It's high season for us reality TV devotees: We've got the housewives of both Atlanta and Beverly Hills back in our lives, The Challenge remains in to...
Each week, the Fantasy Island contestants will submit a preview for each of that weekend's games. The best preview from each game will be selected and...
Guys, I'm not gonna put lipstick on the Week 12 pig. This is not a terrific Saturday. After several weeks of knocking us back on our heels with marque...
Mike Trout should have won the American League Most Valuable Player award. He didn't, for reasons ranging from Cabrera winning the Triple Crown (a thr...
Only I could win four out of five of my major prop bets, go 3-and-0 with my best bets against the spread, and not have a dime to show for it. Yes R...
Mike D'Antoni's best teams were in Phoenix during the mid '00s. Those great Suns teams were led by Steve Nash and Amar'e Stoudemire, and their play wa...
Every week in this space, Grantland's Andy Greenwald will run down the happenings and mishappenings in NBC's Thursday comedy night done mostly right. ...
This week featured the best elimination challenge in the history of the GRTFL, the worst run-in with the law in the history of the GRTFL, the greatest...
Despite Alabama's loss to last year's Big 12 also-ran Texas A&M, reports of the SEC's death are greatly exaggerated. And entirely premature. That conf...
Jalen Rose and David Jacoby talk about the Lakers' hiring of Mike D'Antoni, NBA players' mile-high gambling etiquette, and how athletes manipulate the...
Since Aaron Sorkin signed on to adapt Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography, he's spoken a bit in general about the project, explaining his intention...
In celebration of the NFL's release of the all-22 and end-zone film for the 2012 season, each week we'll be bringing you the best in offensive- and de...
Some might say that we have been a little obsessed with Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's latest cinematic jaunt into American history, for months now. Befo...
Kim is the one with the ass that launched a thousand ships and a couple of Kanye songs. Khloe is the one with a human soul. Kourtney is the other one....
Welcome back to our series Rembert Explains the '80s. Every so often, we'll e-mail 25-year-old Rembert Browne a video from the 1980s that he hasn't se...
Who's up for another three hours of shitty football? Pull up a chair and watch poorly prepared, banged-up football players from two forgettable teams...
In this corner: Guy Fieri, the immensely popular Food Network personality best known for a gauche personal aesthetic and an unabiding devotion to anyt...
The temptation to compare television protagonists with their creators is usually one worth avoiding. After all, there's little evidence that David Cha...
We went through this last season with Miami. The Heat allowed the fourth-most 3-point attempts in the league — while playing at a below-average ...
For reasons still not entirely clear to them, Grantland editors Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have decided to track the second sea...
Last Thursday, in the waning moments of the Seattle Sounders' playoff victory over Real Salt Lake, left back Marc Burch was caught on camera calling a...
Kevin Wildes pitches Bill Simmons a half-baked idea that involves people paying money to be scarred by wild animal attacks, but, you know, in a contro...
Ephraim Salaam details to Robert Mays the ready availability of prescription pain pills in NFL locker rooms and how he would treat his injuries before...
You may have noticed that we at Grantland take bad quarterback play very seriously. While Grantland's finest in the Los Angeles office take part in th...
This comes to us via a reader named Andy, from Los Angeles. Thanks, Andy. You've done your country a great service by sharing this photo of Robin Lope...
Last night was Ladies' Night at Briarcliff, and by Ladies' Night I mean that ladies were on the torture menu exclusively. Nipple lampshade appetizer...
In today's NBA, it's hard to find a more polarizing player than Blake Griffin. To those that despise him, Griffin is a whiny, flopping ogre capable on...
After what has felt like an eternity, the boys are back, blazer-to-blazer, to recap another strange week in the English Premier League. It seems takin...
Last night SpikeTV aired Eddie Murphy: One Night Only, a star-studded tribute to Eddie. And even if it wasn't SpikeTV, where every programming decisio...
I was shivering in the open, unheated press box in Krasnodar's Kuban Stadium, watching the United States men's national team as they were losing 1-0 t...
Star Kirstie Alley's Juicy Memoir Is All About Men: She dated Tim 'Otter' Matheson in the early '80s "until one fateful night when his secret fiancee...
Editor's note: Steven Spielberg's Lincoln gets its wide theatrical release this weekend, so the rest of the country can see what we coastal elites hav...
Clay Harbor, for whatever reason, does not have Wi-Fi. According to Robert Griffin III, Andy Reid met with him at the NFL Scouting Combine back in Feb...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC IS SO OVERRATED I MEAN SURE HE'S WON NINE LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS AND BEEN SERIE A FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR THREE TIMES BUT HE'S DEFINIT...
Monday night saw the induction of the four newest members of the Hockey Hall of Fame. The night was a celebration of excellence, and featured a univer...
Early this morning, in a solemn ceremony during which tragically obsoleted sexy-person Bradley Cooper was relieved of his crown, smeared with hot tar,...
At 8:45 on a Sunday morning in late October, the fans started lining up at Fiesta Hall in Whittier. The doors were scheduled to open in 15 minutes, an...
"Hey, Nate Silver, you just bested a nation of screaming pundits by correctly predicting the presidential election outcomes in all 50 states — w...
The Toronto Blue Jays and Miami Marlins pulled off a 12-player trade, one that's being hailed as a gigantic upgrade for the Jays and the latest fire s...
Steve Kerr joins Bill to discuss the Lakers hiring Mike D'Antoni, working games with Marv Albert, and Kerr's best story from his days playing with Mic...
The latest trailer for Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis's Kickstarter-funded film The Canyons is cut like a '50s melodrama, giving us a taste of th...
"Only n---- in Beverly Hills / where the hell is Axel Foley at?" Kanye queried earlier this year. Why, he's on CBS, of course! While the network hasn'...
For the Saints and their fans, a season that seemed dead on arrival after an 0-4 start has sprung back to life. New Orleans has gone on a 4-1 run sinc...
Younger readers — or readers of my Friday Morning QB columns — may not realize it, but there was a time when Thursdays on NBC were the pre...
Pretty much every morning, About Last Night provides you with the essential sports headlines that you need to know. This is not one of those mornings....
This week on the pod, Andy and I spent some more time with a recent favorite topic, James Bond. Do the creeping Nolanisms, gorgeous cinematography (Ro...
If a tie in the NFL is bad, then a tie in fantasy football is considerably worse. There are plenty of silver linings to be found on both sides after S...
Grantland's Zach Lowe joins the show to discuss the Lakers' hiring of Mike D'Antoni and review the rest of the NBA. Then Bill's dad helps survey the B...
Heading into tonight's game against Orlando, New York is the only undefeated team in the NBA. Save the pillowcase–of–snow globes thumping ...
Is it time for us to let the whole "bullshit magical amulet" thing go and accept that this is a show about the desire to possess the world's greatest ...
There is much to celebrate this week in atrocious quarterbacking: Yo Gabba Gabbert was benched, Nick Foles did many Nick Folesian things, Mark Sanchez...
A few hours after the Bengals beat the Giants, I'm in the passenger seat of a blue rental car with Colorado plates, driving to Pasadena with my friend...
New Lakers head coach Mike D'Antoni brings with him the famed spread pick-and-roll system that in the mid-2000s rejuvenated not only the Suns franchis...
This is Taylor Armstrong. On August 15, 2011, her husband Russell, who had been physically abusing her for years and who was involved in myriad shady ...
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard t...
Krasnodar, Russia, is a gray city. It was founded as a Cossack fortress and now boasts roughly 700,000 citizens, lying about 830 miles due south of Mo...
"It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over." —...
If there's a silver lining to the injury bug that's bitten the Baltimore Ravens this season, it comes in the form of being able to finally evaluate Jo...
Kevin Sumlin beat Alabama on the road Saturday. He did. I didn't think he could, but he did. Was I the only one thinking about Mike Sherman — Su...
As THR points out, Judd Apatow did a long interview with Movie City News (embedded below), during which he let go some info about Girls, which he exec...
The MTV EMAs — that's the Europe Music Awards — went down in Frankfurt, Germany last night. Did you miss anything particularly big? No, of...
It's been a long time since we've heard from Anthony Richardson. If doing commentary on computer vs. computer video-game simulations is an art form, h...
"We're all just fans of R. Kelly," said Luke Welch, standing in front of a 5-foot-high papier mâché rendering of the musician's head. It was...
I don't know what to say. I don't know what's going on in my life. To even assess that, it doesn't make sense 'cause I have not made any comment. R...
We share the above supercut of "He's standing behind me, isn't he?" gags as a public service; only through the immediate and widespread dissemination ...
Local radio stations are playing Christmas music, the Chiefs are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, and Dick Vitale went into an on-air rant...
On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes...
[Ed. Note: We're gathering questions for a TV mailbag! Send your television-related queries to Andy Greenwald at grantlandtvmailbag@gmail.com and he w...
If you have even the faintest strain of geek in your past, then you've probably been party to the movie camp-out experience at least once in your life...
Shawn Marion, fiercely proud and a little defensive, was fond of telling reporters during the height of the Seven Seconds or Less Era in Phoenix that ...
Some people, apparently, haven't forgiven Anne Hathaway for the 2011 Oscars. I think it's time to get over it and enjoy her beautiful, goobly face. I ...
On Wednesday night, in a victory against the Magic, the Bulls' Joakim Noah tried to feed the people. Up big with seconds left, he chucked up a 3 ̵...
Last weekend, Skyfall had yet to open in America, and had already pulled in around $287 million. This weekend, while cruising past the $300 million ma...
Exactly one year ago Homeland aired its seventh episode. Titled The Weekend, it marked the moment the freshman series went from good to great. It ha...
