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Winners and Losers From the NBA Lottery
Andrew SharpYou know how at the beginning of every NFL season, everyone is 0-0 and has a chance at the Super Bowl? That is not true in the NBA. For fans of five to 10 teams every year, the NBA draft lottery is the Super Bowl. No other sport decides its future...
Blog | May 22, 2013 -
MLB Weekend Top 10: Texas Exceptionalism Forever
Shane RyanAnd we are BACK, with your all-purpose* guide to the weekend in MLB action. *Single-purpose, really. It's super limited in function. You can only read it. 10. no. 2 UNC vs. no. 3 Virginia (Friday, 8 p.m. and Saturday, 2 p.m., ESPN3) Whoa! Supe...
Blog | May 17, 2013 -
The Upfronts: Scrambling ABC Takes Cover Behind Marvel's S.H.I.E....
Andy GreenwaldThe sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the agents are drinking. It's upfronts season in New York! This is the week the broadcast networks throw fancy parties to announce the new shows they'll be canceling in a few months and celebrate the re...
Blog | May 15, 2013 -
Grit, Grind, and Squeeeeeeeeeeze
Andrew SharpJust a super-important picture of the Memphis Grizzlies in an elevator right here. Analysis: Mike Conley is completely miserable, Darrell Arthur is accusing someone of farting, Jon Leuer is pretending he didn't fart, Z-Bo is just loving life as Z-Bo ...
Blog | May 14, 2013 -
Sifting Through What's Left of the NFL's Free-Agent Heap
Robert MaysThe 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 ...
Blog | May 14, 2013 -
The New Stephen Curry: How the Warriors' Super-Shooter Has Transf...
Zach LoweWhen the Warriors lost David Lee to what the team assumed was a season-ending injury in the team's first playoff game, I was skeptical that Golden State would be able to reconstruct its offense on the fly against an opponent devoting nearly 100 perce...
Blog | May 10, 2013 -
Ray Rice and Torrey Smith Have a Call of Duty Score to Settle
Mike PhilbrickSuper 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...
Blog | April 24, 2013 -
Bill Parcells career arc
Bryan CurtisHow a free-agent coach mastered the NFL.
Story | Conversation | April 18, 2013 -
QT Eats: Tarantino's 20 Best Food Scenes
Zach DionneThe life and times of Quentin Tarantino have gotta be great, right? Sure, making ambitious, super long movies must be taxing. But QT in the offseason? Just listening to albums both obscure and classic, watching all the best old films and all the wors...
Blog | April 16, 2013 -
The Elysium Trailer: The Space/Class-Warfare Revolution Will Be T...
Amos BarshadFour years ago, director Neill Blomkamp, then not yet 30, came out of nowhere (well, technically, "came out of South Africa") to drop District 9, a modestly budgeted sci-fi flick that somehow managed to be simultaneously sharp and funny and super sad...
Blog | April 10, 2013 -
The Strange Case of the Super Mario Bros. Movie
Karina LongworthUnearthing a major disaster to learn the lessons held within.
Story | Conversation | April 05, 2013 -
Celebrity Instagram Photo Hunt: How Many Emmys Are Next to Jeremy...
Mark LisantiOn Sunday night, former Entourage super-agent Jeremy Piven took to Twitter to thank his fans for checking out the American premiere of Mr. Selfridge on PBS, his new show about the adventures of a fast-talking Yankee department-store magnate set loose...
Blog | April 01, 2013 -
House Eats 3: Cousin Sal vs. Joe House
Grantland ChannelJimmy 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....
Blog | March 05, 2013 -
Fun With Gravity: The Video-Game Arc in Angry Birds Star Wars, Ti...
Tevis ThompsonBefore Angry Birds, there was Wii Sports. There was the stunt ramp of Grand Theft Auto, the big air of SSX, the power slide of countless racers. There was the lob of Halo's plasma grenade, the rocket jump of Quake. And throughout it all, the man of 1...
Blog | February 27, 2013 -
Afternoon Links: Rob Lowe's Snow White Talks, the Scooby Gang Sin...
Tess LynchHere's a look back at Rob Lowe's bad date with a princess on the stage of the 61st Academy Awards: "Poor Snow White. She didn't have the dwarves to support her." The fake Guy Fieri menu that featured "38 oz of super-saddened, Cheez-gutted wol...
Blog | February 20, 2013 -
MLB's Super Sweet 16 Prospects Coming to a Pennant Race Near You
Jonah KeriEven after they had contended all season, even after their starting rotation took off in the second half, even after a five-game winning streak in early August propelled them into a three-way tie for the wild card, the Orioles didn't have many believ...
Blog | February 18, 2013