Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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).
The Ringer was launched in March 2016 by Bill Simmons, who brought along several editors who had previously worked with him on Grantland, an ESPN-owned blog he operated from 2011 to 2015. [2] At launch, the Ringer had a staff of 43 and focused primarily on sports and pop culture as content areas, with a few writers also working on technology ...
The website's name was a reference to deceased sportswriter Grantland Rice, [47] though it was reportedly not Simmons' choice for the name. [48] Sports blog Deadspin had previously reported in 2010 that Simmons was working on a "top secret editorial project."
Grantland Rice's Sportlights ad in Exhibitor's Trade Review (Nov. 1924 – Feb. 1925). In 1907, Rice saw what he would call the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports during the Sewanee–Vanderbilt football game: the catch by Vanderbilt center Stein Stone, on a double-pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to set up the touchdown run by Honus Craig ...
Previously he was a founding editor of the ESPN sports and pop-culture blog Grantland, [14] and then served as editor of the science and technology blog Elements at The New Yorker from April to November 2014. [15] In the spring of 2020, Kang began co-hosting the podcast Time to Say Goodbye with E. Tammy Kim and Andrew B. Liu. [16]
Grantland was a sports and pop-culture blog owned and operated by ESPN. Grantland may also refer to: Grant Land, northernmost point of Canada; Grantland Rice (1880–1954), American sportswriter; Grantland Johnson (1948–2014), American politician and public administrator
Chris Connelly (born 1957) is an American sports and entertainment reporter who currently works for ESPN as a contributor to its E:60 newsmagazine. He was also the interim editor-in-chief of Grantland.com, replacing Bill Simmons, before ESPN shuttered the site in October 2015.
Grantland Rice, sportswriter for the New York Herald Tribune, gave the foursome football immortality. [3] After Notre Dame's 13–7 upset victory over a strong Army team, on October 18, 1924, Rice penned "the most famous football lede of all-time": [4] [5] Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again.