Posts by Jay Caspian Kang
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Marry/F@#$/Kill: A Tribe Called Quest
Beats Rhymes & Life, Michael Rapaport’s documentary on Linden Boulevard’s most famous hip-hop act, opens across America this Friday. We thought we’d take the opportunity to weigh in on all five albums.
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Can I Write Check?
In the second of a two-part reflection, Jay Caspian Kang examines the cultural impact of Yao Ming’s career.
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The 2011 YouTube Draft
We spent hours on YouTube to bring you the 2011 NBA draft, based entirely on highlight videos.
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Dunking Ninja Monarchs
Where does The Dunking Ninja go from here? He’s already demolished the Deron Williams hot-girlfriend-moment from the 2005 Draft, given himself a race-bending nickname to go along with his race-bending game and masculinized “Jan.” By declaring that Blake Griffin was “the American Jan Vesely,” he topsy-turvied Mark Jones for thinking in such a simplistic, USA-centric […]
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Immigrant Misappropriations: The Importance of Ichiro
Ten years after Ichiro Suzuki broke into the majors, a reflection on the 2001 Mariners, Jackie Robinson, the Four Noble Truths and the cultural impact of baseball’s most enigmatic player
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A Man Alone: Dirk vs. the Heat
Two views on Dirk Nowitzki’s run through the 2011 NBA Playoffs.
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A Boring Conundrum: LeBron’s Exquisite Corpse
LeBron’s latest disappearing act surprised no one. Have we already lost our desire to figure out why it happened?
