Posts by Chris Ryan

  • Emo Rap All-Stars: On Drake and Donald Glover

    Chris Ryan: One of my favorite scenes in The Departed happens when Leonardo DiCaprio visits Vera Farmiga in her apartment. They do the therapist-and-the-raw-nerve dance for a few minutes while “Comfortably Numb” plays in the background; she talks about moving in with her boyfriend, he listens. At one point she says, “Your vulnerability is really […]

  • Aaron Lennon

    The Reducer: Week 11, Catch Us If You Can

    Tottenham Hotspur are off to the races.

  • NBA Lockout: NBA Nuclear Winter Reading List

    Abandon all hope ye who enter here. But don’t abandon your reading glasses. This is terrible; the labor dispute between the NBA and its players is now moving out of the negotiating room and into the court room. Grantland has been covering the NBA lockout pretty much since the site launched. So we’ve put together […]

  • Watch The USS Carl Vinson Turn Into A Basketball Gym

    Tonight, in honor of Veterans Day, in front of an audience that will include President Obama, two college basketball superpowers, Michigan State and North Carolina, will square off on the USS Carl Vinson in the 2011 Carrier Classic. That’s right, the Spartans and the Heels are gonna get some run on the deck of a […]

  • Dennis Pitta and Ryan Clark

    Don’t Fear The Reaper: In Defense Of Ryan Clark

    “Oh, that guy is dead.” I say that pretty much every time I watch the Steelers play. Almost without fail, it comes after Pittsburgh safety Ryan Clark has blown up an opposing receiver. Sometimes the opposing player gets up quickly. Sometimes slowly. And sometimes, as in the case with Willis McGahee in the 2009 AFC […]

  • Joe Paterno, Board of Trustees

    Penn State Scandal: Last Night in Happy Valley

    Here’s a timeline and link dump covering all the activity that took place in State College, Pennsylvania, late Wednesday night. We’ll update throughout the day if the story continues to develop. At about 10:15 p.m. EST last night, the Penn State Board of Trustees announced that head football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham […]

  • Jones

    Rankonia: The Triangle Power Rankings

    1. Julio Jones, Atlanta Falcons Nobody is going to call the Colts stiff competition (or competition, really), but Julio Jones played Sunday like a robot sent from the future to destroy us all. His falling catch in triple coverage is not something humans should be able to do. 2. Andre3000, rapper Just so we’re all clear […]

  • LeSean McCoy

    The Color Purple Descends on the Eagles Season

    I would absolutely love to write a semi-objective piece about Monday night’s showdown between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears. I’d like nothing more than to celebrate the game as a nationally televised coming out party for Matt Forte and LeSean McCoy (LESEAN MCCOY), the two best running backs currently playing in the NFL. Unfortunately, […]

  • Robin van Persie

    The Reducer: Week 10, Happiness Is a Warm Gun

    Arsenal shocks Chelsea in a contest that had every subplot imaginable to make it the runaway pick as the match of the season
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  • Is This the Greatest Dodgeball Move of All Time?

    Go to 1:25 for one of the great displays of athletic talent you will likely see all year. This sport has evidently advanced from the days when I used to play it holding one hand over my private parts and praying that I wouldn’t get my nose broken. This kid needs to be in Cirque […]

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