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  • Kanye West and Jimmy Kimmel

    Kanye’s Beef With Jimmy Kimmel Ends Tonight, on Your Television

    Recap: Kanye West donated an hour-long interview to the BBC; some were creative enough to call it “cuhraaazy,” while others tagged it “THE FIRST PIECE OF HONEST MEDIA IN YEARS”; Jimmy Kimmel put Yeezus’s words into the mouth of a charming kiddo for a parody; Kanye drove a Maybach made of caps lock keys straight […]

  • Nicklas Lidstrom #5 of the Detroit Red Wings

    The 10 Greatest One-Team NHL Players (Ranked!)

    We’re now a few weeks removed from Mariano Rivera’s final game at Yankee Stadium, which means most sports fans who watched it have had enough time to stop crying while awkwardly insisting that they’re not crying. As a hockey fan, I watched Rivera’s exit while thinking How can I take that wonderful baseball moment and […]

  • Michael Weinstein

    B.S. Report: Bill and Jalen’s NBA Preview, Part 2

    It’s time to check four more teams off of Bill and Jalen’s NBA Preview: nos. 26 through 23. (To watch the videos from this series, click here.) Listen to the podcast here. Subscribe to the B.S. Report on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.

  • Actress Sandra Bullock

    Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: Miley Cyrus, Sandra Bullock, and the Shining Sequel

    This week, Alex and Wesley discuss what’s wrong with Miley Cyrus and what’s right with Sandra Bullock. Plus: Lifetime’s Versace movie and Stephen King’s Shining sequel. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to Grantland Pop Culture on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.

  • Scout School

    Baseball Scout School, Part 2: Rating Beers, Falling in Love With a Cub, and Imagining Another A-Rod

    Ben Lindbergh, editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, is learning how to be a baseball scout. He is enrolled in MLB’s Scout Development Program, where he is getting an education in how to trust his eyes as much as he trusts the numbers. You can read his first dispatch, here. One thing became clear after the first […]

  • Calvin Johnson

    The Quarterback-less NFL MVP Rankings

    For someone who loves both giving awards and pro football, I should love the NFL MVP race. And maybe I would, if it weren’t completely devoid of fun and/or intrigue. Bill Barnwell wrote about this in detail amid last year’s uncharacteristically murky race, but here’s the gist: The NFL MVP is the Best Quarterback Award, […]

  • Gravity

    Underselling the Overview: Gravity and Lowercase-‘s’ Space

    The Futurist is a periodic dispatch from the front lines of tomorrow — a gleefully wigged-out examination of science, science fiction, technology, culture, and all their lunatic fringes. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, we will think the unthinkable, do the undoable, and eff the ineffable. In the mid-1970s, the U.S. State Department prohibited the internal use […]

  • Miami Heat's LeBron James dunks in the first quarter as the Miami Heat faced Oklahoma City Thunder at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, December 25, 2012. (Pedro Portal/El Nuevo Herald/MCT via Getty Images) // Stephen Curry #30 of the

    Extra Points

    A new way to understand the NBA’s best scorers.

  • Tomas Hertl #48, Jason Demers #5 and Brad Stuart #7 of the San Jose Sharks

    We Went There: Teenage Mutant Ninja Hertl’s Four-Goal Night

    Tomas Hertl’s first goal of the evening sent Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist packing. After his second, he stole a happy glance up at his mom and girlfriend. The Sharks were dismantling the Rangers and it was starting to get late when the young Czech rookie scored again. Still, no one at the SAP Center (née […]

  • New Girl

    A Fox in the Peacock House

    How Fox stole built the best night of comedy on TV.

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