My second White Men Can’t Jump fun fact is that I once asked Kadeem Hardison on Twitter why his character even bothered to enter the Two-on-Two for Brotherhood Basketball Tournament and he answered me. He said that Ron Shelton just liked having him around. 

Who was Babe Roooth?

One of the best White Men Can’t Jump facts: It was one of Stanley Kubrick’s favorite films. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/02/stanley-kubrick-favorite-films-list-white-men-cant-jump

Totally agreed. I’ll add Kilkenny to that list. Really, you only need to spend one long day in Dublin.

Saban: So the S-E-C won’t let me be or let me hire Freeze so let me see

Kinja, this should not be the top comment after this review.

Thank you. This was a profoundly naive editorial, but very on-brand for the Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/opinion/trump-michael-cohen-raid.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur 

Here’s my idea: A battle royal game without weapons. Or, maybe without guns. Just bats and sticks and stuff. Someone make this and don’t forget me when you get rich.

I heard an interview with the director. He said that that didn’t happen. Among the reasons it didn’t happen was that Andre became too big to continue to go to school and had to drop out at like 12. (Beckett would occasionally give just random people a lift in his truck, however. That’s probably how the story started.)

Two things I like to use to find new new music:
KEXP Song of the Day podcast: http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/songoftheday
The All Songs Considered podcast, especially the mid-year and year-end best ofs: https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/12/11/569386464/all-songs-considered-the-year-in-music-2017

I think a thing a lot of casual sports fans don’t really know is just how strange and idiosyncratic a LOT of the sports media is. The chances your local sports writer is a weird dude is like 85%. Strange eating habits, people who wear the same thing every day, people who couldn’t name the vice president, people who…

I know people seem to really enjoy John Legend, but he never really clicked with me. Sure, he’s talented, personable and charismatic, but it’s just that I don’t know how to love him.

Fight Night looks like it actually toned down what the Staples Center looks like for a fight:

This makes no sense. They’re fish.

I didn’t watch the video and I only know of the story from Deadspin, but I understood that they were singing along to a song. That was never unclear.

But do the playoffs truly start if he’s not there?

In a way the Joker was trying to destroy the “spirit” of the city. He’s not trying to out-and-out kill everyone, but he wants to eliminate whatever it is that the Batman thinks he’s trying to protect.

I think Nolan made the right choice by choosing to reset his Batman films as crime films as opposed to being weirdly psycho-sexual exercises in camp.

I’m mad I missed this thread since no one will ever read this, but I’d like someone to ask Gillenbrand something. She has stated support for Robert Mueller finishing his investigation without interference from Donald Trump. What’s the difference between that and Cuomo’s handling of the Moreland Commission?

I mean, there’a difference between “endorsing Cuomo” and “not endorsing Cynthia Nixon.” There are other options.