Posts by Chris Ryan
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The Reducer, Week 32: City’s a Sucker
City blows it, United walks away with it, and Everton makes its move.
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Too Zeke to Fail: A Brief History of Isiah Thomas’s Crashes and Burns
Isiah Thomas was fired Friday as coach at Florida International University. Here’s what Zeke had to say about his departure from Miami’s first and only four-year public research university: “This is the most surprising thing that has happened to me in basketball. I never been fired before for basketball reasons. This is the first time. When […]
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Pledge Allegiance to Gronk Nation
You never really know what you’re going to get with an athlete’s “official site.” Sometimes you get a really nuanced, emotionally transparent view into the soul of the man (like with Andrew Bynum’s blog). Sometimes you get exciting opportunities to buy official NHL gear, like the street bazaar that is BrianUrlacher.com. Then you get something […]
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Dwight Howard and the Art of Cool
The reason LeBron James took such an L after he made The Decision wasn’t so much because of where he decided to play as it was about how he conducted himself while making the announcement. Simply put: It was corny. A faux-casual/faux-altruistic setting, a rigid line delivery that made it seem like he had been […]
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Stan Van Gundy Diet Pepsi Can Power Rankings
Stan Van Gundy and Dwight Howard starred in what might be the most cringe-worthy impromptu press conference of the NBA season on Thursday. But you know who, or more accurately what, stole the show? Stan Van Gundy’s Diet Pepsi can.
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Bill Murray Is Still the Best
Here’s Bill Murrary running the bases on Opening Day at Wrigley Field on Thursday. Welcome back, baseball.
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Why Was Gregg Williams Quoting Memoirs of a Geisha?
You know what’s crazy about the audio of Gregg Williams’s pregame speech that was released to the media today? Everything. It’s pretty crazy. You know what is funny about it, though? For all the “kill the head and the body will die,” Brando at the end of Apocalypse Now, and tribal nonsense Williams told the […]
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Tip Your Cap to This New Era Ad
“Once you get north of Division Street, you might as well be in Wisconsin.” This is Parks and Recreation‘s Nick Offerman and The Office‘s Craig Robinson arguing about the virtues of their respective Chicago baseball teams for a New Era hats ad campaign. It is pretty great. The only thing that could have made it […]
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Josh Hamilton and the Art of Negotiating
Gail Mazur once wrote, “Baseball holds so much of the past, pulls me back to it each year, to the soothing unclocked unrolling of the innings, to the sound of an announcer through an open car in May …” That’s beautiful, right? Now pay Josh Hamilton.
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Way to Curb Your Enthusiasm, Clippers
On Wednesday night, the Clippers and Lakers square off at Staples Center for their final regular-season matchup. Last time the two teams faced each other, Pau Gasol touched Chris Paul’s head, Chris Paul got mad, Pau Gasol was like, “Be easy, in Spain it is a sign of condescending affection,” Charles Oakley was like, “CAN […]