It is now being reported that Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz suffered a "mini-stroke" last Friday in Arizona - he was rushed to the hospital...
Cousin Sal joins Bill Simmons to recount his Cowboys Stadium experience, guess the Week 14 lines, and, of course, review the royal baby name betting l...
December 2007: Wichita East High School's Bryce Brown, a five-star running back largely considered to be the nation's top junior prospect, verbally co...
We're headed toward the holidays on the Hollywood Prospectus podcast, putting us in a reflective mood. After reminiscing about the good times we haven...
"WheelsUp ... Back to Cali on a business trip," the Cincinnati Bengals' Vontaze Burfict (born in Los Angeles in 1990) tells his 4,862 Twitter follower...
If you believe December to be a month defined by its commercialist ideals — and really, there's no other way — the dominant message is tha...
Look, we admit it: When Ashton Kutcher was first cast as Steve Jobs in the indie upstart to Aaron Sorkin's big-ticket biopic, we balked. Jobs, that gr...
The Washington Nationals agreed to terms with pitcher Dan Haren on a one-year, $13 million contract. It's one of those rare cases where we shouldn't a...
Ladies and gentlemen, this year's BQBL Bowl is over. It wasn't the BQBL points scored in the Jets-Cardinals game that made it special. There's no way ...
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard t...
Last year, Washington's clean sweep of the Giants was a curiosity lost amid New York's run to a second Super Bowl in five years. It was some sort of a...
OK, yes, there is some call for skepticism here: the release date for A$AP Rocky's official major label debut, LONG.LIVE.A$AP, has already been pushed...
Hey everyone. We're going to be live-tweeting the Monday Night Football clash between the Skins and Giants tonight. Grantland staffers will be bringin...
It's by no means an immutable rule. But all else being equal, baseball's development curve breaks down like this: Players who break in and hold their ...
The growing importance of the 3-point shot in today's NBA is hardly a secret. It has become an essential element for efficient team offense. Not only ...
It's December, which has historically meant three things for me: an aggressive holiday music binge; reminding my loved ones to say "Happy Holidays" in...
I spent about five hours on the highway this weekend, and before we get to the college basketball–related epiphanies for this week, I have three...
David Wright turns 30 in less than three weeks. Wright, for all intents and purposes, is the first superstar athlete I've rooted for who is also a pee...
A month or so back I paid a visit to the Homeland set in Charlotte, North Carolina. I'll be writing more about my time there later this week, but I th...
On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes...
Since SNL announced that it will occasionally be crowd-sourcing host and musical guest suggestions - and since the first Host of the People (if you do...
1. Does anyone actually know which boxers are good, which are great, and which are fake? I'm not sure. The sport is so balkanized that there just doe...
Welcome to the second-annual edition of Grantland's MLB Winter Meetings coverage. We'll be filing frequent updates throughout each day of the meetings...
By the time A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III was announced last September, Charlie Sheen's meltdown had just about completely abated. The...
A few years ago Brian Britt realized he had to make a change. College football season was approaching, and he needed a new way to find out who was bes...
"No exit" isn't what I was muttering to myself during the darkest days of The Walking Dead's dreadful second season (those words can't be printed, eve...
In the two weeks since our last post, a glut of trailers flooded the Internet, some good, some bad, some in between. So in an effort to be as thorough...
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...
With Seth MacFarlane's unlikely debut as Oscars host a scant few months away, the Academy's designated lightning rod is now hitting the campaign trail...
This is it, gang. This is the last Semi-Ignorant Guide of the year. Thank you for joining me on this ride as I spouted half-truths and outright lies, ...
Quick question: Is it safe to hide jermajesties* in the crisper or will they eventually go bad? I have a serious problem trying to hide the many bundl...
A few days before Christmas 2006, having just arrived home in Atlanta for my break between college quarters, I was driving near the Georgia Dome when ...
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. ...
So what was it that made YOU finally lose your mind over the NHL lockout? For me, it was a charity hockey game in Atlantic City meant to raise money f...
Jalen Rose and David Jacoby discuss the Rondo vs. Kris Humphries dust-up and the difference between Ice T and Drake. Also, check out the video! Jalen ...
It's always difficult to remember exactly what's transpired on a series without the help of one of those "Previously On" packages, but just going into...
What's my relationship status with MLS? It's complicated. I'd like to tell you that ever since I became a supporter of the league, when it kicked off ...
There are at least three competing incentives at work in David Stern's pending punishment of the Spurs for resting Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginob...
I'm intimidated and a little nervous. When there is a The Challenge episode like the one on Wednesday night, I feel pressure to offer an appropriate G...
On Thursday, Ghostface Killah stopped by MTV's RapFix Live to plug Wu-Block, the new collaborative effort from him and D-Block's Sheek Louch, and happ...
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...
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...
On a Saturday earlier this month, Tim Howard played 90 minutes and made two saves in Everton's 2-1 victory over Sunderland at Goodison Park. Soon afte...
After a weeklong hiatus caused by the coma-inducing combination of turkey and the Bears' performance in San Francisco, Ephraim and I were back to talk...
You can't blame the marketing folks behind Killing Them Softly — the third movie from Australian writer/director Andrew Dominik, after Chopper a...
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...
There are two ways that a blackjack dealer can ruin your night. I don't mind the first way — if he's grimly dealing himself face cards and black...
So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is here to help you keep track of it all. You'll find takes on moments you might've missed from...
Last week, as Grantland took a much-needed tryptophan nap, American Horror Story: Asylum packed quite a wallop. Before I start recapping this week's e...
The 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot includes 37 players, a few of whom have either admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs, or been found to ...
1992's Universal Soldier, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, was easily the 20th century's greatest movie about American G.I.s who die...
The dividing lines are already starting to blur. Across the league teams are threatening to jump or fall from one tier to the other. But as we've yet ...
Star Scarlett Johansson Is Depressed: "She was totally out of control in Moscow recently" at a champagne brand's promo event. "She was drinking nonst...
Like the marvelous Cloverfield before it, Guillermo Del Toro's monster movie Pacific Rim (out next summer) is now rolling out a viral ad campaign that...
Every week, Hollywood Prospectus editor and masochistically devoted mainstream-radio listener Emily Yoshida will pick an aging Top 40 hit she has hear...
Winter has arrived in England. Everywhere there was football it seemed to be lashing down rain, and perhaps nowhere was the gloom more apparent than i...
Al Horford walks into the Hawks clubhouse, rounding the Ping-Pong table and the flat screen television, minutes after wrapping up a segment for The Ji...
We already told you up top: It's Flight on a school bus. It doesn't star the real Denzel Washington, but this amazing impostor is every bit as compel...
With the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday all crushed and conquered in our wake, we are now deep into the holiday shoppi...
These days, most of the time, there's not much in the way of good news in the music industry. The powers that be — up there in their executive-d...
Coming into the season, the biggest question facing the Milwaukee Bucks was one of fit. Their ceiling was going to be defined by how well their diminu...
Last Wednesday, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich sacked his manager, Roberto Di Matteo, in what many are now calling the Night of the Long, Increasingly...
Had he lived, Jimi Hendrix would've turned 70 this week. But Hendrix, of course, did not live — he 'scused himself to kiss the sky 42 years ago ...
George Hill dropped his second game-winner of the season Tuesday in Los Angeles, sparing the viewing audience five additional minutes of ugly basketba...
The arrival of Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III into the National Football League could not have gone much more swimmingly. In fact, while expectati...
In honor of ESPN Films' Arnold Palmer documentary, we've done some deep digging and discovered several, perhaps less-popular (or even real) drinks tha...
Earlier this week, Angus T. Jones let go a peculiar confession (via an oddly edited interview with a Seventh-day Adventist pastor who's also a YouTube...
Grantland's Rembert Browne missed the 1980s because he's all young and stuff. Every once in a while we make him watch YouTube videos from that era and...
