All my favorites had Stuart Scott in them. Dude was born to be in front of a camera: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Also gave us one of my favorite Sportscenter commercials: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I understand everything you're writing and still cannot wrap my mind around being offered a billion dollars ($250 million each, I guess) and turning it down. Like, I've worked with people I absolutely despise for $7.25 an hour, so I'm honestly having trouble thinking of what I wouldn't do for a billion.

Jason Statham. I'm 100% serious here: I honestly believe that there isn't an actor alive with a deeper and more consistently entertaining filmography since he started working.

Same here. I didn't even know how much I liked him until I checked his filmography after Inside Llewyn Davis and saw how many of his roles I'd enjoyed without realizing it was him.

I'll second Aspalls. I've also enjoyed pretty much every Crispin cider I've tried.

Honest question: isn't it easier and tastier to just drink hard cider?

Reading the book made me appreciate the movie even more– Ellroy's plot is so convoluted and has so many moving parts it's incredible the movie works as well as it does while still keeping the general feel of the original.

Escobar's cultural relevance and enduring popularity can't be matched, but there are more than enough cartel stories for however many seasons Netflix wants to keep going. The Cali Cartel's story is great in its own right, and the shift of power to Mexican Cartels (Guadalajara, Gulf, Sinaloa, and Los Zetas, at various…

I still feel like this season got a little too cute at times and would've benefited from a tighter focus (like maybe just the final few weeks of the search or something) but it was always entertaining and I'm really gonna miss watching Wagner Moura hike up his pants. I also appreciate that they got out of their own…

Speak for yourself, dude

Simon Pegg's delivery of "I like it!" is outstanding. And come on, Love Spreads is good enough to almost redeem the whole thing.

I get that having Tata come down out the lobby of the hotel to see Valeria's dead body makes for a better scene, but it was pretty jarring watching somebody who's supposed to be under protective custody wandering around like that. They went out of their way to show security in front of her room, then she's able to…

The sounds like something I'd want to check out. Also, Edgar Allen Poe wrote The Murders in the Rue Morgue 20 years earlier; I'd always heard that those were considered the first detective stories, but Wikipedia differentiates between short stories and novels so I guess we're both right.

Midway through Blood Meridian, which is ok, I guess. I respect McCarthy's style but after 200 pages of violence followed by travel through the Mexican desert followed by more violence I'm starting to zone out a bit. These descriptions of the wilderness were alright at first but now they're verging on self-parody. I…

Really? It was kinda the opposite for me– I thought Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was really well-structured and has a memorable and interesting main character but Da Vinci Code had me rolling my eyes. I thought Angels and Demons was better.

Wait, for real? Greg Roman wasn't coaching a D that gave up 37 points to Ryan Fitzgerald!

Whatever Fisher's agent is making, it's not enough. If he really is about to sign a contract extension, Fisher's gotta have compromising photos of Stan Kroenke sans toupee.

I'm convinced MAYA would've had a better critical reception if M.I.A. hadn't come off so terribly in that high-profile New York Times piece that came out a few weeks before the album dropped.

There was a moment when people were wondering if he was closeted and using "Lennay Kekua" as a fictional beard, and part of me still thinks that makes more sense than what he claimed happened. All the interviews he did once the story broke did nothing to clear stuff up. Such a weird story.