Friday, November 18, 2011
Wrote three things for Grantland this week: My hockey column COLDHEARTED (I’m not even sure if they’re callling it that anymore but I refuse to let the name go) which this week discusses the New York Rangers, the fact that the Islanders’ jersey-creation department is in need of an intervention, the Hall of Fame inductees, the new GOON trailer, and how the Boston Bruins are testing the league, and no one is passing; Latest mailbag, the most important subject in which is a comparison between BLACK SWAN and COUNTRY STRONG; and Goalies of the Week, one of whom, thanks to an embarrassing point-blank miss by Nashville’s Craig Smith, is “the empty net.”  Anyway, all that pales in comparison to some of the amazing work done this week on Grantland, including Jonathan Abrams’ feature on the murder of Tayshana Murphy, a high school basketball sensation in Harlem; The Art of Fielding author Chad Harbach on the Milwaukee Brewers, and a genius “anti-profile” of Justin Blackmon by Brian Phillips. And if you haven’t been following the Penn State-related writing of Michael Weinreb, who grew up in State College, PA, you can catch up on it all here. It’s thoughtful, conflicted, and heartbreaking.

Wrote three things for Grantland this week:

  • My hockey column COLDHEARTED (I’m not even sure if they’re callling it that anymore but I refuse to let the name go) which this week discusses the New York Rangers, the fact that the Islanders’ jersey-creation department is in need of an intervention, the Hall of Fame inductees, the new GOON trailer, and how the Boston Bruins are testing the league, and no one is passing;
  • Latest mailbag, the most important subject in which is a comparison between BLACK SWAN and COUNTRY STRONG; and
  • Goalies of the Week, one of whom, thanks to an embarrassing point-blank miss by Nashville’s Craig Smith, is “the empty net.” 

Anyway, all that pales in comparison to some of the amazing work done this week on Grantland, including Jonathan Abrams’ feature on the murder of Tayshana Murphy, a high school basketball sensation in Harlem; The Art of Fielding author Chad Harbach on the Milwaukee Brewers, and a genius “anti-profile” of Justin Blackmon by Brian Phillips.

And if you haven’t been following the Penn State-related writing of Michael Weinreb, who grew up in State College, PA, you can catch up on it all here. It’s thoughtful, conflicted, and heartbreaking.

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  1. tan3000 reblogged this from katiebakes and added:
    other stuff…. this will conclude today’s series of Grantland PSA’s.
  2. biteofpythias said: nieuwendyk tied for 51st all time in points (1126 in 1257 games, .896 pts/gm) in hall. bernie nicholls 43rd all time in points (1209 points in 1127 games, 1.07 pts/gm) not in hall. Nicholls only guy in the top 50 all time over 1 pt/gm not in hall…
  3. missmala said: btw, all my male law school classmates read grandland and LOVE your columns. So keep on keeping on. Because 20-something men in Arizona like what you have to say
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