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Journal Entry
on December 27, 2011
I've previously written with disdain about sports announcers who wear their team's colors on their sleeves but I've subsequently come to understand that homers have their place.
Boston Bruins announcer Jack Edwards After listening to this excellent Grantland.com podcast with Boston Bruins announ ...
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Journal Entry
on April 27, 2014
Anyone who writes for a living or seriously for pleasure can sympathize with the accompanying challenges: inspiration, effectively creating your message and how readers interpret that work.
And anyone who has ever read the wildly diverse work of Chuck Klosterman can probably guess he experiences ...
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Journal Entry
on June 13, 2012
I wrote awhile back about Grantland , the superb sports and pop culture website operated by Bill Simmons and funded by his bosses at ESPN. The site has grown into a lively alternative to more traditional sports brands (S.I., even ESPN) but is now finding success by going traditional -- to print.
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Journal Entry
on July 17, 2011
The design of Grantland is clean and spare It's been about a month since the launch of " Grantland ," a new ESPN digital magazine fronted by columnist Bill Simmons .
"Grantland" is a homage to legendary early 20th century sportswriter Grantland Rice and the site's spare design harkens back to sim ...
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Journal Entry
on October 9, 2011
I wrote a few months ago about ESPN's new digital magazine Grantland and its commitment to stray beyond its foundation in sports.
The latest evidence of that is a fantastic hourlong podcast on the early history of MTV hosted by gonzo journalist Chuck Klosterman (author of one of my favorite music ...
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Journal Entry Follow-Up
on October 31, 2015
Many people in the media are still in shock over Friday's sudden announcement that ESPN was shuttering Grantland.com immediately.
As an author of complimentary pieces on Grantland and owner of every single copy of Grantland Quarterly — and the rare Grantland book on Detroit sports — I ...
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Journal Entry
on July 31, 2012
I'm a regular listener of Grantland.com's "Hollywood Prospectus" podcast , so I wasn't too surprised when hosts Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan busted out a Britpop reference when discussing the London Olympics.
Only, in typically creative Grantland fashion, Greenwald and Ryan -- using the news tha ...
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Journal Entry
on February 9, 2015
1. Citra -- Lottery winner!
My Citra lottery win Kern River Brewing recently released a fresh batch of Citra, a Double IPA that has earned a Gold Medal at the Great American Beer Festival and a 100 rating from the Beer Advocate . This beer is that good, and brewed in such small batches that the ...
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Journal Entry
on August 2, 2015
1. Deutschland83
Sundance TV is the place to see this terrific German-language series set in Cold War 1983. Jonas Nay is the charming star of this multi-layered spy story set in East and West Germany amid intense threat of nuclear war. There are all kinds of plot twists and switchbacks that will ...
