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*As a politician, it’s generally not a good thing when people around the country start referring to your term in office as “Nixon-ian.” Alas, that term seems to be thrown at Barack Obama more and more these days – and they’re sure not referring to a visit to China or love for board game-monikered [...]
*Going into the NBA playoffs, we knew the names of the guys who were in their prime – LeBron, Kevin Durant, Carmelo. We knew that it might be the last go-around for Tim Duncan, KG, Paul Pierce and Pau Gasol. We knew that Dwight Howard and Josh Johnson had something to prove. What we didn’t [...]
*So, a little superhero movie named “Iron Man 3″, the latest entry into the fabulously lucrative superhero genre that has made a lot of Hollywood executives very, very rich, and a lot of comic book fans very, very satisfied. So with the newest Iron Man on the scene (and a new Superman very soon), let’s rank the [...]
*Among all the troubling things that have come out of the Boston bombing attacks, perhaps nothing is more disturbing than the rise of breathless, paranoid conspiracy theories that have spread like a virus. No longer concealed to the disturbed forums of darkened corners of the internet, these insane theories have gone mainstream – helped by [...]
*Well, the day is finally here – and it’s a day for celebration, some would say. With one smiling Sports Illustrated cover, a massive barrier was smashed down. There was finally an active, gay male athlete in an American team sport. In the aftermath of Jason Collins’ titanic announcement, the world just kept on spinning [...]
*There’s really nothing quite like the spectacle of a grown man in a suit calling out the names of other young men in suits for three hours. After all, that’s what the NFL Draft really is, isn’t it? Still, though, credit to ESPN for turning it into an actual event. It’s become must-see television every [...]
*So, “The Walking Dead” is pretty much the biggest thing on television right now. Check out the ratings for the season three finale: 12.4 million. That beats most scripted network shows. For a cable program to do that? It’s groundbreaking, really. It shows just how much people really do love seeing zombies getting impaled by [...]
*It’s strange seeing someone seemingly indestructible go down with a massive injury – and yet, we’ve seen a ton of it recently. Peyton Manning missed an entire year with a debilitating neck injury. Adrian Peterson shredded an ACL and an MCL. Mariano Rivera crumpled to the ground on a Kansas City afternoon with a blown-out [...]
In a well-deserved honor, the great Jamie Foxx received the “MTV Generation Award” the MTV Movie Awards this past weekend. Sure, it probably can’t measure up to his Oscar – but still, it’s a worthy award for a man who’s built up an amazing career since his start on In Living Color. So, to further [...]
*So, last week we took at look at the individual divisions in baseball. Now, we get into the really interesting projections – the individual awards and the playoff picks. These are the fun ones. In the American League, let’s take the Tampa Bay Rays as the A.L. East champions, the Detroit Tigers to win the [...]
*The best way to sum up the life and career of Roger Ebert, the extraordinary film critic and and writer who passed away far too young last week? Let’s paraphrase a lyric from the title track of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me to properly describe him: nobody did it better. He [...]
*Okay, we give up. Go Heat. Those are two very, very tough words to say for us – but you know what? Sometimes, it’s just very cool to root for history. The streak might be over (thanks, Chicago), but its made a lot of us Miami Heat fans. We admit it, it hasn’t been easy. [...]
*Baseball is finally here! This is the first part of our breakdown – taking a look at the league, division-by-division. Next week, we’ll pick the MVPs, Cy Youngs, Rookies-of-the-Year and give a World Series pick. So, in the words of The Joker … here … we … go: The American League East is the toughest [...]
*March madness is just the best. It just is. There’s nothing as exciting as mentally checking out of work at noon on those first few days and wishing and hoping for some random, out-of-nowhere small school to defeat mighty Duke or UCLA or Kansas (but especially Duke). Of course, that bracket you fill out online [...]
*So, now we know three things about Argentina. One, it was on the losing end of that Falklands Island thing back in the 1980s. Two, it produces some damn good soccer players (pause for a second and YouTube “Lionel Messi” for proof). Three, it’s the native country of the newest pope – Cardinal Jorge Mario [...]
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