Category: Arts
Sep 62007
Their rookie kicker looked Kathy Ireland-level shaky in the preseason, although he’s definitely the best left-footed African-American kicker in NFL history.
Aug 312007
I’m late to the review party (I was too busy playing the game), so all the superlatives have been used up, but Bioshock is the undisputed Game of the Year. The central plot is shaky at times, but the atmosphere created by the rich backstory and gorgeous scenery is the best I’ve ever experienced in a video game.
(1)Aug 182007
A reporter should not be assigned to cover subject X unless he has as good an understanding of X as a baseball writer is expected to have of baseball.
(2)
Aug 22007
Now, I worked on [NFL] Head Coach. There’s no excuse at all for that game and I’m really, truly, sorry. We all tried submitting “Game is awful” as a bug, but nobody listened.
DrBagpipes (Something Awful forums)
Jun 192007
An exhibition basketball game at the University of Washington on Saturday demonstrated how the game would be different if the rims were eleven feet tall instead of the usual ten. Sounds like it opens up inside play, which I’m all for.
Jun 12007
I had a Pistons fan named Duane e-mail me, “Watching LeBron’s performance in Game 5 made me feel like Ron Burgundy. LBJ pooped in my refrigerator, ate the whole wheel of cheese and I’m not even mad. That was amazing.”
Apr 52007
30 Rock gets renewed for the 2007-08 television season. I’m incredibly relieved that for once a show I love dearly is not cut down in its prime.
Jan 292007
For the first time, we have two African-American coaches in the same game (Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith). That’s going to lead to a series of columns and features about the significance of this fact, followed by a series of columns claiming that it’s 2007 and we’ll have truly broken down the race barrier when two blacks can coach in the Super Bowl without anyone mentioning this, followed by a series of columns excoriating the previous series of columns for belittling the significance of two black Super Bowl coaches in a league that has clearly been afraid to hire black head coaches. Sadly, all of this stuff will overshadow the biggest story involving an African-American NFL coach — that the Steelers just hired Omar Epps to replace Bill Cowher.
Jan 262007
I had no idea that The “Super Bowl Shuffle” was nominated for a grammy. I fear I am unable to cope with a world where this sort of thing is possible.
Dec 152006
By the way, I would have voted for Drew Brees for “most accurate,” and the evidence backs it up: Only 44 poor throws out of a league-leading 479 pass attempts for a 9.9 percentage of bad throws… He’s also an astonishing 26-for-45 for 14 TDs, 2 INTs and 1,112 yards on throws that travel at least 21-plus yards in the air. He leads the league in 20-plus yard passes (55) and 20-plus yard touchdowns (16). He has the best TD/INT differential in the league (+15). He’s second in passing for first downs (180 overall). He’s even second in the league in dropped passes by his receivers (28). Look, I know Tomlinson has been amazing, but Brees has been playing out of his mind with a collection of rookies and castoffs. He has to be the MVP through 14 weeks. No other choice is acceptable.
