There are only 2 reasons I can think of for not liking Mark Titus:

1. You're jelly
2. Your name is Evan Turner

I guess the strategy now is to just flood the site with content, which isn't really a bad idea, though I hate that they don't categorize things into NFL/Soccer/MLB/Pop culture bull****

Bill Simmons ran about 3 std dev above his expected life, gawd he's so bad at knowing stuff and learning and processing new information

The subtitle on the front page for the YouTube HOF
This week: Howard Cosell, Alexander Semin, and two men hit with footballs.

The title of the video inside "Funny Alexi Kovalev interview"

I think I put more effort into proof reading my posts on here than they do editing their site.

ICWUDT

It now reads:

Howard Cosell, R.E.M., and Two Men Hit With Footballs

I mean, he's OK, he had a funny little run, but should he really be a contributor to a supposedly serious sports site?

whoa whoa whoa REM broke up?!? Guess that's fine, but man.

and leave it Klosterman to completely Kloster-**** his Stipe analysis.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...ler-vs-leonard

Hagler vs. Sugar Ray, oral history.

really good

and here's a cool video to watch after you read

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcAZ7gnRh4o

Hagler v Leonard oral history was the best thing this site has run since The National oral history. I'm sensing a theme developing...

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...-nba-economics

Good gladwell article

My favorite part is this footnote:

The economics of stadiums, of course, deserves its own separate article. But here's a small point, courtesy of my friend David Goldhill. Most stadiums — the Barclays Center included — are subsidized in some way by local government. The logic is this. An arena will bring a certain level of new economic activity to a neighborhood, which will generate tax revenues. So it makes sense for a city to put some portion of those expected revenues toward the construction of an arena. NBA owners love these deals. If there's no basketball season, however, then the tax revenue cities bank on to pay for their investment disappears. Goldhill says that in that case, owners really ought to reimburse the municipalities that gave them money. But has anyone even mentioned this possibility? The NBA plutocracy voted not to play basketball right after taking money from local taxpayers on the promise that they would play basketball. How do these guys sleep at night?

Hagler/Leonard oral history was outstanding

cousin sal podcasts are always so so good

right now i'm picturing grantland offices as a bunch of nerds-are-cool-now nerds sitting around scrolling through their twitter on their ipad, waiting for a player's union lawyer to respond to their IM and leak some stuff



not that i'm a hater. that was a legit good article

Really good article here. Deserves more attention. It's probably more interesting than everything I've read on Grantland combined.

lol Bruins beat writer trolling Simmons

Bravo to Gladwell for properly using footnotes!

yeah i love how he invariably [censored] something up every time he tries to talk about hockey (and soccer too, iirc), and always chalks it up to a "brain fart", rather than not having a clue what he's talking about, or having competent editors/fact checkers. guess the latter isn't at fault when he fails on twitter though.

he's getting old and turning into Rick Reilly, kinda funny to see him fighting it so hard.

CT wasnt on the Gauntlet, he probably means the Duel II #challengefacts

MLSE doesn't own the Blue Jays.

He got the Kelo case wrong. There were previous cases where the government could seize land and hand it over to private businesses for economic development. This case was about non "blighted" land being seized.

He also makes it sound like they just take your property. The government gives you market value for whatever they take. They still have to pay for the takings.

/nit