All Blog posts Tagged: '_'
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Kanye Rented AT&T Park to Propose to Kim Kardashian
Back in June, The Triangle’s Jonah Keri ranked AT&T Park as the second-best ballpark experience in Major League Baseball. But back in June, the park was merely home to the San Francisco Giants and some nice views of the bay, not to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s legacy of love and public courtship–via–ass shots. Now […]
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About Last Night: Giants Finally Victorious
In case you were busy keeping a drumroll sound going for 28 hours (and counting) in anticipation of the NCAA’s announcement of its findings in the Nevin Shapiro investigation, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday: For some reason ESPN preempted coverage of the Monday Night Football game between the Giants and Vikings to […]
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Katy Perry’s Growth Spurt
With Prism, the pop princess attempts a pivot to more mature themes.
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Afternoon Links: Arnold Is Now Happy to Do Kindergarten Cop Quotes for Your Amusement
There’s no way Lionsgate is happy with Escape Plan‘s anemic debut, but we the people have received a golden treasure attached to the unnecessary movie’s existence: seven new videos on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s YouTube channel. They’re all clips of the Governator reinterpreting some of his classic lines via Reddit request, and they are genuinely Schwarztacular.
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8-Day NBA Warning: It’s All About Giannis
We need to talk about the youngest player in the NBA. The one they call the Greek Freak. The one who was sent here to save pro basketball in Wisconsin. Where did he come from? As the New York Times reported in June, “Other Greek stars worked their way up through youth national teams and […]
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The Music World Remembers Elliott Smith, 10 Years Later
Elliott Smith died October 21, 2003 — 10 years ago today. All day, various outlets have celebrated his life and music — which, it seems simultaneously unnecessary and diminishing to say, meant so much to so many people. Below, we’ve pulled together a few of today’s notable tales, tributes, and reminiscences of one of the […]
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Baseball Scout School, Part 4: A Little Less White Space on This Previously Blank Scouting Slate
Ben Lindbergh, editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, is learning how to be a baseball scout. He is enrolled in MLB’s Scout Development Program, where he is getting an education in how to trust his eyes as much as he trusts the numbers. According to a fellow Scout School student who works for the Arizona Fall League, […]
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The Triangle NBA All-Stars: Lance Stephenson and Kent Bazemore
Compiling the Triangle NBA All-Stars offers a way for us to celebrate the players we love way too much. You can see the other entries in the series here. Check out the latest additions, Lance Stephenson and Kent Bazemore, below. Lance Stephenson Why We Love Him: If LeBron James is the Patrón of NBA superstars, […]
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Behold Revolt, the Debut of Diddy’s Very Own Cable Network
Sean “Diddy” Combs is without question the Forrest Gump of the last 20 years of pop culture. His dancing in front of Elvis, meeting Lyndon Johnson, and investing in Apple is discovering the Notorious B.I.G., performing with Sting, and dating Jennifer Lopez. Or starting a successful vodka company. Or getting mocked by Dave Chappelle. Or […]
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When Yeezus Met Jesus, and Everything Else You Need to Know About the First Night of Kanye West’s Tour
Kanye West’s Yeezus tour is live. It launched Saturday in Seattle, and various corners of the Internet have it pegged as a spectacle gigantic enough to possibly overshadow the Watch the Throne tour in arena hip-hop history. Collected here is a brief dossier to allow you to fool acquaintances into believing you were hard-core enough […]