in bed." Whaaaaaa? This alleged information comes from shade thrown by her ex, Billy Bob Thornton, who has said, "sometimes, with the model, the actress, the 'sexie...

It is no surprise the one episode I forced myself to skip a recap for, due to being in New Orleans for the Super Bowl, found a way to be not only the most exciting episode of the season, but also the one in which we finally see EVIL TOBY IN A NOT-SO-...

Cousin Sal and Joe House join Bill to break down the Super Bowl weekend, speculate about NBA trades, and announce the winner of their eating contest. To listen to this podcast, you can download it on iTunes here or go to the ESPN.com PodCenter...

Super Bowl weekend was the one annual event I'd missed during my year in Las Vegas. I'd managed to take in every other special time in town: New Year's Eve. Independence Day. The World of Concrete convention. All of them, observed and processed. But ...

The day after the Super Bowl is usually reserved for hangovers, trips to Disney World, or, if you're one of the other members of Destiny's Child, picking up a few extra shifts at Gimbels. (I kid! Luv u, Kelly!) But a case of the Mondays isn't enough ...

For those of us who grew up with the lopsided Super Bowls of the 1980s, it seems as if we've had an unusual run. The past few years of Super Bowls have stayed tight, the result in doubt until the very end. It's almost miraculous we haven't had one go...