Posts by Chris Ryan
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Premier League Top Five: Pleased to Michu
1. Law of the Jungle It can all feel a bit dirty sometimes; all the transfers and transfer rumors and players going on strike and managers bemoaning that behavior (when they aren’t, themselves, tapping up players from other teams). It’s very easy to look at European football simply in terms of predators and prey, and […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Tony Scott, The Expendables 2, Breaking Bad, and Hot Cheetos
The Hollywood Prospectus podcast began on a somber note this week, as Chris Ryan and I discussed the life and legacy of one of our favorite filmmakers, Tony Scott. Scott took his own life over the weekend (on Monday evening, when we recorded, there were news reports that Scott was suffering from inoperable brain cancer, […]
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That’ll Do, NFL Preseason, That’ll Do
Oh! His X-rays are negative!? Is this what it feels like to become a father, guys?! This joy I’m feeling!? Look, I’m the world’s second-biggest Nick Foles fan. (Mays really likes Nick Foles.) (Actually, I’m sure there are, like, a baker’s dozen of people who are bigger Nick Foles fans than me.) (I’m in a […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Talking TV with Parks and Rec’s Retta
Like nearly anything of consequence in this crazy world of ours, this podcast is a result of Twitter. A few months ago, between setups for her role as Donna, the self-treating, Mercedes-owning man-eater of Parks and Recreation, actress and comedienne extraordinaire Retta took to the world’s most awesome/aggravating social media platform to tweet about TV. […]
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We Were Just Starting to Miss Russell Westbrook and James Harden
And then they go and decide to be the best.
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Does Chris Paul Live at Downton Abbey?
This is a photo of a sign greeting Chris Paul, who has just returned to the United States of America one gold medal richer. Where Bates at? [via jada_ap/Instagram]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: The Bourne Legacy, Breaking Bad, Seven Psychopaths, and More
Today on the Hollywood Prospectus Podcast, Andy and I are Bourne again (:30). Longtime fans of the Jason Bourne franchise, we were pleasantly surprised to find the series in the capable, wolf-punching hands of Jeremy Renner. But should there ever have been any doubt? After all, The Bourne Legacy was written and directed by one […]
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Nobody Told Kevin Love There Would Be Dancing
This will kick-start your heart.
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27-Day Warning: This Guy Is a Redskins Fan
Football, football, football, football, football, football, football.
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Lowering the Batum: An Anthology of Basketball Crotch Shots
Today, at the end of the men’s basketball quarterfinal between France and Spain (which Spain won, 66-59), French forward Nicolas Batum landed the nut shot heard round the world on Spain’s Juan-Carlos Navarro. After the game, Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski asked Batum, who makes his money playing for Portland, why he went south of the border […]
