On Christmas Day, in the year of our Lord 2012, Tom Hooper's film adaptation of the Broadway musical Les Miserables arrives in cinemas across the nati...
For Eli Manning, the year 2012 has gone pretty much like so many Giants games — and even seasons — have through the years. You've got your...
The fantasy football season isn't quite over, but as of this week, the Fantasy Island competition is. After 16 weeks and a very tight race, we're plea...
Even the harshest critics of the return Orlando got in the Dwight Howard deal had to concede this: The Magic's own horrid play would land them at leas...
With Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's gone back-to-back on the "messy, brilliant revenge-fantasies where the operative w...
Is Frank from The Challenge a heartless woman abuser? Will a Beverly Hills Housewife save her marriage with squat thrusts and lamb fetus injections? A...
It's been a wonderful season so far in the NBA. From a scoring perspective we are seeing some familiar patterns, but also witnessing some interesting ...
Kevin Wildes pitches Bill Simmons a network about pizza — and only pizza — called Slice TV. The two then develop programming for the netwo...
It was the year a man became very famous for possessing an unshakable belief in math and basic reasoning skills. This probably says less about Nate Si...
If you're reading this, the end of the world did not take place and the Mayans will forever be seen as crap-filled liars. Let's hope that's the case. ...
Australia's Rebel Wilson first broke into American consciousness in Bridsemaids — via one fell "cascade of frozen peas on festering back tattoo"...
It was a year that provided plenty of personalities, story lines, and moments, but the question is, which of those moments got their due and which did...
It's all over now: the Jersey Shore juggernaut has come to an end. Who would have thought, three years ago, that phrases like "GTL" and "T-shirt time"...
A couple of weeks ago we posted the ESPN Films 30 for 30 short The Arnold Palmer, which took a quirky look at the invention and evolution of the legen...
2012 has been a remarkable year for testing the limits of trailers, with studios often oversaturating the market with four or five previews before a f...
With 61 assists in just six games since taking over for injured starter Kyle Lowry, Jose Calderon has reminded us all that he is one of the NBA's most...
"6:50 a.m. in Helsinki, Finland and I'm about to take my Gov30 final #sickjoke," tweets a 19-year-old Harvard kid as I'm eating my dinner out here in ...
After years of industry chatter, production rumors, and not an inconsequential amount of sexual innuendo, the Anchorman sequel is up and running. It's...
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...
2012 was a good year for all kinds of people (e.g., Jeremy Lin, Christian Marclay, Lena Dunham, R.A. Dickey, Barack Obama, Trinidad James ...). But in...
Watching back through this week's games, I did the best I could to single out a few guys whose performances I hadn't yet mentioned this season. Calais...
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...
For the final Hollywood Prospectus Podcast of the year, Chris Ryan and I, like generations of anthropomorphic snacks before us, headed to the cinema. ...
With Ephraim back in the studio this week, we talked Aldon Smith v. Von Miller, the tricks to keeping warm in cold-weather games, and what it's like t...
The modern NFL is a game of matchups. Since the salary cap and the spread of strategic concepts throughout the league prevent a team from dominating t...
As THR points out, Bradley Whitford is appearing in an upcoming episode of Matthew Perry's Go On — which, considering the, uh, less than pristin...
I was just wondering the other day how Miami Marlins fans were taking the Great American Baseball Fire-Sale of 2012. Maybe they were all like, "It's c...
From Kirstie Alley oversharing about conspiring with George Wendt to snap a picture of Ted Danson's dick during the Cheers years to the revelation tha...
Yesterday afternoon, Michael Bay debuted the trailer for Pain and Gain, his first non-Transformers movie since 2005, inspiring an internal Grantland e...
Bill Simmons talks to Zach Lowe on Smart Guy Wednesday about the NBA and then calls up basketball gambler Haralabos Voulgaris to discuss trends he's n...
For the most part, NBA head coaches tend to like predictability. Given the complexity of their schemes, there's a certain comfort in knowing where pla...
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...
For Steven Jackson, everything about Sunday afternoon was fitting. With 1:47 left in the third quarter, and with his team trailing Minnesota 33-7, Jac...
Splitsider today points our attention to a neat little bit of promo: As an early plug for the mega-size 2013 return of Arrested Development, Netflix h...
As the Grantland staff looks back this week on the highlights of the year in music, TV, film, and sports, we would obviously be remiss if we left out ...
Let's call it an off week for the English Premier League. Liverpool fans and Ryan Shawcross's cheekbone may not agree, but this was a week in which th...
Ah, of course. Flacco's Favorite. Granted, this is from a couple of years ago, and I wouldn't necessarily like all the choices I made in 2010 used aga...
It seems only fitting that as the first year of the Hollywood Prospectus podcast comes to a close, Chris Ryan and I would spend some time discussing o...
Can we talk about the cat? We have to talk about the cat. There is no way around the cat. Mercy Kardashian — a white teacup Persian gifted to Ki...
The Jazz look to be settling in as a solid bottom-four playoff seed in the Western Conference, though with Golden State off to a surprising 17-8 start...
Homeland showrunner Alex Gansa responds to criticism about the show's second season, including the pacemaker, the BlackBerry with Skype, and how Brody...
Now is right around the time when NFL teams are supposed to be getting hot for the postseason. If there's any narrative about the postseason taken mor...
Back in January of 2009, my friend Rick traveled to Las Vegas with some business associates to attend UFC 94. Living in San Francisco, just a short fl...
It's a Lakers benchwarmer celebrating! I can't tell who that is, but I'm pretty sure that's Robert Sacre yanking him down. Any guesses, Lakers fans? [...
Congrats, reader, on having a productive, successful 2012. I am very proud of you. In honor of all of your accomplishments, here is rapper 2 Chainz's ...
Nothing says Christmas like slaves and whores! Anne Hathaway and Samuel L. Jackson enter the ring for a very NSFW Sad-Off over cocoa and gingerbread w...
My first experience with live college basketball came on February 12, 1994, when my dad and I made the three-hour trip from the Adirondack Mountains t...
We're here: Week 16. For those of you lucky enough to still be around, there is boundless glory to be won. To help with the preparation during fantasy...
On February 12, 2012, I happened to watched two events in the span of an hour that wound up epitomizing my year in pop music. I had met up with some f...
Bill Simmons called the NFL Network's Mike Lombardi to break down Week 15, discuss the playoff picture, and address rumors about Mr. Lombardi's profes...
Erwin Schrödinger's in town, so we meet at Ye Rustic on Thursday night. The Bengals are playing the Eagles, and for some reason this historic con...
Do you love Sosa? Have you been thinking about you? Are you concerned we might die young? Have we got a podcast for you! Live from Grantland's Los Ang...
With all the rookie quarterbacks in the NFL BQBL this year, you'd think that there would be more fresh faces on the BQBL Summer Jam Screen. Aside from...
I was standing outside of Madison Square Garden, waiting for my friend, when a middle-aged Asian American man in a fancy suit walked by me and smiled....
Jordan Roseman, a.k.a. DJ Earworm, posted his first mash-up of Billboard's Top 25 songs on YouTube in 2007, in what was at the time a one-off experime...
Since 2007, fans of The Sopranos have debated the final scene of the HBO series's final episode, Made in America. Some of us have come to terms with...
NFL teams don't often get the chance to rebuild on their own terms. In most cases, they're the last people to find out that it's time. A team that can...
It wasn't long after PTI’s launch in 2001 that Notre Dame fired football coach Bob Davie. Eleven years later, the Irish are finally back on top,...
There is a song called "Gangnam Style" by a human named Psy and it's the worst song of 2012. It is very popular, with its official video tallying more...
The Red Sox agreed to a one-year, $9.5 million contract with shortstop Stephen Drew, giving all-glove/no-bat prospect Jose Iglesias another year of se...
We think we have already established, at least beyond the Internet-accepted standard of "a supercut-supported reasonable doubt," that Claire Danes is ...
You thought you had been adequately enticed by the prospect of J.J. Abrams's Star Trek sequel by its first trailer? You thought wrong! Above: the teas...
On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes...
First things first — you might notice there's been a bit of re-branding in these parts. I've been using "epiphanies" as a catch-all term for the...
I love Martin Short, but I was still surprised at how good this weekend's episode of SNL was. This season has been spotty to say the least, and consid...
Saturday has come and gone, meaning the majority of free agents who signed with new teams over the summer are now trade-eligible. Last week, Grantland...
The Hobbit wasn't quite the only gig in town this weekend, but it sure felt like it. (Note the first seven lines on Fandango's 'Now Playing' list: The...
My favorite thing about my visit to the Homeland writers' office this past week wasn't the character headshots high up on the wall or the tantalizing ...
