this is long, but it's really great:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8820063/the-intertwined-careers-rasheed-wallace-jerry-stackhouse

1/10/2013 2:36:39 PM

Quote :

" "@TobaccoRdBlues: Greatest timeout in college basketball is the Caissons TO at NC State. Not Indiana.""

Also I really enjoy bill Barnwell's columns

1/15/2013 10:51:17 PM

not gonna lie, I totally had to google Caissons

1/15/2013 11:00:27 PM

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8854036/malcolm-gladwell-chuck-klosterman-manti-teo

two ridiculously intelligent dudes discussing the Te'o story

it is excellent

1/17/2013 4:53:34 PM

haha ok

1/17/2013 5:02:27 PM

not sports related, but Rembert Browne's bracket of the 64 greatest Chappelle's Show sketches fucking rules

1/22/2013 4:33:06 PM

you mean this bracket

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8847357/a-battle-best-chappelle-show-sketch-ever

[Edited on January 22, 2013 at 4:54 PM. Reason : bracket]

1/22/2013 4:54:03 PM

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8989379/nc-state-basketball-david-thompson-knee-injuries-north-carolina

had no idea this was coming

not gonna lie, heart skipped a beat seeing our halfcourt as their headline pic

[Edited on February 26, 2013 at 2:18 PM. Reason : welp. that wasn't anything special. at all.]

2/26/2013 2:10:50 PM

that story was really...random.

2/26/2013 2:18:41 PM

That guy goes too hard on the aberrant pop culture references

2/26/2013 2:20:25 PM

stupidly expected an in-depth look into our fanbase

2/26/2013 2:25:57 PM

disjointed. and random. ha.

2/26/2013 3:29:50 PM

great writing (sarcasm)... 10 minutes I now can't get back

2/26/2013 5:45:44 PM

Read the article earlier...thought I'd give it some time to see if I would understand anything the writer put forth....nope. that was a terribly written, disjointed article- the main plot still yet tbd. I am now dumber.

2/26/2013 5:53:29 PM

And in conclusion, I peed on a governor. The end.

2/26/2013 6:59:43 PM

Quote :

"great writing (sarcasm)"

2/26/2013 10:20:13 PM

mike tyson on the bs report today.

2/28/2013 5:02:21 PM

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9038798/a-tournament-determine-most-hated-college-basketball-players-last-30-years

This is pretty good, has an entire "region" for Dook players.

No Steve Blake though -1 Crediability

3/11/2013 9:42:02 AM

did i miss something regarding marcus williams?

3/11/2013 11:16:30 AM

I don't know why they get tom bissel to write about vide games when clearly he hates video games.

9/25/2013 4:35:50 PM

"In the old days, Disney would have bought the rights to the Jim Valvano/Wolfpack story and turned it into a forgettable "based on a true story" movie starring Keanu Reeves as Jimmy V. In 2013, it's smarter to give that concept to an accomplished filmmaker like Jon Hock and make the real Jimmy V its star."

10/1/2013 12:25:09 PM

Roger Goodell emails:


[Edited on January 16, 2014 at 2:15 PM. Reason : 1]

1/16/2014 2:14:40 PM

Dandierdorf@earthlink.net

lolol

1/16/2014 2:37:14 PM

hah my fucking mom forwards terrible emails from an earthlink account

You win nerds

1/16/2014 2:55:52 PM

Lol at Rivers

1/16/2014 6:34:50 PM

i like Luck's

1/16/2014 6:41:06 PM

Grantland article seen as responsible for suicide

http://grantland.com/features/what-grantland-got-wrong/

1/20/2014 7:21:25 PM

that's a bit of a stretch...

1/20/2014 8:27:50 PM

Ya prob true after reading everything. Sad stuff though

1/20/2014 8:52:37 PM

I'm not totally sure I remembered this, but Dominique Wilkins talks about signing a LOI to play for State as a senior in high school on the latest BS Report

that would have been pretty cool

1/23/2014 11:47:28 AM

I remember that coming up back when Damien Wilkins was being recruited.

1/23/2014 1:19:52 PM

yeah, the more I've thought about it, the more I've remembered

listening to it right before falling asleep probably had the most to do with me forgetting about it. got a definite "whoa" when he said it during the interview, though

[Edited on January 23, 2014 at 1:25 PM. Reason : he also says that NC is by far the best basketball state]

1/23/2014 1:24:17 PM

There's some funny stuff in here:
http://grantland.com/features/shane-ryan-college-basketball-grantland-dictionary/

Quote :

"pivot foot (n.) — the foot on which a player is allowed to turn in a circle without being called for a travel. UNC alum Tyler Hansbrough still holds the NCAA record for pivot feet, with four."

Quote :

"double dribble (n.) — violation in which a player dribbles the ball with two hands at the same time or dribbles, stops dribbling, and dribbles again. Since 2000, 94 percent of all NCAA double-dribbling violations have been committed by a member of the Plumlee family."

Quote :

"kicking (n.) — violation called when a player intentionally strikes the ball with his or her foot. Also a popular major among UNC basketball players."

Quote :

"NBA (n.) — professional league where 95 percent of Kentucky recruits think they’re going out of high school, due to Wildcats coach John Calipari’s shifty tongue, devilish charm, and elaborate, mobile sets."

Quote :

"technical foul (n.) — foul called when somebody complains because a referee is “technically” incompetent. (See also: Hess, Karl.)"

3/18/2014 10:04:54 AM

goddamn I love me some Grantland

Quote :

"As for the “nobody believes in us” teams, I’m going with Wichita State, North Carolina State, and Stephen F. Austin. Wichita State is obvious, since merely mentioning the school somehow summons idiots all over America to offer irrelevant and flawed opinions. Meanwhile, North Carolina State really shouldn’t have made the tournament at all, it had to win a play-in game, and it has the ACC Player of the Year in T.J. Warren. I’d be willing to bet the phrase “nobody believes in us” was said by Mark Gottfried in his pregame speech last night almost as much as the phrase “I got this” was said by Warren throughout the game. That’s a dangerous combination. And Stephen F. Austin is a perfect match, too. It hits all the important checkpoints – mid-major, overshadowed accomplishment (28-game winning streak takes a backseat to Wichita State), and it shares a name with Stone Cold Steve Austin. I mean, just think about VCU (Vince McMahon) and UCLA (The Rock) casually talking in the ring about how one of them is headed to the Sweet 16, when all of a sudden the glass shatters, Stone Cold Stephen F. Austin pulls up to the ring in a beer truck, and UCLA and VCU get doused with Coors Light. If the school is anything like the wrestler, the Lumberjacks will spend the next few weeks kicking ass and taking names. "

3/19/2014 12:54:03 PM

http://grantland.com/features/nba-court-design-power-rankings/

NBA Court Design rankings

9/9/2014 8:02:27 PM

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2210190-espn-suspends-bill-simmons-for-comments-made-about-roger-goodell?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cnn-sports-bin&hpt=hp_bn15

beat your wife, two weeks suspension. badmouth the guy that let a wife beater slide on a two weeks suspension, get a three weeks suspension. nice to see the sports world has such a great handle on things.

9/25/2014 10:57:03 AM

I mean...he wasn't really suspended because of what he said about Goodell. It was more him daring ESPN to do it.

Obviously those fucks on First Take say far worse and more offensive things than Simmons. It's not about what he said...it's him daring ESPN.

[Edited on September 25, 2014 at 11:13 AM. Reason : not that the suspension wasn't stupid.]

9/25/2014 11:12:43 AM

three weeks?? that's way too huge of a chunk of the cousin sal podcasts of the year. quit espn mane.

9/25/2014 10:11:26 PM

too bad it didn't happen during NBA season so we wouldn't have to deal with him on TV

9/25/2014 10:14:21 PM

http://espn.go.com/blog/ombudsman/post/_/id/462/strengths-weaknesses-and-suspensions

9/26/2014 7:57:15 AM

not much out there that makes me laugh harder than #HotSportsTakes

just the best

10/14/2014 1:12:10 PM

every week i want to like the grantland nfl podcast, just b/c it's there. but those guys are such fucking tools i can't stand it. you'd think there's not one single good player in the league the way they talk.

11/21/2014 1:04:40 PM

too many good-to-great podcasts out there to listen to

I am a fan of everything they write, but I don't need to hear their voices on a regular basis

11/21/2014 1:11:34 PM

adios Simmons

5/8/2015 2:56:16 PM

good riddance

5/8/2015 3:24:01 PM

hope he goes the VC route. would love to hear him with no filter.

ESPN fucked up. they cast their lot with domestic abuse enablers like SAS, bigots and racists like bayless and cowherd, and the general fuckery that has become their non-OTL programming.

5/8/2015 11:08:10 PM

Good riddance to ESPN

5/9/2015 4:00:04 AM

pour some PBR or Tecate out for the homey

5/9/2015 7:51:52 AM

PBR or Tecate? what?

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/05/inside-shocking-abrupt-divorce-bill-simmons-and-espn

5/9/2015 6:47:11 PM

If you want to see the creepiest thing a sports personality can do, watch Cowherd during his Chris Pratt interview for Moneyball.

5/9/2015 7:23:12 PM