When she scored against Japan in the championship last year, I made a comment on Facebook about having an Alex Morgasm.  Those were simpler times, before she was discovered by the folks over on the ESPN comment boards.

On the other hand, Leroux got a corner after she kicked the ball over the end line, then kicked it back in where it hit an opponent before bouncing out again.  As you noted, there were a lot of questionable calls that went both ways.  Tancredi in particular is a great player, but yesterday the ref let her get away…

On the other hand, Leroux got a corner after she kicked the ball over the end line, then kicked it back in where it hit an opponent before bouncing out again.  As you noted, there were a lot of questionable calls that went both ways.  Tancredi in particular is a great player, but yesterday the ref let her get away…

Yellow cards are routinely given to goalies who waste time at the end of games.  The main difference between the typical call and this one is that the goalie wasted time while the ball was in play, rather than, as is more normal, frequently readjusting the placement of a ball before taking a goal kick.  In the latter…

Yellow cards are routinely given to goalies who waste time at the end of games.  The main difference between the typical call and this one is that the goalie wasted time while the ball was in play, rather than, as is more normal, frequently readjusting the placement of a ball before taking a goal kick.  In the latter…

Chastain was doing the color commentary, not Foudy.

Chastain was doing the color commentary, not Foudy.

You can't spell "invoked" without "volksgemeinschaft."  At least not in Hitler's Germany.  Incidentally, "Hitler Enjoys Being In Volksgemeinschaft" is perhaps the best title for a porn movie that absolutely should not exist.

You can't spell "invoked" without "volksgemeinschaft."  At least not in Hitler's Germany.  Incidentally, "Hitler Enjoys Being In Volksgemeinschaft" is perhaps the best title for a porn movie that absolutely should not exist.

The OED notes a usage from a century earlier: "Harper's Mag. (1883) Apr. 720/2   One might thrust a pike down to the butt-head"—but that's a reference to something different.  There's also a passage from a newspaper from 1977 which talks about a goat named "Ol' Butthead ."  By 1987 there was a kicker on the Chicago…

I'm going to toss you a "like," but also point out that you played it wrong.  What you should have written was something like, "His sex ed talk with Sam was the first time I realized his character on Freaks and Geeks would actually have three dimensions, and not be just a two-dimensional caricature."  That way you…

It is weird when reviewers get hung up on such issues of verisimilitude.  I don't recall complaints about how Justified presents a small town in Kentucky with a murder rate which is, not just per capita, but in absolute terms, on par with major metropolises, or how Breaking Bad expects viewers to embrace a world in…

That was my immediate thought when I saw this.  There are four core studio albums. You can cover their entire repertoire in about 3.5 hours, significantly less if you don't care to listen to all of "Sister Ray."

Trace was a teacher, biology I think.  When Maureen first appears, she's brought to his class in the middle of a lecture about evolution.  There's a knock on the classroom door, and Trace's teacher says something like, "Why, that could be Mr. Darwin now."  The geeks look utterly confused by his comment, then, of…

More likely, Hank, frustrated with his inability to find Heisenberg, begins to manipulate the scenes of OD deaths to make them look like the work of a serial killer.  This leads Walt and Jesse to flee the state, but Jesse, having relapsed into drug use, wrecks the car and injures himself gravely.  Walt takes the…

He should do a Grosse Pointe Blank prequel with Jeremy Piven.  Piven already looks younger than he did in Grosse Pointe Blank, so they're halfway there.

"nobody ever accused Psych of being a trailblazing show"

ER lived about a decade too long for its own good, in terms of reputation.  The first couple of seasons still hold up as excellent television, I expect, and the one where Green kills Bradley Whitford's wife in a botched childbirth likely remains an all-time classic for any drama series.  I'd argue the show peaked with…

@avclub-717729ce391c20ef3e722c3e6ef79a58:disqus Didn't Mr. Drummond also berate the street performer for frightening the boys by having a seizure in front of them?  I have a vague recollection of that, plus a joke about milk shakes.

I don't remember that one.  I remember when Arnold and Sam spent five minutes making jokes about the epileptic street performer they'd somehow befriended who had a seizure in front of them.  Damn, that show could be unpleasant, but I just kept watching it, not even ironically.