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April 30, 2015
TV Burning Questions Answered: Worst TV Bosses, Silliest Show Names, and More!

The return of the Grantland television mailbag.
February 12, 2015
Frame Jobs

What we can learn about manipulating the strike zone from all-world receiver Brad Ausmus, an elite catching prospect, and Dennis Eckersley, the beneficiary of, ahem, a widened target.
September 25, 2014
MLB Playoff Myths: Beware the Misleading Narratives!

While sabermetrics hasn’t supplied a clear and correct answer to the question of what wins in the playoffs, it has rejected several wrong ones. Despite being debunked, though, some of those suspect explanations resurface every season, which makes the last week of September the perfect time for a pre-playoff PSA. Even if you don’t have a team in the race, you can amuse yourself for the next several weeks by engaging in playoff-myth bingo!
March 13, 2013
YouTube HOF: TV’s Greatest ‘Oh S—!’ Moments

Something happened in the most recent episode of The Americans. Spoiler: Phillip wore a wig. Then something else happened. It was a shocking moment, one that not only signaled a raising of stakes in the series’ story, but a raising of game by the creative forces behind it. In one scene, The Americans made the […]
January 23, 2013
Men in Black: The Show?

All that and more in the monthly Grantland TV mailbag.
October 24, 2011
When Zombies Attack!

Behind our national obsession with the walking dead.