All Blog posts Tagged: '_'
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The King’s Court
Tanking teams! Contenders standing pat! Thoughtful roster tweaks! When evaluating the NBA’s new tiers of power, there is one constant: LeBron & Co. still reign.
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Afternoon Links: Showtime Demanded Dexter Be Unkillable
The Dexter series finale was everything Breaking Bad’s closer wasn’t: namely, pretty lame. Was there any way it could’ve been better? Like, if the guy who killed so many people over the last eight years tasted his own medicine, maybe? Quizzed by Vulture about how the writers wound up with that exact disappointing ending, Dexter […]
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Has a Few Problems With Gravity
This fourth quarter of 2013 has been been filled with a number of public celebrity beefs, less notable for existing and more for how odd the participants have been. Coming off the end of summer’s Kendrick vs. all ’80s baby rappers verse, suddenly we were living in a world where Kanye West and Jimmy Kimmel […]
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Who’s That Guy? Oakland Pitcher Sonny Gray!
The 2013 MLB playoffs are in full swing. Are you keeping up? Baseball has a lot of games, and also a lot of players. If you’re overwhelmed, Michael Baumann is here to help. Brush up on Baumann’s playoff starting lineup, then circle back throughout the postseason for the lessons our Who’s That Guy series will […]
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Welcome to Baseball Scout School
Earlier this summer, while stuck — or, if my girlfriend asks, thrilled to be — in Syracuse for a wedding, I went to see the Toledo Mud Hens play the Syracuse Chiefs. The Chiefs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals, featured few promising prospects. Their starter that day was Shawn Hill, an injury-prone pitcher […]
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Career Arc: Alfonso Cuaron
Any attempt to explain the career of director Alfonso Cuarón has always defied writerly cliché; the task is even more difficult now that that arc has taken him to space. Earthbound objects leave the pull of our atmosphere only through excessive force and a multitude of calculations, and oftentimes it seems as though Cuarón has […]
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B.S. Report: Cousin Sal
Bill Simmons and Cousin Sal talk about Week 5’s NFL games and guess the lines for Week 6. Listen to the podcast here. Subscribe to the B.S. Report on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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Quentin Tarantino Releases Best of 2013 So Far, Shares His Love of The Lone Ranger
Whether it was to kick off the year-end list-making game earlier than ever or just to get a fan site off his back, Quentin Tarantino has named his favorite films of 2013 so far. The new QT honorees are alphabetized by title rather than ranked, and they mostly fall into neat little quadrants of sensibilities […]
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Because We Always Needed Hard Knocks for Pee Wee Football
Come for coach Jerry Gergich, stay for the Shakespeare trash talk. Everything is great. (Thanks to Deadspin for the heads-up and Shea Serrano for inspiring all this.)
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The Weekend in Hockey: Three Games in, Philly Makes a Change
A look at three of the biggest stories from the NHL weekend and how they’ll play into the coming days. It’s always funny in Philadelphia Well, that didn’t take long. Less than one full week into the season, we have our first coaching casualty: Flyers boss Peter Laviolette, who was canned after an 0-3 start […]
