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October 17, 2013
12-Day NBA Warning: The Most Valuable Gordon

If you gave me 20 minutes to create a player in NBA 2K13, my finished product would basically be Gordon Hayward. He’d be a tall and athletic wing capable of doing a little bit of everything — solid perimeter shooting, posting up against smaller players, making quick reads in motion (with or without the ball) […]
October 17, 2013
Week 7 Fantasy Football Preview: If It Feels Wrong, Do It Anyway

It’s hard to believe, but in a couple days we’ll be halfway through fantasy football’s regular season. Are you livin’ on a prayer? God knows I am. Tom Brady and Ray Rice have sunk my dynasty league team’s ship to an unthinkable 1-5, and unless things turn around this weekend (SPOILER ALERT: they won’t), the […]
October 17, 2013
Men in Blazers: Special Guest Brandon McCarthy

Rog and Michael relive Panama’s heartbreaking loss to the U.S. and cautiously celebrate England’s World Cup qualification. MLB pitcher Brandon McCarthy stops by. Listen to this podcast here. Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
October 17, 2013
The Check-In: The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Are Still Stuck Scooby-Dooing Around the Marvel Universe

When ABC announced the pickup of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., its first co-branded superhero series, the challenge was clear: how to bring a grounded — and less expensive! — point of view to a high-flying cinematic universe. After four weeks, it’s safe to say that S.H.I.E.L.D has managed to accomplish that and only that. The […]
October 17, 2013
Stringer Bell Is Actually Shy As Hell, and He Hasn’t Seen The Wire

Idris Elba is Playboy’s latest 20 Questions target, and it turns out TV’s slickest drug lord of the pre–Gus Fring era, BBC’s baddest badass, and the potential heir to the James Bond franchise … is one bashful dude. “As soon as the spotlight’s on me, I feel awkward,” Elba says. “Idris feels like he doesn’t […]
October 17, 2013
Week 8 College Football Viewing Guide: The Epic Upon the Grandiose

We have arrived, and now we must set out again
October 17, 2013
Weekly Weird Internet: The Serbo-Russian Wolf-Man of Iceland Cometh

This week’s Weird Internet is a meta–Weird Internet, which is the best Weird Internet of all. Once upon a time, in the year of our lord 2009, a man posted on a Russian dating website, seeking 16- to 20-year-old virgins to marry. The ad was accompanied by pictures of the 39-year-old dude in question sitting […]
October 17, 2013
The Triangle NBA All-Stars: Andrea Bargnani and Kenneth Faried

Compiling the Triangle NBA All-Stars offers a way for us to celebrate the players we love way too much. You can see the other entries in the series here. Check out the latest additions, Andrea Bargnani and Kenneth Faried, below. Kenneth Faried Why We Love Him: Kenneth Faried only has one gear. Some people have […]
October 17, 2013
Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Frasier, Eastbound & Down, and Katy Perry

Our original plan had been to just talk about the ’90s NBC sitcom Frasier straight through this week’s hour for no particular reason, but the nostalgia gods granted us the humblest of current-day reasons to do so: this cast reunion in Entertainment Weekly! Seriously, though, we do spend a lot of time on the couch […]
October 17, 2013
Q&A: Matthew McConaughey on Dallas Buyers Club, Transforming for a Role, and Un-Branding Himself

Usually when you interview actors face-to-face, there’s a little game being played: They try to remain calm, cool, and contained while you politely and objectively discuss the movie at hand. But the whole time you’re looking for subtle tells that betray who this person really is. Something to help your line of questioning or just […]

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