All Blog posts Tagged: '_'
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We Went There: Learning to Surrender to John Mayer at the Hollywood Bowl
On Saturday night, Grantland sent Tess Lynch and me, Molly Lambert, to the Hollywood Bowl for the Los Angeles stop of John Mayer’s Born and Raised tour. We were excited to bond with our fellow Angelenos in the comfort of a legendary venue after a humiliating week of having to tell our friends that our […]
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Premier League Pass & Move: Wonder Boys
A review of the weekend’s Premier League action. Young Guns Chris Ryan: We’re going to look back on this time, people. We’re going to look back and remember, “That was the time dozens of British football pundits and announcers bravely tried to pronounce Adnan Januzaj’s name while screaming. They were the best of us.”
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Ron Burgundy Is Now Selling Dodge Trucks
We can all agree that we love Ron Burgundy, yes? At least as much as one can love a catchphrase-generating fictional character whose influence on the culture has become so outsize that San Diego was forced to install “Welcome Into the Whale’s Vagina” signs at its city limits and the mere mention of “Sex Panther” […]
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NFL Run & Shootaround: Football After Dark
On any given Sunday (or Monday, or Thursday), your NFL Run & Shootaround crew will be gathered around multiple televisions, making inappropriate jokes and generally regressing to the mean. Catch up on all the NFL action right here. Sunday Dead-of-Night Football Robert Mays: Of all the things to get used to about the West Coast, […]
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SNL: Miley Once Again Demands Our Collective Attention With Impressive Hosting Double Duty
In the span of less than a week, Miley Cyrus got into a cyber fight with Sinead O’Connor, was the subject of a New York Times piece defending her against critics, and pulled double duty hosting and musical-guesting on SNL. Everyone seems to be joining forces to put Miley through Olympian-level trials while staring so […]
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Bill and Jalen’s NBA Preview: Sacramento Kings
Bill Simmons and Jalen Rose take a long look at the Sacramento Kings and explore what roster moves the new owner could feel compelled to make, whether DeMarcus “Boogie” Cousins will stop shooting bad jump shots, and why frequent flyer mileage programs are the key to champagne-ing and campaigning in Sac Town. Check out the […]
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College Football, Week 6: Live in the Now
Last Thursday, we wondered what this weekend might make of four would-be contenders — teams that emerged from September comfortably within the Top 25 and looking as though they might be cut out for a January Pasadena adventure, but that had some real hurdles left to clear. The findings were surprisingly tidy: two close wins […]
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Homeland Season 3, Episode 2 Recap: An Unpleasant Turn From Saul in ‘Uh … Oh … Ah …’
If Homeland‘s title had ever intended to double its length, I’d always assumed the missing word would be “security.” But two seasons and two episodes in, I now think “stability” is a better fit. In a country as big as ours and with psyches as damaged as the ones belonging to these protagonists, stability seems […]
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About Last Weekend: The Buccos Are Back
In case you were busy signing with the Vikings in order to guarantee a Super Bowl ring, here’s what you missed in sports last weekend: The Pittsburgh Pirates are a game away from the National League Championship Series after Pedro Alvarez powered them to a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. “Don’t say anything,” […]
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Box Office Top Five: Gravity Sets Records While Rush Falls Flat
1. Gravity, $55.5 million (opening weekend) Gravity, simply put, kicked ass. It’s Alfonso Cuarón’s second-biggest opening, and the man directed a Harry Potter movie. It’s the largest October opening ever, and, per Forbes, “among the top-ten live-action debuts of all-time for a completely original film (above Ted’s $54 million and behind Valentine’s Day’s $56 million […]
