Posts by Chris Ryan

  • Eat My Goal: Thierry Wonder Strike

    Titi! This is from today’s New York Red Bulls–Chicago Fire game. New York won the match, 1-0, off the back of this WONDER STRIKE from Thierry Henry, who clearly still has it (and by “it” I mean the ability to peel the bark off the goalpost with an all-laces shot). Henry wound up being taken […]

  • National Lampoon’s Manchester United South African Vacation

    Here’s Manchester United, in front of the Manchester United bus, taken on location at the beginning of the Manchester United summer tour of South Africa. These tours are very lucrative for the clubs who can afford to make them (Portsmouth, for instance, could not really afford their U.S. jaunt a few years ago). They also […]

  • Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Breaking Bad, The Dark Knight Rises, and Political Animals

    The Super Lab may have been destroyed, but that won’t stop Chris Ryan and me from getting back in our lab and cooking up some podcasts for our hungry audience. First up is the return of Breaking Bad (:50): We chop it up about the season premiere and what it means for the rest of […]

  • David Beckham and the Goal (Celebration) of the MLS Season

    Yo, check out David Beckham’s goal from Saturday night’s Galaxy-Timbers MLS match:

  • This Needs to Be the Official Team USA Portrait

    Oh, what’s up, Expendables? This is a still from Wednesday night’s ESPYS broadcast. One by one, shall we?

  • Nicknames of People Drew Brees Forgot to Thank at the ESPYS

    At the ESPYS on Wednesday night, Drew Brees won the award for Record-Breaking Performance of the Year and proceeded to break another record onstage during his acceptance speech. What record? The nickname record. Brees rattled off nicknames of trainers, coaches, and teammates — names like “Marky Mark” and “Baby Brontosaurus.” But time ran short and […]

  • Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings

    1. Hope Solo: God Forgives, Hope Don’t The USWNT goalkeeper was warned this week by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for testing positive for something called Canrenone, which I may or may have not had at Olive Garden last night, incidentally. She was basically like, “Cool warning.” Rem and I talked about this briefly. Rem: Am […]

  • What If Hockey Games Were Called by Soccer Announcers?

    This! This is what would happen if hockey were called by soccer announcers! Shouts to the Internet. (h/t Puck Daddy and Donnie Kwak (@KwakaFlocka).

  • This Opening to the 1982 MLB All-Star Game Is Pretty Great

    Right? This comes to us via noted Montreal enthusiast, helicopter photography expert, and connoisseur of ’80s television graphics (and occasional baseball dude) Jonah Keri. Take it away, Jonah: “It’s all here. Sweeping shots of the Montreal skyline. Glorious ’80s graphics. Al Michaels, impressively, correctly pronouncing MON-treal. It was a different time, too. Olympic Stadium was […]

  • Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Breaking Bad, Magic Mike, and the Killers

    This week on the Hollywood Prospectus podcast, Andy and I welcome back the creeping dread and heathen chemistry of Breaking Bad (3:55). Is this the best show on television right now? Well, it certainly is “right now” (sorry, Newsroom). But what is it that makes Vince Gilligan’s profoundly dark, very contemporary vision of teacher turned […]

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