Posts by Chris Ryan
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Zambia Beats Ivory Coast in Africa Cup of Nations Final
Do you believe in miracles? No, me neither. But sometimes sports gets awfully close to changing my mind. Let me tell you about the Chipolopolo, Zambia’s national football team, which just won the country’s first-ever Africa Cup of Nations tournament on Sunday. Zambia beat Ivory Coast on penalties, 8-7. This was an Ivory Coast side […]
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The Shootaround: NBA News, Notes, and Happy Hour With Kobe Bryant
This Bud’s for You If you fire up the highlights of Thursday night’s Lakers-Celtics overtime clash, you will hear the words, “Mickael Pietrus going to work for the Celtics,” over video of the aforementioned Pietrus attempting what would have been a game-winning 3 and hitting someone eating beer nuts at a bar in Lynnfield. That […]
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The Shootaround: NBA News, Notes, and LeBron James Ruins Everything
Haters Wish LeBron James is not the Incredible Hulk or Tupac. He does not thrive on hate. He is not fueled by rage. I don’t think he’s fueled by love, either. He plays basketball like an Apache helicopter and bites his nails. We’re not going to know what basketball means to this guy until the […]
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Attention, Tebowing: Time to Bow to Bradying
I’m sure Tom Brady is going to take a ton of solace from the fact that the image of him sitting on the Lucas Oil turf, in a state of total dejection and disappointment, has become an Internet meme, which people in offices, outside of elevators, and pretty much everywhere else you can imagine (as […]
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The Shootaround: NBA News, Notes, and Wall vs. Lin II
Will Jeremy Hit the Wall? You could say cheering for the Washington Wizards requires a sense of humor this season. If this is true, it means Grantland contributor, semiregular B.S. Report guest, and longtime/long-suffering Wizards fan Joe House is basically the basketball fan version of the second season of Chappelle’s Show.
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Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings
1. Mario Manningham, Hands At the risk of ostracizing myself from my employer and my hometown, I am giving this week’s Rankonia scepter to Mario Manningham. I can’t believe I am about to write these two words about a New York Football Giant: Nice. Catch.
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Runners-up: Justified Season 3, Episode 4
“Devil You Know” was one of the more formally fascinating episodes I’ve seen the Justified creative team pull off; not because anything spectacular went down, but because of the depth it lent a group of characters that had previously been forced out to the margins. This episode was about, among other things, Dickie, Devil, and […]
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The Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: Greenwald and Ryan on TV
Old pals and avid TV watchers Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan return for a second edition of their small-screen-centered podcast. Topics broached this time around include Smash, Luck, Downton Abbey, whether horror can play on television, and if NBC is still cool — and why that does or doesn’t matter. Greenwald and Ryan would also […]
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The Shootaround: NBA News, Notes, and Just Give Me a Sixth Ring, Damn It
Round of Applause At this point in my life, I am honestly more into Kobe Bryant as an interview subject than as a basketball player. I appreciate how we’re back into Kobe-as-performance-artist territory. I’m sure they are studying his newest piece, If I Don’t Get to Play With Chris Paul I Am Going to Attempt […]
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JaVale McGee Revolutionizes Defense
Che Guevara. Lech Walesa. Abbie Hoffman. What do these men have in common? They were all, in their own ways, revolutionaries. Now we can add Washington Wizards center and undisputed people’s champion JaVale McGee to that esteemed list. What did McGee do now? Oh, not much, just completely changed the way we will look at […]
