Posts by Chris Ryan
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Direwolves, Fat Betty, and Soggy Detectives
April is the start of television’s playoff season, the month when big-ticket contenders return to reclaim past glories and season-long survivors attempt to finish out the year strong. So it’s an all-TV edition of the podcast this week as Chris and I go direwolf hunting with Game of Thrones (1:00), kill The Killing (15:40), and […]
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Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings
1. Austin Rivers, Snapbacks Back David Cho, arguably the second-best-dressed man in the Grantland office, chimes in with this fashion trend watch: “In case you haven’t been keeping tabs on the sartorial decisions of Jay-Z, LeBron James, and a handful of other rich friends of Kanye West, there’s been a headwear trend that’s slowly spent […]
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Champions League Retro Diary III: Barcelona-AC Milan!
Brian Phillips and Chris Ryan return for the Champions League quarterfinals second leg. On Tuesday, they watched as Barcelona beat AC Milan 3-1. Chris: Brian! Once more unto the breach, am I right? Cry havoc and unleash Isaac Cuenca. At least that’s what Pep Guardiola says. (He totally says that.) The Catalonian youngster is starting […]
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Justified, Season 3, Episode 12
I think we knew from about, um, the fourth second, with the Oxy-fueled threesome, that “Coalition” was going to get a little dirty. “Check me out, all gangsta and shit.” Indeed.
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The Reducer, Week 31: Imperfect 10s
Celebrating the mercurial talents of four of the Premier League’s magical playmakers.
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‘Like Me, Rick Adelman Is a Handsome Man’
The Timberwolves, especially before Ricky Rubio went down with a season-ending knee injury, were one of the most exciting and entertaining young teams in the NBA. Assuming the Spanish maestro comes back next season to join the double-double machine that is Kevin Love, the walking Direwolf that is Nik Pekovic, the high-flying antics of Anthony […]
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Andrei Arshavin, Critic of Women’s Driving, Gets In (Minor) Car Accident
Andrei Arshavin might have taken his brilliant-passing/non-hustling talents back to Mother Russia, but that didn’t make him any less amusing. Back in 2009, the magic-passing/non-hustling playmaker gave a misguided if hilarious interview in which he said the following: “If I had it in my power to introduce a ban on women driving cars and to […]
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Sergio Aguero Hurt His Foot Trying to Imitate Tony Jaa
That is not true. But since Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini would “prefer not to say” why his star striker injured his foot, forcing the Argentine to miss last weekend’s match with Stoke, this weekend’s clash with Sunderland, and possibly even the following game with the hottest team in the Premier Leauge, Arsenal, I am […]
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Jennifer Lawrence Was in the Front Row for Blake Griffin’s Perk Postering
Remember back when Blake Griffin wrote a mid-air obituary for Kendrick Perkins with the above dunk? Go to around the :10 mark, hit pause. See that girl in the lower left-hand corner of the frame, with the “OMGWTFROTFLBLAKEGRIFFINKSURFACETOAIRRIPPERK” look on her face? Yo! That’s Katniss!
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How’s That $1 Billion Resort Coming, Real Madrid?
You see that hotel right there? That’s the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai. It’s got seven stars. I didn’t even know you could get seven stars. It’s located on an artificial island, and has a restaurant that sits 660 feet in the air and rooms that cost $27,000 per night. And it’s going to […]
