Posts by Chris Ryan
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Street-Fighting Men
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. The Pacers That’s eight wins out of the last nine for Indiana, five straight, and the end of a 4-0 road trip, which included two victories in Texas (Dallas and Houston) and a big win in Los Angeles against the […]
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Let’s Get It Turned Up: Kliff Kingsbury’s Mesmerizing Texas Tech Spring Practice Video
Let’s go. Let’s get it turned up. There you go. Let’s get it. Black on black. Murdered out. You got your gold? Time to get after it. Let’s go. There you go, Dominique. Trying to eat. Let’s go. Let’s get it turned up. It’s all good, baby-baby. (h/t Chris Brown)
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The Unedited Transcript of Tom Thibodeau’s Waka Flocka Press Conference
On Tuesday, noted animal-rights activist Waka Flocka Flame made a pretty big announcement on Twitter … Down with the William Morris #LAUGHING2DABANK — Waka Flocka Flame (@WakaFlockaBSM) March 26, 2013 Then he made another one … Word is D.Rose back #HolyShit — Waka Flocka Flame (@WakaFlockaBSM) March 27, 2013
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Dirk’s Back
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. Dirk Nowitzki Robert Mays: Well, don’t look now (actually, you probably should look), but the Mavericks are coming. Dallas is 10-4 in March, and with last night’s OT win against the Clips, the Mavs are a game behind the Lakers […]
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USMNT vs. Mexico: World Cup Qualifier Retro Diary
A 0-0 draw? At Azteca, the U.S. men’s national team — and Jurgen Klinsmann — will take it.
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Step Up Your Elephant-Passing Game, Derrick Rose
This was Robert Mays’s reaction to seeing this picture: “Eleven months later, Derrick, and you’re not even dunking off your left foot. RG3 is throwing passes to elephants, which, according to the Ringling Bros. dude who throws passes to elephants, is really hard.” Reggie Rose was not available to comment at press time.
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and American Novelist Meek Mill
Winter is coming! But, you know, not for another week. So while our hearts yearn for Westeros, Chris and I are stuck in rural Georgia with the rest of the Mensa candidates fighting zombies on The Walking Dead (8:25). It was interesting to hear how Chris, normally a defender of all things violent and brainless, has […]
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: John Wall Goes Electric
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. John Wall John Wall might be the best player in the NBA right now not named Kevin or LeBron. That should actually be an award: The M.V.P.N.N.K.L. Give that award to John Wall. Also, Ted Leonsis, fellow blogger, here’s a […]
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NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: Don’t Mess With Texas
A survey of the players and teams making moves in last night’s NBA action. 1. March Madness Usually, this is the time of the NBA season that I associate with tanking and resting stars. But for a variety of reasons, I feel like the league has a little bit of madness this month. Whether it’s […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Girls, Phil Spector, and Justin Timberlake
Forget Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant (you probably already did forget about her): Chris Ryan and I forged our own L.A. story this week. Reunited on the West Coast, we traded stories about rude airplane passengers and desperate, day-drinking directors before digging into the regular rotation, which included the soppy Girls finale, the problematic new […]
