June 15, 2011

Grantland Debuts

ESPN's Bill Simmons has launched the ambitious sports website, Grantland: so far, so good. We especially loved a long oral history of the rise and fall of a national sports newspaper, The National, and an informative summary of some of the developments in sabermetrics, and how they might apply to this year's baseball season. I especially loved the section on defense, which might explain some of the otherwise inexplicable advances and declines of some teams.