Month: October 2024

If the Oscar prognosticators are correct, next month
Boyhood will become the first film to both premiere at Sundance and win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Last year's festival had plenty of other highlights, too—Whiplash, Life Itself, The Raid 2, The Overnighters, A Most Wanted Man—so as we get ready for this year's edition, which starts Thursday, it's hard to pick just 10 movies I'm excited to see while I'm in Park City. But below are the titles that look the most intriguing—along with a couple of movies that are awfully interesting counterpoints. The End of the Tour
One of this year's most starry/prestigious entries tells the story of the unlikely friendship that developed between
Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) …

Sports Illustrated’s Kalyn Kahler has a long, detailed story out today over at the MMQB about the pitfalls and importance of scrubbing old tweets from NFL prospects ahead of the draft. There’s a lot of work that goes into preventing another Josh Allen situation. Sometimes, it’s fruitless, and other times, it’s over very dull tweets. Kahler writes that Allen’s agent performed a “review and scrub” of the QB’s Twitter account beforehand, only for him to get exposed anyway. Another agent successfully got a video of his client “naked and having a sexually explicit conversation” scrubbed from the internet, which he thinks would have prevented him from getting drafted. The story begins, though, with the anecdote of a 2013 draft prospect meeting with a team so eager to get…

When Tyson Gay was busted for doping last June, and then immediately fessed up to his transgressions, everyone expected that he'd cooperate with USADA in exchange for a lighter punishment. What they did not expect was that he'd sell out his relay teammates from the 2012 Olympics. As predicted, USADA just announced that Tyson Gay has been suspended for twelve months — half of what he deserved — in exchange for full and honest cooperation with authorities. Part of that cooperation involved admitting that he was ineligibly doped for all periods after July 2012, which unfortunately for his relay buddies, includes the London Olympics. Gay has already handed over his silver medal, and because the suspension is retroactive to the time of the failed test, he is eligible to compe…

North Carolina State and Virginia Tech will meet Saturday in an Atlantic Coast Conference game with plenty at stake in Blacksburg, Va. For starters, the Wolfpack (7-3, 4-2) and Hokies (5-5, 4-2) sit tied for third in the conference with North Carolina. Dave Doeren's North Carolina State squad has won three straight games since losing 24-3 at then-No. 17 Duke on Oct. 14. However, winning has not been part of the team's recent trips to Blacksburg. The Wolfpack won there just once in four tries since 2004, including three consecutive setbacks. Doeren has never won in Blacksburg. Also on the losing end of games against the Hokies is Wolfpack starting quarterback Brennan Armstrong, who returned to the lineup in Saturday's 26-6 victory over Wake Forest. Armstrong, a graduate…

data-mm-id=”_nle8imztf”>Skip Bayless reached Galaxy Brain again today on Undisputed. The day after LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers won a game and Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers lost a game, Skip made the case that LeBron is threatened, haunted, and tormented by Kawhi. "LeBron is incredibly threatened and haunted and tormented by the fact that Kawhi Leonard is taking over LeBron's stage at Staples in his town." — @RealSkipBayless pic.twitter.com/h8GYujB68Y— UNDISPUTED (@undisputed) November 14, 2019Even by daytime sports shouting talking head hot take standards, this one is a doozy. Skip's initial take is that Kawhi is taking over LeBron's "stage" at Staples Center. Again, this is the morning after LeBron won at Staples Center a…

data-mm-id=”_neit0anqw”>Rachel Bonnetta isn't made for quarantine life. Well, none of us are. Not really. But the quarantine, and lack of sports that comes with it, has hit the active FOX Sports personality especially hard. Before everything shut down, Bonnetta was on TV every day in some way, shape, or form, whether it was as host of Lock It In or any of the other myriad roles she plays for FOX. Now? Bonnetta is stuck with nothing to do but sit on the couch and binge, just like everyone else. "I’m creative and I just need to do stuff. I binged The Sopranos from start to finish and I felt like a dirty, rotten person. Just sitting on the couch all day. I was like, 'You know what, I had my binging time. Now I have to make things and make use of myself,'" Bonnet…

data-mm-id=”_gfgt27l7c”>ESPN has been at the forefront of broadcasting sports content during this national shutdown when no sports are being played. Whether it was moving up the release of the Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance or leading the broadcast of the NFL Draft, the Worldwide Leader has really stepped it up over the last month. With all due respect to what ESPN has done so far, nothing has stunned me more than the 59-second preview they just released ahead of their documentary on Alex Smith. For those who don't know, Smith suffered a horrific leg injury during the 2018 NFL season while playing quarterback for the Washington Redskins. The injury was so devastating, there were rumors that he may lose the leg completely. The fact that no follow-up images or videos of S…

data-mm-id=”_8ird3pflt”>There's a new animated series on Netflix called Bread Barbershop. It's about a barbershop operated by a piece of bread. Haircuts are basically cake decorating as his main customers appear to be baked goods. The protagonist's name appears to be Bread Pitt. Seriously. Look. Bread. Pitt.Bread. Pitt. / Bread Barbershop is a Korean animation which has gained a large online following since its 2019 debut. It came to Europe this spring and just showed up on American Netflix in the last few days. If this sounds a little vague, that's because there is, like, nothing in English about the show. IMDB has no information beyond the title of the first episode and that there is apparently a character named Chip, who we can probably assume is a chip of some s…