bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

haha this totally looks like someone using a wordpress theme in like late 2006 to try to emulate mcsweeneys or arts and letters daily

"presented by klondike"

also footnotes basically suck, it's like extra tldr

you're a professional, professionally put that shit into the body as a point you're trying to make or leave it out, you're not citing academic journals or something

footnote: they are hilarious when used properly

the klosterman story was a fun read!

re footnotes it maybe has something to do w/the strange phenomenon of dfw becoming an avatar for hack writers harboring pretensions everywhere

Grantland is ugly, but it's a shit ton easier to read/look at than Gawker Media's current format.

Yeah the design is amateurish but I'm not gonna say that bothers me in the least. As long as the articles are easy to read, right? But I agree with the "hard PG-13" comment above, it's like he knew he could use one "fuck" in his column and was just debating where to put it

it looks like yard work! which was when, 2005?

tbh if grantland had rotating banners (including, naturally, BIG BEAR) all would be a-ok here

Willing to bet that Klosterman, not Simmons, is the one that pushed for Carles.

going out on a limb with that

cant believe icey writes for grantland

http://deadspin.com/5810019/why-grantland-rice-sucked

Who are you, LeBron James? What's inside you? And why do I care so much? http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6640925/time-lebrondown-part-ii

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is that his dad by any chance?

indeed it is

that's one of the most depressing photos i've ever seen

i'm way too lazy to dig up all the instances when simmons trashed the bruins, tho i'm sure someone else is on it

Yeah, he crushed them when they were losing.

well guys tbf his objection to the bruins was always about the fact that ownership didn't spend to the level it could have in the 80s and 90s, and this issue has been made completely irrelevant by the nhl hard cap. so yeah now he's back on the horse but so are a lot of people, it's hockey for chrissakes, it's barely a major sport and lends itself to the bandwagon because the playoff version is so vastly different from/better than the reg season version--essentially he's me with a lot more money.

oh also i don't fuck w/merch from any team

That LBJ piece was underwhelming. ffs simmons, get up off your ass and write something!

feelin pa simmons whole look

kinda like mark twain in dockers

He reminds me of Michael Jeter in The Fisher King:

http://www.thirdfactory.net/images/fisher_king.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmhb7goxVB1qa9bmvo1_400.png

smh

Looks like einstein

hahahaha they punctuated carles hahahahaha

why did anyone think this was a good idea whyyyyyyy

THEY TYPED "MAIN BRO" ON THE FRONT PAGE

JUST A VERY COOL & EDGY WEBSITE

NOT THAT I DON'T <3 CARLES BUT

okay that carles article really isn't working for me.

just, like, domesticated carles is no carles at all.

yeah this is just... no

carles poems on the playoffs or no carles at all

That Carles article reminds me of Steve Martin when he wants to be a Serious Writer bro.

i will say--they are putting up more stuff per day than i have time for, and i love to kill time at work.

o what did they do to my carles

http://s0.2mdn.net/3234998/Klondike-Logo-Grantland.png

its like a fucking geocities site

wheres the counter in the footer http://www.d-s-t.com.au/_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=data/outsourced/Dual_PassiveRadaiator/index.htm|Image=4

he went to college and came back with all these crazy ideas in his head

xpost

I want a hit counter but also midi music playing while I read

I liked the Carles article. It's fun to see him try to class it up slightly.

id be funny if carles slowly morphed into a 'serious writer' w/a 'real career'

guys this website sux stop liking it :(((

lol

yeah i don't really get the fascination. bunch of shitty writers congealing around bill simmons of all people, whoop-tee-doo.

well a bunch of shitty writers and carles.

I like a lot of the writers I guess.

i like carles and molly lambert and sometimes simmons on the nba and prob some of the other writers not totally sure whos who, but mostly i think were approaching this from an 'amateur media criticism and rubbernecking' pov

i get what you're saying there but i think mostly it's like the last thing i want from simmons et al is a reason for them to take themselves really seriously, and this site seems to indulge in that and oh man, no thanks on that.

just write about the nba, bill! i'll take a thousand terrible gm summits to whatever this endeavor is.

it def has the potential to be horribly awful!

i mean there is no way in hell im reading dave eggers on wrigley field or two separate articles on some defunct sports newspaper

i will however agree check out the piece on baldwins twitter :/

oh christ of course eggers is writing for them i mean duh of course