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Grantland was a sports and pop-culture blog owned and operated by ESPN. [1] The blog was started in 2011 by veteran writer and sports journalist Bill Simmons, who remained as editor-in-chief until May 2015. Grantland was named after famed early-20th-century sportswriter Grantland Rice (1880–1954).
Oct 30, 2015 · Grantland, the much-loved and relatively little-read longform sports journalism site that began as a vanity project for founding editor Bill Simmons and grew into one of the Web’s best venues...
Nov 5, 2015 · Bill Simmons opened up about the demise of Grantland for the first time on Wednesday, mourning the end of the ESPN-owned site he used to run while criticizing his former employer again.
Nov 2, 2015 · It named itself after the “Dean of American Sportswriters,” Grantland Rice; as consulting editors, it hired famous writers Dave Eggers, Malcolm Gladwell, Chuck Klosterman and Jane Leavy; and ...
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Oct 30, 2015 · To mark its legacy, we compiled some of our favorite articles from Grantland, along with some words about why they stuck with us. “ The Cult of ‘Jurassic Park’ ” by Bryan Curtis. A few ...
Nov 8, 2015 · Grantland, loftily named after erudite sportswriter Henry Grantland Rice, was considered a solid, sometimes-bold step into the world of sports-related journalism, becoming one of the most ...
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May 8, 2015 · One of the very first pieces that Grantland ever published back in the summer of 2011 was an oral history of The National, the cult daily newspaper about sports that launched in 1990. It only...
