GRANTLAND ISSUE 1

Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Bill Simmons's new web magazine Grantland. It will feature the best sports writing from the website, delivered in a full-color book featuring original artwork and a host of print-exclusives—including original fiction, new writing from editor-in-chief Bill Simmons, posters and pull-out sections, old-school baseball cards and mini-booklets, and a cover that looks and feels like you're holding a basketball. Like its namesake website, Grantland Quarterly will regularly include some of the most exciting and form-pushing sports writers currently plying the trade, including Chuck Klosterman, Malcolm Gladwell, Tom Bissell, Harris Wittels, John Brandon, Anna Clark, Chris Jones, Colson Whitehead, and many more.

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And check out the LA Times review: "Grantland takes on the bigger world of sports."

Issue 1 features:

Bill Simmons on LeBron James's 2011 NBA playoffs meltdown, as well as a running diary of Hoosiers, in celebration of the movie's 25th anniversary

Malcolm Gladwell on the NBA lockout

Chuck Klosterman unearthing a breathtaking junior college basketball game in North Dakota

Colson Whitehead on his journey to the World Series of Poker

Jane Leavy remembering her father

Fiction from Jess Walter

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