Grantland - 50 Best Websites

Grantland - 50 Best Websites

Sports

The Web is already well equipped with outstanding sites on every known athletic pursuit. Is there room for one more? Absolutely, if that site is Grantland, the new creation of one of today's finest sportswriters, Bill Simmons. The ESPN-owned site has a roster of contributors that's formidable and a mission that's broad enough to include wrestling music, Canadian rodeo and even movies about monkeys. (A meaningful minority of the stories are about pop culture rather than sports.) Grantland is named for legendary sports scribe Grantland Rice (1880–1954), and is a fitting tribute to his memory.

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Bleacher Report - 50 Best Websites

Bleacher Report - 50 Best Websites

Sports

At Bleacher Report, the sports reporting isn't performed by a tiny staff of full-time journalists — it's done by thousands of fan-contributors, which is why it feels so deep and so passionate. The standard of quality is markedly higher than at some community-created news hubs, where "citizen journalist" can be a synonym for "poorly paid amateur." Like a sports-themed variant of the Huffington Post, the site has a penchant for wacky lists and sideshows. Many of them, like "50 Bold Predictions for the Rest of the MLB Season," are nicely done, not just fluffy filler.

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Wonderopolis - 50 Best Websites

Wonderopolis - 50 Best Websites

Family & Kids

The daily articles at the National Center for Family Literacy's Wonderopolis are allegedly educational and supposedly aimed at kids. Don't let that fool you. They're just plain interesting, and make for addictive reading even for those of us who are, in theory, all grown up. For example, "How Does an Eraser Work?" doesn't just explain how erasers work — did you know they usually contain vegetable oil? — but also reveals how people removed pencil marks before Englishman Edward Naime invented the eraser in 1770. (They used rolled-up pieces of bread.)

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