His twitter picture says "Beat Dook" with a Carolina blue background. The dude hates duke, therefore is a Wal-Mart UNC fan.

I never said the dude was a bad writer. He's just a tool.

3/2/2012 5:08:59 PM

Hating Duke makes you a UNC fan? He just hates what Duke represents. As anyone should.

3/2/2012 5:31:13 PM

He has always hated Dook he is from Mass he is a Holy Cross Alum. He has that image because Grantland couldn't get press credentials for the game tomorrow

3/2/2012 8:44:25 PM

HCH: wtf is simmons doing w/ his top button undone, he looks so sloppy!

tdub: dude he isnt wearing a tie

HCH: oh. well. oh. but still he should be wearing a tie. also he is a UNC fan so fuck him!

tdub: no, he isnt a unc fan. in fact he doesnt even pay general attn to college sports

HCH: oh. but he hates duke. and he seems to be backing UNC this weekend, therefore fuck him



ITT haters not letting the facts get in the way of hating

3/2/2012 9:48:29 PM

Lawyered.

He's still a tool

3/2/2012 9:59:08 PM

it's not as if he's dickie v... he's pretty easy to ignore if you hate him so much.

3/2/2012 10:00:37 PM

Quote :

"he doesn't give a shit about college sports. "

he cares about college sports once a year when it's tournament time and/or it looks like Holy Cross might make the tourney

3/2/2012 11:00:33 PM

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7651790/a-los-angeles-lakers-rumor-spurs-writer-look-back-rasheed-wallace-nba-career

this is quite possibly the dumbest thing i've ever read.

3/7/2012 6:54:11 AM

Quote :

"Smith, the first coach at a major Southern university to recruit and play a black player, promptly stuck Charlie Scott and all his offensive firepower within the confines of the Four Corner offense."

Huh? Is that even true? Everything I can find just says Scott was the first black scholarship player at UNC.

Looks like its false. Seems a few schools beat him to the punch by a year...

Quote :

"But he was not the first African-American to play in the league. Nor was he the second, or even the third. Maryland's Julius (Pete) Johnson and Duke's Claiborne both played varsity basketball in 1966-67, a year ahead of Scott."

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/crossing-the-line/Content?oid=1191646

And Claiborne appears to have been recruited to some degree...

Quote :

"Newman watched slender, 6-2 Claudius Claiborne in action, and immediately phoned Duke assistant Chuck Daly, a particular friend. “Chuck is a clothes horse, that’s how we got to know each other,” Newman recalled. Daly came to Danville and watched Claiborne play. “Chuck looked at him for about 60 seconds, and said, ‘He could be our sixth man.’ ”"

http://myblogdevils.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/22/3538516.html

[Edited on March 7, 2012 at 8:23 AM. Reason : research]

3/7/2012 8:09:09 AM

^^excellent well thought out critique

^well maryland isn't a southern university, and duke barely is

3/7/2012 9:05:41 AM

I think Simmons is okay. I like reading his NBA articles, but not much else. My main complaint about him is his David Wright voice.




[Edited on March 7, 2012 at 9:49 AM. Reason : sd]

3/7/2012 9:49:23 AM

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7681328/top-five-march-madness-predictions

Quote :

"3. The Zebra Stampede There are three kinds of game officials in college basketball. There are the professional incompetents, the egomaniacal showboats, and the overworked immortals. (I swear that Ed Hightower is the only referee still alive who was heckled by James Naismith when the latter was coaching at Kansas.) These categories are not mutually exclusive. There are professional incompetents who are also egomaniacs. There are showboats who work 100 games a year. And then, of course, there's Karl Hess. The ACC tournament just past is a perfect precursor to the fact that some team's One Shining Moment is going to be ruined by incompetence, egomania, overwork, or some combination of the three. There was the ludicrous no-call on what would prove to be the winning basket for North Carolina over N.C. State. But even worse, and little remarked upon, was the towering choke at the very end of the other semifinal between Duke and Florida State. The latter held a three-point lead with barely over a second left, and the FSU player inbounding the ball threw it up for grabs at midcourt, gambling that the ensuing scramble would eat up the clock. The scramble ensued, and Duke's Seth Curry wound up with the ball, whereupon he took at least three steps with the ball literally under one arm before launching a shot that damned near tied the game. He looked like Ray Rice breaking the containment on a sweep. And he did this right in front of the referee. Had the shot fallen, as it nearly did, this would now be another Shining Moment, even though the referee clearly choked on one of the most obvious walks in the history of the game. It will happen again in the tournament. And more than once."

3/13/2012 10:51:11 PM

He did pick the Patriots to go to the Superbowl, so the guy's alright in my book... he also write a ridiculous amount of funny/satirical blogs leading up to the Superbowl.

3/13/2012 10:55:59 PM

Quote :

"I slink into the Beacon at 7:20 p.m. The first thing I see is a huge poster promoting a memoir from Creed vocalist Scott Stapp. The book is titled Sinner's Creed: The True Story of Fame, Grace, and Redemption as Only Scott Stapp Can Tell It. The interior theater doors don't open until 7:30, so people are milling around the lobby, drinking beers and frozen margaritas. Obviously, this is an older, balding crowd; one guy has brought his own homemade popcorn in a cylindrical Tupperware container, which is something you probably wouldn't see at a Japandroids show. I'm shocked by the distance some of these people have traveled to see this concert. One couple (George and Stacey Wilson-Howell) flew in from Dubai, a 15-hour flight. "Just a flick of his sweat," Stacey tells me. "That's all I want. Just a flick of Scott Stapp's sweat." This sentiment symbolizes his fame, her grace, and my redemption (as only Scott Stapp can tell it)."

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7846322/taking-concert-doubleheader-creed-nickelback-world-most-hated-bands

4/24/2012 4:09:18 PM

^ I tried to read that article. But it was far too long of a description to reach the point that they both still suck

4/24/2012 11:37:55 PM

and it's thought processes like that one that got those bands to where they are today

4/25/2012 12:06:57 AM

The whole "you gotta respect them cuz they made it big" argument for bands like these is real fucking tiresome. Just because they're marketable doesn't mean their music isn't still ass crumb casserole.

4/25/2012 3:03:58 AM

Quote :

"It's hard to get inside the existential paradox of Kroeger's life on tour: Every day, he gives interviews to journalists and radio DJs who directly ask him why no one likes his band. Every night, he plays music to thousands of enraptured superfans, many of whom love him with a ferocity that's probably unhealthy. Every concert ends with a standing ovation; if he feels motivated, he spends the remainder of the night partying with forgettable strangers who will remember him for the rest of their lives. Eventually, Kroeger falls asleep. And then he wakes up in a beautiful hotel room, only to read new articles about how everyone in North America hates his band. There is not one part of his life that's real."

thanks for the link, Ernie. fun read.

4/25/2012 9:26:04 AM

Quote :

"The group's weakness is their obsession with transposable power ballads, most of which sound like what would happen if Bob Rock helped Coldplay write a really loud song for Garth Brooks"

lol

but yeah I don't care for Nickelback at all. I do enjoy Creed though, all their songs are the same, but I like that song.

4/25/2012 11:57:45 AM

This picture really bums me out

5/16/2012 11:52:41 AM

Good to see he borrowed Brad Wesley's hat from Roadhouse.

5/16/2012 12:41:43 PM

^^ ha, I was just there and saw him and Dick Butkus.

5/16/2012 1:49:07 PM

RAM JAM

5/16/2012 3:13:02 PM

i'm in tears laughing at simmons and jack o talk about hockey strategy.

5/30/2012 3:37:28 AM

that Simmons-Gladwell piece is epic

absolutely loved every bit of it

6/7/2012 1:23:57 PM

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8041110/so-far-bryce-harper-living-ridiculous-hype

Reminds me of



Francoeur's ridiculous line after 168 PA (same as Harper): .340/.375/.642, 11 HR
Harper: .295/.381/.527, 6 HR

6/12/2012 11:12:59 AM

JAKE

6/12/2012 11:36:38 AM

holy

fuck

10/10 A+++++ would read again

7/25/2012 12:34:14 AM

some good stuff in there. for instance:

"How do you defend pick n roll? Asking for a friend not m..."

and blake griffin's status being his top 10 dunks.

7/25/2012 12:42:32 AM

for whatever reason, quick-cuts in comedy absolutely slay me, so seeing certain subject lines cut off is making me lol all over the place

[Edited on July 25, 2012 at 12:54 AM. Reason : and even though it's low-hanging fruit, the Metta World Peace email is absolutely perfect]

7/25/2012 12:53:12 AM

the barkley one is really good. "YOU GUYS..."

7/25/2012 1:36:18 AM

nothing worse than horrible amateur comedians

7/25/2012 11:42:05 AM

i found it contrived.

well contrived obviously. but like. the jokes were low hanging fruit.

[Edited on July 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM. Reason : .]

7/25/2012 11:50:17 AM

this is really, really good:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8225426/dr-jack-breakdown-swimming-vs-gymnastics

8/2/2012 2:42:06 PM

i love that they're all flagged important....except for Tyler Perry

8/3/2012 12:56:31 PM

their Olympic Viewing Guide has helped a bunch this past week

8/3/2012 1:25:18 PM

i turned on the bs report today hoping so hard that it wasn't jacoby again. i have been rewarded greatly.

8/3/2012 8:08:27 PM

I think I'm the only person on the planet that genuinely likes Jacoby

8/3/2012 8:34:41 PM

Is Jacoby famous or just one of his friends? I get everyone but Klosterman and Matthew Berry confused.

8/3/2012 8:39:46 PM

one of his friends who used to be a producer on Sportsnation

I'm pretty sure Simmons has such a crush on him that he got him to move out to LA just to be Grantlands podcast producer/pickup basketball teammate

8/3/2012 8:44:13 PM

i think jacoby is good w/ jalen rose, where his thing is he asks him the types of questions that i want him to ask and then just lets him talk and agrees w/ whatever he says.

but i did not enjoy him at all kevin wildes, and i normally enjoy kevin wildes.

i also don't care at all about reality tv, so half of everything he says is annoying right off the bat.

8/4/2012 4:54:11 PM

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8396450/aroldis-chapman-florida-marlins

It is lame that this dude is sucking Chapman so hard while failing to mention that Kimbrel has better numbers across the board.

9/20/2012 8:37:05 AM

troll post right?

9/20/2012 9:37:02 AM

Objectively speaking, to discuss Chapman's "historic" season when he's 1. the second-best reliever in the NL and 2. not even pitching now seems sort of disingenuous.

9/20/2012 10:31:05 AM

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8603746/tim-tebow-lost-emails

11/7/2012 9:40:16 PM

a pretty cheap medium, the fake gmail inbox... but some of those are good.

namely "for reals, what's a zone blitz?"

11/7/2012 11:40:22 PM

the highlight is the email to Goodell about cursing and Goodell's response

11/8/2012 1:39:59 PM

"Do you love benches?"

The beauty of google's targeted ads

11/8/2012 1:53:53 PM

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8683633/the-latest-offering-new-30-30-documentary-series

11/28/2012 3:04:25 PM

^awesome, I love a good Arnold Palmer

11/28/2012 3:39:40 PM