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Last November, Bryan Curtis wrote this piece on Marv Albert for Grantland:...
Mark Grant Likes To Crush Dodger Dogs, Dick Enberg Is A Sly Perv
Two women wearing hot dog hats caught the lens of the Fox Sports San Diego camera during the fifth inning of the Yasiel Puig Show and why not? Ladies wearing phalluses Dodger Dogs on their heads at a baseball game is as American as apple pie. ...
Trope-Recycling Bill Simmons Has Bill Simmons Syndrome
Bill Simmons this week mused on the fate of Dwight Howard, who appears to be the NBA's equivalent of plutonium: a potential world-beater but perilously radioactive. To characterize the gap between Perceived Dwight Howard and Actual Dwight Howard, the founder of Grantland and ESPN spittling-head did ...
Kevin Durant's Tattoo Might Not Have A Misspelled Word In It After All
Yesterday, we drew your attention to what looked like a misspelled word in Kevin Durant's massive back tattoo. The photo we shared seemed to offer incontrovertible evidence that someone had tattooed the word "mautre" instead of "mature" on KD's back. But now we have another picture of the tattoo, an...
Kevin Durant's Back Tattoo Has A Misspelled Word In It
Kevin Durant finally got around to finishing the massive back tattoo that he's been adding to over the years, and he posted a picture of a the finished product to his Instagram page. Impressive! But, um, that's not how you spell "mature."...
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Few people, if any, have written better stories—funny and smart—about college football than Dan Jenkins. Last fall, Michael MacCambridge was good enough to make Jenkins' 1963 Sports Illustrated piece, "The Disciples of St. Darrell on a Wild Weekend" part of his excellent Director's Cut series for Gr...
Kevin Durant Donated $1 Million To Red Cross For Tornado Relief
Earlier today, word got out that Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant had donated $1 million to the United States Red Cross in the wake of yesterday's tornado, which leveled entire neighborhoods and killed at least two dozen in the OKC suburb of Moore, Oklahoma....
The Grizzlies Are About To Grizz Past The OKC Kevin Durants
Oklahoma City is looking suspiciously like a team that is going to lose a second-round series. Kevin Durant posted 25 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals, while Serge Ibaka chipped in 13 points, 10 boards and 4 blocks. And still Memphis ground out an 87-81 win for a 2-1 series lead on an aft...
Now Vijay Singh Is Suing The PGA Tour Because Of Deer Antler Spray
Deer antler spray may not be effective at delivering a growth hormone, but it does keep giving strength to dumb stories....
What Does Grant Hill Think Of Derrick Rose's Critics?
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
Kevin Durant's Crossover And Slam: Completely Unfair
Why can a 6-foot-11 guy with unlimited shooting range also dance by his opponent with a filthy crossover at the top of the key before gliding into the paint for a monster dunk? Because, as we've said before, Kevin Durant is more of a walking cheat code than he is a basketball player. That's really ...
We're About To Find Out Just How Great Kevin Durant Can Be
If there's one silver lining for basketball fans to extract from Russell Westbrook's season-ending knee injury, it's that we now have the opportunity to see Kevin Durant attempt to become something he's never had to be before: a transcendent superstar trying to singlehandedly pull his team through ...
Watch Kevin Durant's Game-Winning Shot With 11.1 Seconds Left
With 11.1 seconds left, Kevin Durant came up with a long two to put the Oklahoma City Thunder up by one point over the Memphis Grizzlies, because he is Kevin Durant and does those kind of things....
LeBron's Fourth MVP Is Pushing Him Into Ludicrous Territory
Reports are swarming that LeBron James will be named the NBA’s MVP for the fourth time in the past five seasons. Somehow this makes Derrick Rose’s 2011 MVP — the only blemish in that stretch for LeBron — seem all the more impressive, if all the more anomalous. Only four other players (Kareem Abdul-J...
Kevin Durant Finds That Life Without Russell Westbrook Isn't Much Fun
Comebacks from a 3-0 deficit have been done in hockey, and in baseball, but never in the NBA. It makes sense; those first two sports put an inordinate amount of weight on one person, a goaltender or a pitcher. But basketball is ostensibly the same starting five every night—except when it's not. Hous...
Deer Antler Spray Panic: Vijay Singh Is Dumb, But He's Not A Doper
Vijay Singh admitted to using deer antler spray, a "supplement" containing the banned substance IGF-1. But deer antler spray is so ineffective at delivering IGF-1 that the PGA tour has decided not to punish him. This is almost more embarrassing for Singh: he may not be suspended, but he did get scam...
Carlos Delfino Dunks All Over Kevin Durant
This has got to be the highlight of Carlos Delfino's career, right? I mean, I just spent two minutes and thirty-five seconds watching a Carlos Delfino mixtape on YouTube, and I didn't see anything that even came close to being as cool as picking Kevin Martin's pocket, streaking down the court, and ...
Kevin Durant Blew By Four Houston Defenders For A Vicious Dunk
As powerful and graceful as this dunk was, Serge Ibaka's last second layup/tip-in attempt was just goofily anemic. The Rockets win 105-103 and keep the series alive at 3-1....