All Blog posts Tagged: '_'
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Shooting Blanks: The Players With the Worst ShotScore
Yesterday we looked at ShotScore, a new method to identify the NBA’s best scorers. You can read the full piece here, but in a nutshell, the method compares the actual point yield of an individual NBA shooter against an estimated tally of what an average NBA shooter would accrue from that exact same set of […]
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The All-22 All-Stars: Jurrell Casey, an Evolving Titan
The All-22 All-Star Team is an attempt to provide some insight on the NFL’s 22 most underappreciated players. Some will be All-Pros who haven’t fully gotten their due; some will be names few casual fans have ever heard. All will, for one reason or another, have been overlooked. The customary attire at the NFL combine […]
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The Check-In: Modern Family Remains a Well-Oiled, If Unexciting, Sitcom Machine
Yesterday I wrote at length about TV comedies that are popular with a certain sliver of the viewing public, primarily those who write about TV for a living. It’s only logical, then, to take some time today to check in on a show that is popular popular: ABC’s Modern Family. (Standard disclosure: ABC and Grantland are […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: American Horror Story: Coven, John Mayer, and Miley vs. Sinead
We may not all have seen Gravity yet (it was a very busy weekend!) but the Girls in Hoodies are all-in on American Horror Story: Coven, the third series of Ryan Murphy and Brian Falchuk’s horror anthology franchise. There’s just something about Jessica Lange’s dance interludes that transcend the genre, and we all agree it’s […]
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NL Championship Series Preview
The evenly matched Dodgers and Cardinals face off with a World Series berth on the line.
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The Toronto Raptors Mascot Is Down, But Never Out: In Praise of a Great Performer
True story: There is an NBA mascot convention every summer, where about two dozen mascot performers get together, exchange best practices, show off their best highlights from the prior season, and even meet with various consultants from the league and mascot-related industries. They also give out various awards, sort of a mascot Oscars — best […]
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Real American Hero
Seth Jones, the 19-year-old son of Popeye, is set to make his debut tonight for Nashville. Can he live up to the hype?
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Some Sicko Bought Walter White’s Tighty Whities for $10,000
Or $9,900, actually, but that’s only $100 less gross. The auction of iconic Breaking Bad props happened over at ScreenBid, where more than 300 items were pawned off to shore up Vince Gilligan’s Vince Gilligan Is the Best Foundation. (We jest — Sony Pictures Television will net something like 80 percent of the $1 million […]
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Phone Transcripts: The USC Football Coaching Hoax
Lane Kiffin was fired as USC’s head football coach on September 29, and by now, you’ve probably heard of the alleged con artist who impersonated a USC official and called Tony Dungy and Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio, pretending to discuss the football team’s coaching vacancy. Dungy revealed he had been contacted on a […]
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Chasing Maverick: Archer Does Top Gun
Everything you need to know about the incredible attention to detail in this Archer makeover of Kenny Loggins’s “Danger Zone (Love Theme to Top Gun*)” is contained in the fleeting moment at 1:11, when Sterling/Maverick short-arms Cyril/Goose’s dog tags into the Pacific. Tom Cruise, as you may remember, cannot throw, and his awkward heave of […]
