Lost in the Jeremy Lin era was one of the luckiest beneficiaries of Linsanity: no, not Mike D'Antoni, James Dolan, or Tyson Chandler, but MSG (and ESP...
Dan Klores is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and playwright and the founder of Dan Klores Communications. Here's his take on Linsanity. Roy Hobbs ...
Two of the biggest snubs of this year's Academy Awards happen to be two of my favorite movies of 2011. Neither of them is Drive, although Drive was re...
Because I live in Los Angeles, I got to the theater for the 4 p.m. screening of the original, 1985 Teen Wolf on Sunday afternoon about 10 minutes late...
The NCAA tournament in March 2008 was so thrilling for us Davidson people, so consuming, so galvanizing, that it was next to impossible to not think g...
Once again, Jalen Rose came by the studio to record the show, slung his trusty baseball bat over his shoulder, and started breaking down the NBA. He r...
It gets dark at 3:30 p.m., it's either raining, or freezing, and sometimes it's doing both. Every day looks the same because every day looks like you ...
Over the last couple weeks, response to my brazenly advertorial posts about the consulting firm I'll soon be establishing for forward-thinking, rapaci...
The Hollywood Prospectus podcast is now weekly and free to cover any topics in the pop culture universe. To celebrate, Chris Ryan and I talked ... mos...
Let the multi-platform celebration of the life and times of Jeremy Lin begin. Broadway actor Kevin Yee has "created" a new musical called Jeremy Lin: ...
Judaism and hip-hop have gone hand-in-hand for at least as far back as 1983, when the Beastie Boys (each of whom has at least one Jewish parent) relea...
Prince Fielder's gone. Ryan Braun might be gone for 50 games, pending his appeal of a suspension for taking a banned substance. Take that much pop out...
The Oscars, as I hope we've established by now, are not simply a beauty contest. But when it comes to the half-dozen categories that reward visuals, t...
In mid-January, New Mexico dropped back-to-back games against San Diego State and UNLV, the two best teams in the Mountain West Conference. The losses...
We can think of no better way - and believe us, we've spent a good chunk of the afternoon thinking about this - to celebrate Presidents Day than with ...
There were various moments last night when Sir Richard Carlisle went out of his way to cluck disapprovingly about Crawley family traditions. Everythin...
Some headlines write themselves, and then those headlines also write the blog posts that they are attached to. This is one of those headlines, and thi...
Some stars are happy to show their faces in commercials, lending their celebrity to endorse the products they truly believe in, as Tina Fey is doing w...
Much of the early offseason speculation in Wrigleyville centered on whether Prince Fielder would be coming to town. Instead, the Cubs will go with a 2...
Much of the conversation about The Walking Dead has focused on the problems at the top, and rightly so: The transition from Frank Darabont to Glen Maz...
It's been almost six months since I wrote my first column on the 2012 Oscar race, and we're finally at predictions week. The ballots are in (or will b...
This week got off to quite a start for 22-year-old Washington Capitals goaltending prospect Braden Holtby. After making 34 saves for the AHL's Hershey...
Kevin Love is a shooter before anything else. Even though we would expect him, as a power forward, to be comfortable playing close to the basket, the ...
For your holiday weekend listening pleasure: Didn't you know Chuck Klosterman would have a unique take on Linsanity? That ended up being our launching...
Oh, Dave Grohl. You're 43 years old. Everybody who will possibly ever love you already loves you. You have great hair, a wonderful beard, a classicall...
Every week in this space, Grantland pop culture correspondent Andy Greenwald will run down the happenings and mishappenings in NBC's Thursday comedy n...
When the games ended Thursday night and I considered the results, my stomach sank. The world craves variety, but the unavoidable, incorrigible ACC had...
Apologies up front for missing this clip. We're a little late. Our bad. The video is from a Clips-Bobcats game from this past Saturday. Bobcats games ...
After a mid-decade slump, HBO is back to its starry best on the drama side, finding success by investing in blood and horses. (And, in the case of Gam...
Join The Basketball Jones on the sonic journey that is The Overdose. On today's show, we examine Linsanity. (Can Melo and Jeremy Lin coexist? Should t...
All season, Grantland Idol experts Jay Caspian Kang and Mark Lisanti will answer five very important questions following each performance show. This h...
America! Make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in an upright and locked position and turn off all electronic devices. J.R. Smith is COMING IN ...
Rihanna had a Caribbean-themed 24th-birthday party in Beverly Hills on Monday night at Hearst Mansion, which is not Hearst Castle, but how rad would i...
Remember 30 Rock's fictional reality TV show MILF Island? 25 Super-Hot Moms, 50 eighth grade boys, no rules? That was a pretty great joke, right? We...
In this latest edition of the Hollywood Prospectus podcast, Grantland in-house Idol experts Jay Caspian Kang and Mark Lisanti break down the results o...
Dengerous Liaisons Here's the scenario: A team's MVP-caliber player goes down, leaving room in the spotlight for one of his teammates to finally shin...
So far, the sensation of Linsanity has been about overlooked underdogs, seizing opportunities, and, yes, race. But undergirding every story trying to ...
Oh, dear. Yeah, there was pretty much no way to know that a conversation that started with comparing Mitt Romney's bland handsomeness to that of your ...
Editor's Note: Welcome back to our series Rembert Explains the '80s. Every so often, we'll e-mail 24-year-old Rembert Browne a video from the 1980s th...
Great success for the virtual acting community: The upcoming Transformers movie, the fourth in the franchise, will most likely not feature any of the ...
In what will certainly be a collision of TV nerd worlds so intense it will release the energy equivalent of a thousand Arrested Development movie rumo...
In a way, Wednesday night marked the end of an era. About five minutes into the third quarter of New York's game against Sacramento, it became evident...
Great news! Common vs. Drake, the world's most hilariously inept feud, may not be done quite yet. According to some people that maybe know some people...
What's the point of qualifying for Champions League, Arsene? "I have always told you exactly the same, the priority is to be in the top four," Arsena...
Last night's premiere of Survivor: One World was promising. First of all, this season has retired Redemption Island, which I found sort of boring and ...
Back in 2010, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts were tentatively attached to the adaptation of Tracy Lett's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage Co...
Us Chris Brown: "Confidently approached an attractive brunette" at a Grammy after-party and said, "Can I get your number? I promise I won't beat you!...
Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder have fled the division. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Reds kept their marquee first baseman, added a potential ace, and b...
Were you at all wondering what Golden State coach Mark Jackson thinks about former Golden State Warriors guard Jeremy Lin? Do you think Mark Jackson w...
"I'm just hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican. I can't bear to watch what's happened to our great country. Everybody'...
On Friday night, the New York Knicks outdueled Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers at Madison Square Garden. Jeremy Lin, who recorded a career-hig...
With an emphatic 21-point win over indie darling Creighton on Saturday, Wichita State poked a tentative head out from the underground tunnel of mid-ma...
1. Metta World Peace, Swagvisor Yes. I am letting the word "swag" out of the penalty box, albeit briefly. I feel like Workaholics buried the whole co...
It was a big weekend for Chris Brown. On Sunday, his unofficial Grammy ban was lifted, and he returned to the show for the first time in three years. ...
Why would someone line up 22 tiny videos of the first minute of every James Bond film in a single YouTube window? Because there were 60 seconds of you...
The headlines say the Linsanity beat went on Tuesday night. New York's final two possessions in its 90-87 win over the Raptors — in which Lin ti...
Among my growing list of signs the Mayans are probably right about 2012 - in addition to a Harvard-educated Asian American Christian taking the NBA by...
In a year when a book about stats adapted into a movie might actually win a bunch of Oscars, it's appropriate to find a team that generates far more e...
The other day I somewhat randomly turned on an episode from Season 1 of Justified called "Hatless." The episode starts with Raylan tying one on in the...
Love is in the air in the crap part of Soho as Roger and Michael celebrate their union with a Valentine's Day Special. Luckily, it's a mix of business...
For a while there, every time a movie adaptation of a beloved TV show was discussed, it was our cue to roll our eyes and scoff and flick the back of o...
