language

Baseball is America’s national pastime, but the use of racially coded language when referring to players is not a…

Buck up, elite runners! You are no longer in any danger of being called a loser—in an official capacity, at least.

This past December, the New York Times ran a perfectly anodyne post promoting a new episode of The Daily, its…

Alarming news from the north.

I have never been a violent person, at least not instinctively. Whenever I was teased as a child—I struggled to read…

[Adjective]-ass [noun]. It’s a construction equally dear to elite-ass athletes and cool-ass bloggers—and even a few…

Often, when I want to express emphasis I write “soo” instead of “so.” And even if no one else thinks this should be…

Here is a dumb thing!

This tweet, from the Palm Beach Post's Andrew Abramson, who spoke with some NFL refs about the new emphasis on…

This June, Joshua Katz of NC State put together some beautiful dialect maps of the United States based on data from…

The greatest word in baseball is "horseshit." This isn't a matter of opinion, it's a scientific fact. From Kevin…

Gadsden (N.M.) High School is in a district where 97 percent of the students are Hispanic, so members of the…

I was hanging out with a friend yesterday, and at some point during our conversation, we both agreed that the…

Grantland has now been live for almost 30 hours, which means that any impressions of the content of the site are…