So, Grantland was shutdown....

amcoolio · Post #1 » by **amcoolio** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 8:34 pm

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?

Post #2 » by **JDR720** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 8:45 pm

offer him part ownership and a job as our beat writter

Benjamin Linus · Post #3 » by **Benjamin Linus** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 8:53 pm

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.

Post #4 » by **yosemiteben** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:58 pm

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

Post #5 » by **fatlever** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:09 pm

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.

LamarMatic7 · Post #6 » by **LamarMatic7** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:25 pm

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.

EwingSweatsALot · Post #7 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:28 pm

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.

EwingSweatsALot · Post #8 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:30 pm

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.

amcoolio · Post #9 » by **amcoolio** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:50 pm

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

Vanderbilt_Grad · Post #10 » by **Vanderbilt_Grad** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 12:57 am

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.

LamarMatic7 · Post #11 » by **LamarMatic7** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 2:34 am

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.

Post #12 » by **fatlever** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:16 am

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.

-Ian- · Post #13 » by **-Ian-** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:36 am

Can we get Lowe as our GM or President?