Posts by Chris Ryan

  • Andrea Pirlo

    The Reducer: All the Negatives Have Been Destroyed

    Attacking trumps defensive conservatism in the Euro 2012 quarterfinals.

  • Euro 2012: Luis Figo Has The Goal Celebration of the Tournament So Far

    Here’s Portuguese football legend Luis Figo, sitting next to Portuguese football legend Eusebio, at Thursday’s Portugal-Czech Republic quarterfinals clash in Warsaw. And here’s Luis Figo and Eusebio right after Cristiano Ronaldo’s rather definitive headed winner in the 79th minute:

  • The Triangle Podcast: NBA Finals and Euro 2012

    This week on the Triangle Podcast, Robert Mays, my NBA Shootaround brother in arms, joins me to talk about everything NBA Finals-related. We chatted about the pace at which the Thunder play and the almost celestial level at which LeBron James seems to be operating. The main thing we took out of this conversation? We’re […]

  • Euro 2012 Quarterfinals Preview

    Czech Republic vs. Portugal How They Got Here: Portugal pulled off the unlikely feat — or what seemed an unlikely feat before the tournament — of making it out of Group B, the Group of Death. After a fairly close loss to Germany, 1-0, Paulo Bento’s side got a game-winning goal against Denmark from little-known […]

  • Dwyane Wade Pays Homage to Dwayne Wayne

    There’s only one appropriate reaction to this:

  • Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: The Killing, Girls, The Master, and Drake

    With the good Sunday-night shows off the air, it was time for Chris Ryan and me to strap on our galoshes and deal with the bad one: The Killing (1:05) was (mercifully?) killed this past weekend, and I hope you’ll forgive us if we did not speak kindly of the dead. Instead, we spent some […]

  • Mario Balotelli

    Euro 2012: Free Mario Balotelli!

    Or at least let him speak his mind! On Monday, the Italian striker scored his second-ever goal for Italy, roasting Ireland defender John O’Shea with a volleyed hit to put Italy up, 2-0, on Ireland, in stoppage time, and secure their passage to the Euro 2012 quarterfinals out of Group C.

  • Listen to This Portuguese Announcer Melt Down Over Cristiano Ronaldo’s Second Goal Against Holland (Features Lasers)

    You know what play-by-play sports commentary needs more of? LASERS. Here’s a Portuguese announcer Nuno Metas’s reaction to Cristiano Ronaldo’s game-winning, 74th-minute goal against Holland. The 2-1 victory over the Dutch, and Germany’s defeat of Denmark in the other Group B match of the day, sent Portugal through to the quarterfinals. This guy sounds like […]

  • Team photo

    NBA Finals Playthrough: Heat-Thunder

    Everything ends. I think I saw that on a poster for one of The Matrix sequels, but it’s especially true here. We’ve come to the end of the NBA season, which means we’ve also come to the end of Anthony Richardson’s wonder-filled NBA Playoffs playthroughs. Over the past few months, “via the magic of computer […]

  • Grantland Exclusive: Inventor of Eyeglasses Weighs In on LeBron-Westbrook Specs Debate

    It’s been what feels like four score and seven years, but we finally had an off-day in the NBA on Wednesday as the Heat and the Thunder went back to their corners, albeit briefly. And man did we get some real off-day-type news. There were revelations aplenty. Dwyane Wade told an assembled media horde that […]

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