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Readers' Revenge: Your Most Cowardly Moment

By Shane Ryan at

It's time for Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Most Cowardly Moment. After a slow beginning, the e-mails poured in later in the week, and this ended up being one of my favorite batches.

Below are the top seven e-mails, along with the Seth from Conway special. You can check out past installments in the box below. We're off next Monday for the holiday, but the topic for two weeks from now is The Strangest Place You've Ever Woken Up (and the story of how you got there). Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com for a chance to make the cut. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well. Enjoy!

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Readers' Revenge: Your Worst Workplace Embarrassment

By Shane Ryan at

It's time for Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Biggest Workplace Embarrassment. I received tons of great e-mails as always, so please don't take it personally if yours didn't make the cut. To give you an idea of how terrible I am at this, I rejected a story this week about a 76ers employee who got pantsed at center court by a mascot.

Below are the top eight e-mails. You can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week is Your Most Cowardly Moment. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the cut. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well. Enjoy!

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Readers' Revenge: Your Best Prank

By Shane Ryan at

It's time for Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Best Prank. One thing you should know about Reader's Revenge is that I love reading the e-mails, and narrowing them down is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. That includes the time I had to choose which relative I loved the most as the beneficiary of my insurance policy (in the end, me). When I've narrowed down my list, I always feel like I've screwed up, so anyone who sent me an awesome story, don't take it personally if you didn't make the cut. It's my fault.

Below are the top nine e-mails, and you can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week will be Worst Moment With the In-Laws/Significant Other's Family. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the cut. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well.

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Readers' Revenge: Your Worst Experience in a Foreign Country

By Shane Ryan at

It's time for Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Worst Experience in a Foreign Country. I'm happy to report that we received a record number of e-mails, and so, so many of them centered on the theme of digestive problems. I'm literally delirious from reading them all, and I'll never eat food again. But thanks for all who submitted — it was the hardest one to narrow down yet. I can't believe how many great stories got rejected.

Below are the top nine e-mails, and you can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week will be Your Best Prank. It can be one you played, one played on you, etc. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the cut. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well.

We begin, as usual, with the Seth from Conway Honorary Story. Enjoy!

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Readers' Revenge: Your Most Shameful Lie

By Shane Ryan at

It's time for Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Most Shameful Lie. I'm not sure what I was expecting when I put this one out to the general population, but the result might make you quit reading Grantland forever to avoid sullying your good name by association. Just know that Grantland and I are neutral observers, and we don't endorse or condone anything that happens in these stories. I do laugh, though. I laugh and laugh and laugh, and then I take a long hard look at myself, and then I laugh again. But this time more quietly.

Below are the top e-mails, plus a new feature, and you can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week will be Your Worst Moment in a Foreign Country. Define "worst" however you see fit — most horrible, most shameful, etc. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the cut. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well. Enjoy!

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Readers' Revenge: Your Worst Interview Stories

By Shane Ryan at

It's time for "Readers' Revenge," the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Worst Interview. To give you an idea of the quality of stories received, I actually had to reject an e-mail where the interviewee licked the side of a ketchup bottle at lunch, and another where the interviewee kept insisting to the (thin, female) interviewer that she would "fill out nicely when her metabolism slowed." Thanks, Brian and Anne, and sorry, but it was that kind of week. Also, I've received a lot of crazy stories, but this week's no. 1 might be the most batshit of all time.

Below are the top 10 e-mails, and you can check out past installments in the box below. The topic for next week will be Your Worst/Most Shameful Lie. Send your very best to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the top 10. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well. Enjoy!

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Reader's Revenge: Your Worst Rejection Stories

By Shane Ryan at

Monday means "Readers' Revenge," the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to YOU, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Worst Rejection. I got a lot of good e-mails about sports rejections and job rejections, but there were so many heartbreaking romantic ones that I decided to just roll with that theme. Each week I try to come up with a lesson derived from the e-mails I received, and for this week, I'll just hit you with a question: What's more painful than life? (Also, the batch below concludes with what might be my favorite e-mail of all time.)

Below are the top 10 e-mails. The topic for next week will be Your Worst Job Interview. I imagine I'll mostly get e-mails from the interviewee, and that's awesome, but if you were the interviewer, I bet you've got some solid tales of your own. Send your best story to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to be as famous as Johnny Depp before his 21 Jump Street days. Stories can involve you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. Those with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well. Enjoy!

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Readers' Revenge: Worst Animal Encounters

By Shane Ryan at

It's time for the next installment of Readers' Revenge, the weekly feature in which we turn Grantland over to you, the unpredictable reader. This week's topic was Your Worst Encounter with an Animal. As usual, the response was terrific and I wish the list could have been twice as long. A lot of tough decisions were made; this is the part of my job I enjoy the least.

Below are the top e-mails. The topic for next week will be: Your Worst Rejection. Romantic interaction? Club? Team? Frat? Church? Something else? Send your story to tobaccordblues@gmail.com by Sunday for a chance to make the list and live on in history, or at least until someone finally bans the Internet. Stories can be about you or someone you know, and anonymity is allowed. E-mails with a high degree of hilarity and humiliation always do well.

A note of caution about this week's edition: Some of these are a little … graphic. So. You've been warned. You can read old installments of Readers' Revenge in the box below. Enjoy!

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Q&A: Former Temple Coach John Chaney

By Brandon Lilly at

Philadelphia native John Chaney led the Temple Owls to 17 NCAA tournaments in 18 years. During his Hall of Fame career, the Owls played an unorthodox and physical matchup zone that no other team could replicate, forcing far more talented teams to leave contests against Temple both bruised and befuddled. Temple’s offense was often equally as brutal, but they hit just enough shots for Chaney to win 516 games in his tenure on North Broad Street. At their best, the Owls were a team that suffocated the will out of their opponents, routinely leading the nation in scoring defense and turnover margin. You had to beat Temple — they would not beat themselves — and opposing coaches would openly complain when they drew the Owls in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

He was not a saint, and there were parts of him that was pure South Philly. But you always knew where he stood. Chaney retired at the end of the 2006 campaign, but at the age of 80, he still closely follows the game. Earlier this week, we caught up with the legendary coach to discuss Temple’s impending move to the Big East, his former nemesis, John Calipari, and scouting tips on some of the nation’s top teams.

You’ve seen the recent upheaval with Temple finally making the move to the Big East. Would you have liked to coach in the Big East?

I’m kind of ambivalent about it. Years ago, the Big East had a vote as to whether or not to take us into the league. And at that time, they took us in football, but not in basketball. And at that time, we were playing as good or better than most of the teams in the Big East. It didn’t make sense, but I really didn’t give a damn about the Big East.

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Quotes of the Month (Now With More Washington Wizards!)

By Sam Strong at

January is winding down, which means it's time for one of The Triangle's favorite features — Quotes of the Month. As you might recall, the boss requested we revive this one, which we were happy to do, because this month Flip Saunders said: “Booing is not going to help somebody play better," so it's great to have an opportunity to point that out.

Yes, OK, perhaps we're a little heavy on Wizards quotes this month. In our defense, they were terrible.

Thanks to our Grantland interns who put this post (and the last one!) together. We'll remind you about this next month, so Friends of Grantland can submit their own entries ... and make our lives easier.

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Quotes of the Month


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Per the boss' orders, Quotes of the Day/Week/Whatever makes its glorious return! We decided to make it Quotes of the Month this time, but we're not sure if that'll stick. (We're reviving this feature from the dead, so cut us some slack for now, OK?) Many thanks to our intern, Jovan Buha, who compiled these, and thanks to all the Friends of Grantland who sent us quotes. Our favorites are below.

If you have a contribution for the next edition, send us an e-mail: triangle@grantland.com. (Subject line: "Quotes of the Whatever.")

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Quotes of the Week 2.0


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"He's a good running back ... He does a good job for them,"
-- Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher on Denver quarterback Tim Tebow.

Bahahaha. Good one, Brian. Well played. We love a good line as much as the next guy. So we were thrilled when the boss suggested bringing back Quotes of the Day after stumbling across some old posts.

If you have a suggestion for Quotes of the Day (Or Quotes of the Week. Whatever. We're still working this out.) e-mail us at triangle@grantland.com. (Subject line: "Quotes of the Week.") Thanks in advance for your contribution to The Triangle.

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