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Blowing up everything and taking nothing off the table was the best hope. When there are well-paid layers to an existing structure, that was never going to realistically happen.

The 14 year olds who’ve been kept in the training dungeon since birth and are living out the fantasies of creeptastic middle age male “coaches” are hard to watch. This shit is refreshing.

maybe he’ll come up North and skate for the good guys?

I feel like this would be a good time to watch Bill Murray’s speech in stripes:

There’s a certain charm to the squash matches of the era. Virtually every show was filled with Larger Than Life Superstar vs. Reno Riggins. Then interviews and recaps. By the time the main event of the show came around, you’d get two superstars going at it, some sort of shenanigans, pandemonium gone wild, and “we’re…

The payoff, though, was the WMIV tournament. Admittedly, it was great to see Savage get the title, but there were some real snore fests in the preliminary rounds.

I’m straight, but Billy Dee makes me think...

That is amazing. The “Generic Will Smith Movie Rap That Rolls At Credits” genre really hasn’t been sufficiently studied enough to be convincingly duplicated. Until now...

I love Westworld. The mythology of the Old West was it was this place where you could “reinvent yourself.” The cost of that reinvention was always oppression (typically Indians and other POC). The robots on the show function as a good metaphor for the outcomes of imperialism. Looking forward to seeing the subjugated…

Sometime during the season’s first two games, which the regulars would still play before hitting the picket lines, Spagnola suggested a work slowdown. His idea? Have a player field the opening kickoff and walk it to the other end of the field, with no resistance from the opponent. Let it take the entire 15 minutes of…

Your portrayal of a farcical caricature of an “angry black woman” is unconvincing. Go back to reddit.

I think a supporting role as a truly malevolent antagonist with a genteel grin would get Hanks another trophy. Something like John Huston in Chinatown. Oscar loves it when people play against type.

Your average news provider doesn’t know who’s supposed to cover it. Sports reporting is almost exclusively coverage of male sports. The Olympics, women’s soccer, etc. has a few weeks of mainstream coverage and is (generally) forgotten soon after.

Ethics in Bobsled Movie Journalism!

Bud had no handles, though. That movie was bullshit.

Public pronouncements of family values and traditional morality = “call the sex crimes unit immediately.”

I’m... sort of surprised by this. I knew Scott Hamilton was a hardcore religious right guy, but I’m stunned to learn this is systemic. Crazy to think that the NFL (for a very brief moment) had the same number of openly gay players as men’s figure skating.

Apparently he visited South Beach and realized that he hates sand.

I’m regularly in Montreal and see damn near as many Expos hats as Habs gear. It’s a huge metro area. If they would have moved them to the AL East for regular games against Toronto and gotten a better stadium, they’d be on the top shelf of the league.