Good Morning: 9.24.12
GOOD MORNING
It was a wild weekend in the NFL, with three overtime games and more fun with the replacement referees.
The Titans and Lions went all out on the ridiculousness after
In a GQ cover story, Chris Paul (I call him the black Joe Pesci) recounted his irritation with the Pau Gasol head-pat dustup this pas
Baseball wasn’t built for cats that, ahem, bust off quick. By design, the grueling162-game season limits a single player’s impact on the overall performance of a team. Yankees closer Mariano Rivera has been the rare exception to this
Admittedly, the replacement referees have been subpar. You could even say incompetent or shaky. Go ahead; say they suck, do it. Yeah, they’re calling ticky-tack stuff and missing obvious no-brainers. There were 24 accepted penalties in last
The problem I have with this piece is that it feels dated and misguided. Crazy dated at that. I don’t care if
"I don't want to tip-toe the lines of anything that's happened with bounties or anything like that, but they were definitely going after me,"
Really?. Those are
While reading GQ's recent interview with Denzel Washington, I was struck by his statement on why he isn'
Reality is often trumped by possibility.
Never has this been more evident in sports than with Lane Kiffin, college football's perennial harbinger of youth and future prosperity. It is Kiffin who has been handed much
I knew I liked Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
For the uninitiated, Chavez Jr. is a boxer and the son of Hall of Fame legend Julio Cesar Chavez. During the early part of his career, he used his famous name to beat up club fighters
Monday, Salon.com ran an excerpt from Wyclef Jean’s memoir, “Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story”. The titillating portion of the excerpt
Some stories are just so distressing that you figure, somehow, it must be a hoax. Until you hear about an arrest and then you shake your hea
We highly suggest this fascinating piece on the di
You can’t be half a gangster. That’s how Jimmy Darmody left Boardwalk Empire last season and, judging from the opening scenes of “Resolution,” it appears the message was well received.
Peyton Manning endured a nice amount of humiliation Monday night. There were the three early interceptions, of course. And, to make matters worse, the replacement officials seemed intent on extending the first half into Tuesday morning, delaying
"Myriad Now," Hawthorne's debut is one of the most slept on black singing music (that's my catch-all phrase for non hip-hop music that's too heavy to classify as R&B) of the year. This is one of the doper tracks on the a
Right around the 3:05 mark the godfather goes on a tear that shuts down every other performer in human history. After about 30 seconds — during which he mash-potatoes his shoe soles into dust — he walks off the stage with a smirk, like, "t
Forget about the song for a moment and focus on the visual…Bust looks more diesel than Jason Pierre-Paul. He needs to get with Timbaland and Dr. Dre and go run the I-formation for some semi-pro squad in the tri-state.
an eight-minute song deserves a mini-film for its music video. Ocean delivers. This has a "Swim Good" feel to it.
Chris Paul, Slang Doctor
No Mo’, No Magic
Only Suckers Complain About Replacement Refs
You Must Learn
The B Word
Denzel Is The Man
Any Given Saturday: Week 4
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Does What He Wants
The Real Takeaway From Wyclef’s Lauryn Confession
The New Lebron Sneakers Are Making People Go Crazy For Real
Sign Language, Yet Another Thing That Is Not Post-Racial
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Resolution
Broncos Didn’t Think Manning Could Throw Hail Mary
VIDEO: Hawthorne Headhunters – “If You Were My Baby”
VIDEO: James Brown – Night Train
VIDEO: Busta Rhymes: Doin’ It Again
VIDEO: Frank Ocean – Pyramids