All Blog posts Tagged: '_'
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Cowboys Wrangled, Again
The unfortunate ballad of Tony Romo continues. Plus, the rest of the worthy news from Week 5.
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MLB’s Second Season Gets Weird
A wild weekend in baseball has October living up to everything you want it to be.
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The Best of Grantland Pop Culture Podcasts: Breaking Bad, Survivor, Lorde
Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald discuss Breaking Bad, the Hoodies debate the merits of pop singer Lorde, The Right Reasons talk Survivor, Greenwald interviews Elwood Reid, and Prince Movies diagnose Walter White. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to Grantland Pop Culture on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page.
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Afternoon Links: David Letterman Is Sticking Around Till at Least 2015
“Les [Moonves, CBS CEO] and I had a lengthy discussion, and we both agreed that I needed a little more time to fully run the show into the ground,” David Letterman LOLs in a new statement. So now the 66-year-old veteran of so many late-night wars, battles, and skirmishes will find himself squaring off against […]
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Songs of the Week: Ka, Killa Cam, Swearin’, Iceage, and Free Ms. Lauryn Hill
Hear seven days of jams.
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25-Day NBA Warning: Rondooooooooooooooo!
Derrick’s back, and Russell’s gonna be back (eventually), and Kobe will be back as soon as he gets done sacrificing a barrel of kittens to Marduk, the great healer of Babylon. But if I’m being honest, the player I’m most excited to see return to the court is Rajon Rondo.
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NBC’s Fall Ratings: Playing It Safe, All the Way to the Bottom
That the peacock is an ostentatious yet mostly flightless bird is an observation well known to anyone who has been chronicling NBC’s lost decade — particularly as it threatens to stretch into a second. So many were surprised to see the network soaring in the first week of the new fall season: Buoyed by its […]
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But I Want to Believe! Turning to Vince Gilligan’s Own Words to Debunk the Breaking Bad Finale ‘Dream Theory’
The final episode of Breaking Bad was an exhibition of mechanical precision that would have made the Germans at Madrigal Electromotive GmbH soil their Detlef Schrempf throwbacks. After countless thingamajigs had clicked and whirled, Walter White was afforded a best-case scenario in every possible way: His fortune was passed along to his family, his wife […]
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Week 5 NFL Viewing Guide: Let’s Talk About J.J. Watt and the Universe
Line Play Nerdery of the Week J.J. Watt vs. the 49ers, 8:30 p.m. ET So, this is happening. It doesn’t get much better than the NFL’s best defensive lineman against the NFL’s best offensive line. I’m putting this game right up there with Gravity in terms of making me think about the vastness of the […]
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Cousin Sal’s Week 5 Prop Bets
+47,500 jermajesties last week +133,000 jermajesties overall for the season Hello, degenerates! As you can see, life is good again. Week 4 proved to be profitable. Now all there’s left to do this weekend is to put our heads together and amass a bundle of tax-free jermajesties.* Yes — that’s right — any amount won […]
