All Blog posts Tagged: '_'
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Bad Quarterback League, Week 6: When Las Vegas Ruined Peyton Manning
A good rule of thumb for gambling is that anytime Vegas sets a “record” point spread, you should take the underdog. No matter how great one team is and how horrible the other is, the laws of the universe almost always keep it close somehow. That’s what happened in Denver on Sunday. It didn’t matter […]
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Seven Predictions for College Football’s Second Half Based on One Telling Metric: Yards Per Play
We’ve hit college football’s midway mark, but what do we really know? At this point last season, Oregon and Kansas State looked like legitimate BCS championship contenders, Geno Smith looked like a stronger Heisman candidate than Johnny Manziel, and Oregon State looked like a Rose Bowl Cinderella. College football’s short season makes every week a […]
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Ranking the 21 Best Paul McCartney Deep Tracks
It didn’t occur to me until hours after seeing the first of Paul McCartney’s three-hour, 38-song sets at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center this summer, but had Brooklyn been a stop on the 1976 Wings Over America tour — McCartney’s first post-Beatles slate of U.S. concert dates — he could have played 36 of the same songs […]
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Video: Four Minutes of Big Papi Doing Awesome Things in the Postseason
There are a lot of good reasons to hate the Boston Red Sox, but I’m pretty sure David Ortiz is someone upon whom everyone can agree. Remember his speech after the Boston Marathon bombing this year? Characters like Big Papi are one of the reasons sports will always be the greatest.
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The YouTube-ified Hot 100 Is Definitely Broken
According to Billboard, the Hot 100 chart ranks “the week’s most popular current songs across all genres.” How it has calculated that popularity has changed several times since its inception, most recently in the February decision to factor in streaming play alongside radio play, digital downloads and physical purchase [cue sound effect]. The YouTube change […]
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#HotSportsTakes: The Dodgers Are a Disgrace
Every now and then, we will attempt to write the worst sports column on Earth. Today: Let’s talk about the MLB playoffs and the future of America’s pastime. CHAVEZ RAVINE, CALIFORNIA — The Dodgers, the Cardinals, and a battle for baseball’s soul. That’s what we have in the National League Championship Series this year. It’s […]
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What’s With All These Open Letters?
It was a chilly fall evening in Toluca Lake, and the air of Miley Cyrus’s mansion was perfumed by a lump of wasabi in an empty sushi container. Miley reclined against the torso of a warm, cozy bear-person and reached into her giant mailbag. She removed an envelope from Sufjan Stevens, received a grammar lesson, […]
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Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Will Host the Golden Globes for Two More Years
Finally, a trilogy everyone actually wants to see. (If this doesn’t sound like you, please locate the X on your browser and click it. Or just grab a Sharpie and mark a fat X over your screen — that will also work.) Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, humor empresses and superlative Neil Patrick Harris hecklers […]
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Introducing the Triangle NBA All-Stars: The People’s Dream Team
The Triangle All-Star Team is a way for the Triangle blog to celebrate our favorite players. Today: We begin with John Wall and Boogie Cousins. Chris Ryan: In today’s NBA, every aspect of a player’s game is there for us to evaluate. Every mistakenly taken midrange jumper is there on Synergy or can be visualized […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Prayers for Marques
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. Doomsday Preppers Bugged Out (Nat Geo) Who Is This […]
