Posts by Chris Ryan

  • The Reducer: Week 8, I Want to Go to Chelsea

    Juan Mata pulls the strings for the Blues, while United and Liverpool play the blame game.

  • Rankonia: The Triangle’s Power Rankings

    Welcome to the first edition of Rankonia, The Triangle’s power rankings. Usually these kinds of things celebrate team or individual excellence. We’re going another route here — we’re celebrating athletes, teams, and coaches whose performances, on or off the field, speak to us in a deep, profound way that we can only articulate through the […]

  • The Champions League Parallel Universe

    One of the great things about the UEFA Champions League is how it acts as a kind of alternative reality for players and teams. It’s almost like the island from Lost; a place where you can reinvent yourself and change your fortune, parallel to the league season you may want to forget.

  • 5 Reasons to Watch a World Series You Don’t Care About

    Cards on the table: The prospect of cheering for a team formerly owned by George W. Bush or a team that beat the team I actually cheer for is too daunting to contemplate. And watching four-hour baseball games full of situational pitching changes and Texas storm outbreaks without a rooting interest is even more depressing. […]

  • Can the Philadelphia Eagles Fly Right?

    To paraphrase the great Russian novelist and 46 defense pioneer Budski Ryanovich: All good football teams are alike; all bad football teams are bad in their own way. This is particularly applicable to the Philadelphia Eagles, who take a 1-4 record to Washington on Sunday in an NFC East clash with the Redskins. I don’t […]

  • Watch: Rajon Rondo No-Look Alley-oop to Kenneth Faried

    Rajon Rondo throwing a no-look alley-oop to Kenneth Faried during a stop on the State Farm Big Blue All-Stars Tour. If we ask really, really nicely WILL YOU PLEASE GIVE US AN NBA SEASON FOR THE LOVE OF NO-LOOK PASSES AND ONIONS?!! (hat tip: ProBasketballTalk) Follow Grantland on Twitter or check out Grantland’s Facebook page. […]

  • Ranking Raps: The Top Ten BET Award Cypher Verses

    The best thing about this year’s BET Awards (and, for that matter, every year’s BET Awards) were the interstitial cypher videos featuring some of the best, brightest, newest and most forgotten (Lady of Rage!) names in hip-hop. We processed and parsed the 32 verses, spread out over seven clips, and came up with this ranking of […]

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    The Reducer: Week 7, Arsenal Keeps Breaking Bad

    The players and the fans made sure the North London derby got good and ugly.

  • Wrapping Up Euro Qualifiers and International Soccer Friendlies

    Tuesday saw a ton of international football action, as European nations wrapped up the initial qualifying stages for the Euro 2012 Finals and non-Euro national teams played some high-profile friendlies. So fire up “Sweet Georgia Brown” and let’s do some globe-trotting, shall we?

  • Must-Read of the Day: The Boston Globe on the Fall of the Red Sox

    Red Sox fans, did you think the worst thing you’d read today would be about Theo Epstein and the Chicago Cubs? You were wrong! The Boston Globe’s Bob Hohler gives us an epic postmortem on one of the greatest collapses in MLB history. Behold tales of Red Sox clubhouse freeze-outs (Jacoby Ellsbury!), players obsessed with […]

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