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Seeing as Lowe was one of the only insightful guys to go to on NBA basketball, where do we go now? And where does Lowe go?

offer him part ownership and a job as our beat writter

Bill Simmons has been slowly bringing over guys from Grantland. I wonder if he going to start a new site. He still needs a place to write articles himself. But yeah, I liked Grantland, even the pop culture stuff like Hollywood Prospectus.

I love their sports analysis, but I must confess that I found their layout and emphasis on pop news to be annoying.

yosemiteben wrote:I love their sports analysis, but I must confess that I found their layout and emphasis on pop news to be annoying.

I loved some of the pop stuff. I religiously read their weekly articles about Mad Men and Game of Thrones.

yosemiteben wrote:I love their sports analysis, but I must confess that I found their layout and emphasis on pop news to be annoying.

I treated it as an opportunity to pick what you are interested in. I download like 3% of the podcasts that appear on my Grantland Pop Culture feed. But it's not like I was annoyed by it. Just knew that there are only separate things that I am interested in.

I do heavily dislike Rembert though. That's something I have to confess. I honestly don't know what's good about him. I always feel like his articles go nowhere. Just a huge waste of words. He tries to search for some point, randomly rambles on and doesn't get anywhere.

LamarMatic7 wrote:

yosemiteben wrote:I love their sports analysis, but I must confess that I found their layout and emphasis on pop news to be annoying.

I treated it as an opportunity to pick what you are interested in. I download like 3% of the podcasts that appear on my Grantland Pop Culture feed. But it's not like I was annoyed by it. Just knew that there are only separate things that I am interested in.

I do heavily dislike Rembert though. That's something I have to confess. I honestly don't know what's good about him. I always feel like his articles go nowhere. Just a huge waste of words. He tries to search for some point, randomly rambles on and doesn't get anywhere.

I don't know if it was known or planned, but he announced a bit back that today would be his last day at Grantland because he took the Writer-At-Large at New York Magazine. Sounds like coincidence.

This really shows that everything Bill Simmons said was true, and all the bull **** that ESPN spewed about his departure and them going after Simmons about his comments on Grantland was just that, bull ****.

For anyone that sided with ESPN should really rethink their positioning after this.

I don't side with ESPN by any means but I don't like Fox Sports, CBS Sports is a joke...where else do you go?

Maybe HBO does something

The only ESPN link I still have in my favorites is for the Trade Machine. I have literally no reason to go to their site anymore. They are still a bit relevant to me in other media ... but fading there too.

Vanderbilt_Grad wrote:The only ESPN link I still have in my favorites is for the Trade Machine. I have literally no reason to go to their site anymore. They are still a bit relevant to me in other media ... but fading there too.

Kevin Arnovitz, Baxter Holmes, Marc Stein and others do good long-read articles from time to time. Such stuff is usually worth the read. But even then you get re-directed from Twitter and don't quite visit the site itself, I guess, if that's your drift. Then, yeah, I completely agree.

amcoolio wrote:I don't side with ESPN by any means but I don't like Fox Sports, CBS Sports is a joke...where else do you go?

Maybe HBO does something

SB Nation has a lot of good team specific blogs. Their Chelsea blog is fantastic.

I never use the ESPN website. I hate it. I'm even slightly annoyed our fantasy league his hosted on that site. I very rarely watch ESPN unless its an NBA game or NFL game or US Soccer.

Can we get Lowe as our GM or President?