NFL Playoffs, Golden Globes, Downton, Girls: I Watched 11 Straight Hours of TV Yesterday
Yo, yesterday was a crazy day of TV. At 10:56pm the Golden Globes gave out its final award, Best Picture, to 12 Years a Slave, a great movie that I haven’t seen yet because my family didn’t want to watch something so heavy during the holidays. Like the movie itself,… [Read More]
Fantasy Football Anger Management
Many sports fans are of the opinion that in the fall months, Sunday exists as the simultaneously best and worst day of the week. On the one hand, there’s football: beer, friends, fantasy teams, food, sloth, and watching grown men pummel the shit out of each other. On the other,… [Read More]
Larry David Loves Basketball
Today, a brilliant picture of Larry David at Sunday’s Knicks-Spurs games made its rounds on the world wide web. In it, not only is he sporting a classic apathetic Larry David look, but he’s featured with a great supporting cast. From left to right: Nelly, Anthony Anderson, cute random girl,… [Read More]
Ranking Bill and Jalen’s NBA Rankings Pt. II
The NBA season is now under way and Bill and Jalen’s NBA rankings are now standing up to the test of time. The bottom ranked Philadelphia 76ers beat the top two Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls on their way to a 3-0 start to the season. The league leader in… [Read More]
Ranking Bill and Jalen’s NBA Rankings
The highlight of this NBA preseason wasn’t an amazing dunk against a complacent starter too lazy to play defense when the game doesn’t even count. It wasn’t an incredible 4th quarter performance by the Cleveland Cavalier’s surprise #1 overall pick, Anthony Bennett. The best part of the preseason and entire… [Read More]
Top-7 NBA Knuckleheads (and Honorable Mentions)
The NBA season is finally upon us! This season promises to be one of the best we’ve had in years. All of our young stars have finally matured into the league’s pantheon of elite players, LeBron’s Decision is 3 NBA Finals appearances, 2 MVP’s and 2 rings deep, and Juwan… [Read More]
Peyton Manning is My Father
Peyton Manning is my father. Now, I don’t mean like, my biological dad, or anything—I have one of those, and he’s a great man. I love him to death. My mother too, for that matter. Peyton and I have something different though. In some ways, it’s deeper than the strong… [Read More]
4 ways to interpret LeBron’s “I got better”
I’m not a LeBron James fan, but I’m a basketball fan, meaning that my first statement will never be completely true. With 4 league MVP awards and 2 NBA championships, he’s proven to be a winner. It’s a likeable human trait, sportsman or not, but especially both. LeBron is currently… [Read More]
My Football Problem
FOOOOOOOOOOTBBAALALLALLLALAL is back. Football is back. It’s back, baby. Thursday night the Denver Broncos trampled the Baltimore Ravens by a score of 49-27 marking the beginning of a 6-month Bud Light-powered journey to the Super Bowl. Over the past few weeks I’ve gone through an inner struggle. On one end,… [Read More]
Live in the Now: Real-time Sports vs. the DVR
On Thursday of last week, the day of game 7 in the Heat and Spurs’ NBA Finals series, I came across a status on Facebook that read: I’m not one to butt into other people’s personal lives…and as we all know, what you record on your DVR is very privileged… [Read More]
