Posts by Chris Ryan

  • Hit & Run: Wild Card Traffic Jam

    Here’s your Friday baseball news long toss covering stories on and off the field. According to ESPN’s Jayson Stark, baseball officials are twisting themselves into knots over the long, languid, Darwinian regular season possibly ending with a three-team demolition derby in the American League wild card race. If the Rays, Red Sox and Angels wind […]

  • The Reducer: Week 4, We Are Big, It’s the League That Got Small

    Everton and Aston Villa pull themselves together.

  • The Eagles And Giants Start With Opening Remarks

    Dunta Robinson’s helmet-to-helmet hit on Eagles wide receiver Jeremy Maclin cost the Atlanta Falcons cornerback $40,000 and probably killed whatever personal appearance prospects he had in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area for the rest of the man’s time on earth. It also might have woken up the Eagles, just in time for their inter-division clash with […]

  • Hope Solo

    Q&A: Dancing With the Stars’ Hope Solo Sizes Up Her Competition

    This summer we all fell in love with the U.S. women’s national soccer team as we cheered them on through their nail-biting run to the Women’s World Cup final. And perhaps no player from that team captured the country’s imagination like goalkeeper Hope Solo, who next week will tango her way back onto our TV […]

  • Q&A: Drive Stunt Coordinator Darrin Prescott

    Nicolas Wending Refn’s Drive is about a stunt driver by day, getaway driver by night played by Ryan Gosling. Among its many recommendable qualities (the performances, Refn’s visual virtuosity, bringing back toothpicks and satin jackets) are the film’s fully analog car chases and stunts. So who was responsible for Drive‘s action? Meet stunt coordinator Darrin […]

  • Champions League: Match Day 1 Wrap-Up

    Like getting through a gorgeous wedding ceremony only to find out the reception has no open bar, the first matches of the UEFA Champions League group stages start with a lot of pageantry and wonder, only to be brought back to sobering reality.

  • Hit & Run: ‘I’m Not Okay (I Promise)’ As Sung By K-Rod

    Here’s your Wednesday baseball news long toss covering stories on and off the field. The Brewers have perhaps lost a little of the SWAT Team swagger, have lost five of their last seven games. And while Tony La Russa will make sure the Cardinals won’t make up ground in the National League Central standings, the […]

  • Never Mind the NBA Lockout: Here’s a Jonas Valanciunas Tribute Rap

    So! Awesome news, NBA fans! According to reports on Twitter, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association has said: “We’ve advised (players) they may have to sit out half the season before we get a deal.” Cool. We were not looking to repeat the absolute magic that was the NBA 2010-11 season. Definitely […]

  • The Huddle: Tuesday Afternoon Football Edition

    Here’s your Tuesday whip-around on the stories dominating coming out of last night’s Monday Night Football games. No pads needed. The New England Patriots are Robert Sean Leonard in Dead Poets Society and Bill Belichick is their dad. The Pats beat the Dolphins, in Miami, 38-24 in a game that felt a lot less competitive […]

  • Nyjer Morgan

    Tony La Russa Is Going To Need Your Gun And Your Badge, Nyjer Morgan

    Wednesday night, the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0, putting the Cards 8 ½ games behind the Brewers in the NL Central. But the real story, as it usually is in games involving the SWAT Team, was Nyjer Morgan. St. Louis starter Chris Carpenter struck Morgan out in the top of the ninth. […]

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