All Blog posts Tagged: '_'
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Two Teams, Two Games, One City: A Night of Sports Heartbreak for Atlanta
“Hey, basketball’s back. The Hawks played tonight.” A friend said this to me, but I didn’t look up to see who it was. I was sitting on the floor of a bar, hat partially over face, watching texts from lifelong friends fly in, most echoing the same sentiment: “What did we do to deserve this?” […]
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Bad Quarterback League, Week 5: The Matt Schaub Machine Cannot Be Stopped
We’re keeping it quick with BQBL this week, and we begin in Houston. It’s damn near impossible for a bad quarterback to top a game in which he was beating the best team in the league only to have the lead slowly slip away, putting an exclamation point on it all with a pick-six to […]
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Sandra Bullock: Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood
Whatever Sandra Bullock’s doing, she should keep it up. Get stuck in space again! Play an even more bumbling FBI agent! Adopt two illiterate black football players! We don’t care. We might just watch her do anything, including star in another movie with Bradley Cooper, maybe even if it’s as rotten as All About Steve. […]
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My Emancipation Don’t Fit Your Equation: Lauryn Hill Postponing House Arrest to Go on Tour
Lauryn Hill’s $1 million tax debt sentence was a two-parter: three months in the Orange Is the New Black prison, three months in home confinement. Now, a few days after Hill headed home and dropped a new track, TMZ reports the house arrest is being postponed to permit a tour. The dates on Hill’s request […]
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Escalating Mike Davis: The Week Ahead in Ill-Advised Texas Longhorns Sound Bites
Texas Longhorns wide receiver Mike Davis had himself an unacceptably intimate encounter with the knees of Iowa State defensive back Deon Broomfield during Thursday night’s Longhorns-Cyclones game: Broomfield shared his thoughts on the incident after the game via Twitter, and got right to the point: “Mike Davis really tried to take me out.” Davis took […]
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We Went There: The Bucs Start Here
Pirates fans remember Sid Bream’s spikes-first slide into home plate as if his spikes had sliced through their collective femoral arteries. That was back in ’92, in the seventh game of the NLCS. The Pirates wouldn’t have a winning season for another 21 years. This week’s Cardinals-Pirates playoff series was about restoring life to a […]
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Thank You for Not Coaching, Week 5
Mike Smith just can’t get it right these days. When he’s aggressive, his team fails and gets second-guessed. When he’s conservative, his team eventually fails and gets second-guessed some more. I was ready to give his Falcons a week off from this space, since they were playing in the Monday-night game and I’ve usually got […]
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![Jay-Z, Adele, and Thom Yorke]()
The Album Doctor Is In
Eight prescriptions for better records from creatively ailing artists.
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The First Twitter TV Ratings Are Here, But Do They Actually Tell the Truth?
Last December, Nielsen announced it had partnered with Twitter to create a ratings system based on tweet chatter. The press release seemed as though it had been written by aliens or robots, even more so than the usual PR statement: You know, everyone’s “looking forward to collaborating with Twitter ecosystem partners on this metric” and […]
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Jonah Keri Podcast: Dave Cameron, Paul Sporer, and Jane Lee
In the middle of one of the craziest days that baseball has seen in years, we had to do a podcast! Dave Cameron of FanGraphs joined Jonah Keri to break down all four League Division Series. On the docket: Was starting Clayton Kershaw on short rest a good idea? Can the Rays hang with the […]
