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Maybe today isn't the best day to get morbid on y'all, but this week's tragic French Survivor deaths made us wonder, Carrie Bradshaw–style, about how dependent pop culture is becoming on high-risk entertainment. From the literal task of survivi...

When David Stern's magnanimous grin flashed across an LED jumbotron in metro Manila Monday afternoon to announce that "the NBA will play its first preseason game in the Philippines this October," a pulse of enthusiasm shot through Filipino communitie...

There's one final piece of business left to cover regarding the 2012 NFL season: my preseason Over/Under bets. As Jonah Keri begins to break down this year's MLB Over/Under opportunities, it's time for me to look back and see how my preseason bets wo...

On today's show, The Basketball Jones discuss All-Star snubs and surprises, who they want in the 3-Point Shootout and Slam Dunk Contest, trades they'd like to see, and some of their preseason predictions regarding potential playoff teams, backup poin...

Maya Moore has already made her mark on the WNBA. That means the next question for the league is, what will Brittney Griner bring?

With all the rookie quarterbacks going from dorm rooms to film rooms this season, there was so much potential for the marvelous missteps we have come to expect and celebrate here at BQBL headquarters. If you told me during the preseason that in Week ...

A week inside Grizzlies HQ with coach Lionel Hollins.

Inside the NBA preseason with Jason Terry and the Boston Celtics.

I'm going to have to run this by Zach Lowe, but I think this one has legs ... or at the very least booster rockets. Indiana beat Cleveland in a GAH IT'S ALMOST THE SEASON preseason matchup last night. Gerald Green was +20 in 29 minutes of playing ...

This is the first installment of BOOGIEWATCH, the Triangle's running series on the NBA's most compelling, hilarious, and huggable power forward. We will tally all things Boogie, a list that includes dirty looks, headbands thrown in disgust, defensive...

• Jarrett Jack got a bit of publicity when he tweeted earlier in the week that the league warned him about flopping in a preseason game as part of its new anti-flop crackdown. But he's far from the only one. A league source tells Grantland the N...

Three games into the Ligue 1 season, things looked bleak for Paris Saint-Germain. The team was winless and sitting in 13th place in the table. It all seemed a long way from the preseason hype and the expectation that the team backed by Qatari billion...

There are only three undefeated teams left in the NFL: the Atlanta Falcons, the Houston Texans, and — wait for it — the Arizona Cardinals. Not only is Arizona's record a surprise, but to get there, they knocked off preseason favorites New...

The Monday Night Football fiasco showed that football is on a dangerous course to irrelevance.

In the debut of our The Trenches podcast, Grantland's Robert Mays and 13-year NFL veteran Ephraim Salaam discuss the song and dance of the NFL's preseason, the Dez Bryant rules, the consequences of training camp holdouts, and Vontae Davis's move from...