Posts by Chris Ryan
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Alex Ferguson Calls Time: 3 Takeaways on the Manchester United Manager’s Retirement
1. Before Alex and After Alex As any Liverpool fan with a good memory will be happy to tell you, English football did not start with the Premier League’s 1992 formation. It can sometimes feel that way; the league is rather proficient at self-mythology, so much so you’d think an achievement like, say, Tottenham’s double-winning […]
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NBA Playoffs Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Modern Grizzlies of the City
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. Mike & Zach & Marc & Tony Chris Ryan: Aside from 8Ball & MJG, Big Star, and Three 6, these guys are now my favorite Memphis band. My favorite song by them is probably “We Don’t Care If We’re Home […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Summer Movies, Game of Thrones, and Reese Witherspoon’s Greatest Dashcam Hits
The past few weeks Chris and I have been constrained by time and topic, rushing through our recording as if Tywin Lannister were watching us from behind a desk, shaking his head and pointing to an hourglass. Well, no longer! Taking inspiration from Reese Witherspoon, Great(est) American Hero, we’ve decided that nothing is going to […]
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Back to the Grindhouse
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. The Grindhouse Bench (All GIFs by @HeyBelinda) Chris Ryan: The fact that whatever happens on the court is so grimy, Tony Allen feels the need to wander off with that look on his face. Also, it looks like Z-Bo is […]
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Jordan Crawford Has Five On It
What a gladiator. (h/t to Ben Rohrbach and WEEI’s always awesome Green Street blog)
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Mad Men, Mud, and Getting Clean on Game of Thrones
On this week’s episode, boys become men, men go to the movies, fathers yell at their children, and children hang out and pump it up with Michael Shannon. First off, as a matter of housecleaning, our very own podcast, and all the other great pop culture shows on the Grantland Network, are getting their own […]
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NBA Playoffs Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Rockets-Thunder Edition!
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA playoff action. 1. Chandler Parsons (All GIFs by @HeyBelinda, unless otherwise noted) Chris Ryan: At various points last night, during Grantland Live’s live-tweet coverage of the Rockets-Thunder game, Chandler Parsons was compared to Brad Pitt’s character in True Romance and someone out […]
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This One Is for Jason Collins
From the Sports Illustrated cover story in which the NBA veteran comes out: “After our birthday I dashed to Target and bought DJ Quik’s album Quik Is the Name. I memorized every line. It was around this time that I began noticing subtle differences between Jarron and me. Our twinness was no longer synchronized. I […]
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Hug Mansion: The First Round of the 2013 NFL Draft in Commissioner Hugs
This is the most important evaluation of the draft you will read. Eric Fisher (All GIFs by @HeyBelinda) Chris: This doesn’t feel like a no. 1 draft-pick hug to me. I may be a little distracted with the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen camerawork, but this seems a little low-key. Maybe Goodell was just getting […]
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Back Inside the Grindhouse
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s playoff games. 1. Zach Randolph Zach is back! Fourteen career playoff double-doubles! Lost his headband a couple of times! Clearly the beneficiary of a night spent in a hyperbaric chamber where you pump in 8ball & MJG mixtapes instead of oxygen! Steve Nash […]
