Posts by Chris Ryan
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Family Reunion at Georgia–South Carolina Game Will Make Your Heart Explode
Watch this. I’d explain it, but you should probably just watch it. Then you’re probably going to want to hug someone nearby. Then go read the first comment on this YouTube thread: “Tiger fan here. Hats off to this and everyone who serve our country. UGA could have used the wife in the game with […]
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Baseball Playoffs Play-In Games Preview for (or By) Morons
There are plenty of places you can read thoughtful or funny previews of the Major League Baseball playoffs. This is not one of them. If you read any of the epic preview pieces by Jonah Keri or Rany Jazayerli and thought, “Hmmm … good stuff. But I need this to be a lot more stupid […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Looper and Homeland’s Season Premiere
On today’s Hollywood Prospectus Podcast, Andy and I are united in the studio but divided on the subject of Rian Johnson’s new sci-fi mind-bender, Looper (2:15). It’s not like oceans of time separate us, but let’s put it this way: The order of people who love this movie definitely goes like this: (1) China, (2) […]
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Kobe Bryant Lets a Little Kid Beat Him at Basketball
Doesn’t this warm your heart? You know what else warms the heart? The idea that this little kid grows up and enters the NBA, with hope in his heart. With love in his heart. AND THEN KOBE BRYANT COMES OUT OF RETIREMENT AND PUTS 65 POINTS ON HIM AND MAKES HIM RETIRE AND MOVE TO […]
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A Roger Goodell–as–Vince McMahon GIF That Perfectly Sums Up the Week
TGIF. This comes to us from a reader named Chris from Buffalo (via Fantasy Football Fools).
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Quick Question: Are These Trick Shots Real?
I don’t want to come off as a guy who thinks Avatar is a documentary or anything. It’s just hard to tell. This comes to us via Chuck Klosterman, who longingly wondered if “something happened with computers I don’t know about.” There is some kind of industrial light and magic happening here. But maybe it’s […]
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Evan Turner Is Interning at Men’s Health
Oh, Evan. (1) Maybe stay off Rondo’s corners? (2) NBA training camp starts October 8.
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Goldengate Goes Beyond Thunderdome With Carly Rae Jepsen Parody Video
That is quick work, Seth Haake. Very quick work. (h/t, KFAN FM in Minneapolis)
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: The Emmys, the Return of The Office and Parks and Recreation, and More
On today’s pod, Andy and I would like to thank Brad and Brad over at WME, the writers’ room, our hair and makeup people who make us look beautiful every day, and our long-suffering wives … oh, sorry, I was having another one of my “episodes.” Let’s try that again. On today’s pod, Andy and […]
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Goldengate Grab Bag: Golden’s Tweets, Pete Carroll Says ‘Hallelujah,’ Marshall Newhouse Would Like You to Repeat the Question
I would love to give you another takeaway about labor unions, perception, and fairness right now, but I got a little lost down a ShowtimeTate Twitter hole. ShowtimeTate is the handle for Golden Tate, the Seattle wide receiver who is now at the center of one of the biggest officiating controversies in modern sports history. […]
