Posts by Chris Ryan

  • My Aim Is True: Justified Season 3, Episode 1

    You’d think for someone who had shot as many sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, and dickheads as Raylan Givens has, he wouldn’t really worry too much about the precise direction of his bullets; they always seem to find their targets. But early on in “The Gunfighter,” the first episode of Justified‘s third season, […]

  • The Shootaround: NBA News, Notes and A Sort Of Homecoming

    You Can’t Go Home Again Obviously Thomas Wolfe, writer of the novel from which our little sub-hed borrows its name, never met Kendrick Perkins or Lamar Odom. This is largely due to the fact that he died in 1938. But let’s say he had lived to see Perk and Lamar return to their old stomping […]

  • The Office

    Grantland Network Podcast: TV Prospectus

    Andy Greenwald writes about TV for Grantland. Fellow staffer Chris Ryan has a TV. So what better way for the two friends to spend a Tuesday morning than recording a podcast about the small screen? Listen now as they discuss the problems with The Office (and NBC in general), the horrors of Whitney and Chelsea, […]

  • Paul Millsap

    The Shootaround: NBA News, Notes, and the Jazz (We’ve Got)

    This Weekend’s the Weekend To Watch the Best Division in Basketball … As someone who — from the time he learned to talk to when he moved away from home — consistently referred to every single place outside of Philadelphia as “down there,” be it “down” the Jersey Shore, “down” Lima, Peru, or “down” Boston, […]

  • Steven Gerrard

    Liverpool Gets Under Man City’s Skin

    It was the first leg of the Carling Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Manchester City, held at Etihad Stadium. It was a game of two halves. And frankly, both of them were a bit dull. So why am I breathing into a brown paper bag in anticipation of the return leg at Anfield?

  • The Shootaround: NBA News, Notes, and Revived Atlantic Division Rivalries

    Tonight’s The Night For … Knicks-Sixers! In Philadelphia, you get your cheesesteaks wiz wit and you get your sports with hate. When you’re not hating on Andy Reid, Juan Castillo, Raul Ibanez’s peanut brittle frame, Brad Lidge’s satanic soul patch, or the ghost of Donovan McNabb, you’re hating on the New York Giants, the Atlanta […]

  • Demaryius Thomas

    Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings

    1. Lionel Messi, Best Athlete in the World We dole out a lot of false praise in Rankonia. So understand that I’m saying this with the intensity of 1,000 Daniel Day-Lewises: Lionel Messi is the best athlete alive right now. Last season, he scored 51 goals for Barcelona and Argentina in the 2010-11 season. He’s […]

  • The Shootaround: NBA News, Notes, Quotes and Andray Blatche Leadership Techniques

    What happened last night, what’s happening tonight, who said what and what you should read. All here in your afternoon NBA Shootaround …

  • The Three Lions vs. Saints Games You Meet in Heaven

    On Saturday night, the Detroit Lions play the New Orleans Saints. I’ve got my baby carrots and Nicorette lozenges, which translates to me being really excited. Why the hyped-up state when I have no rooting or gambling interest? Well, you know how people say football is a results-oriented business? You know how people say that […]

  • How Demba Ba and Newcastle Rocked Manchester United

    Wayne Rooney was back from Siberia (AKA: the doghouse), Rio Ferdinand was back from the couch (AKA: watching darts), David De Gea was banished to the bench and Newcastle was primed for a winter-long slump. What could possibly go wrong for Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United on Wednesday? Oh, pretty much everything. Or, to […]

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