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Tom Cruise Wants To Team Up With David Beckham For Action Movies

Jack Dickey — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:25:30 EST

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MMA Sexpot Gina Carano Is Starring In A Soderbergh Movie With A Bunch Of Real Actors

Luke O'Brien — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:15:34 EDT

A lot of female MMA fighters don't like Gina Carano because they don't look like Gina Carano. Well, shoot. The world ain't fair. Carano hasn't fought in over two years, when she got the bejeezus beat out of her by Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos. Yet Carano has leveraged her pretty face into a pretty sweet movie gig, which is indicative primarily of two things: 1.) MMA athletes are getting increasingly good at leveraging (see: Rampage Jackson); 2.) Pretty women always win in the end. More »

Rinku And Dinesh Are Coming To A Crappy Disney Movie Near You

Emma Carmichael — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST

Disney has hired screenwriter Tom McCarthy to write the script for "Million Dollar Arm," the inspiring story of two young Indian men who won a reality show and then got signed by the most miserable team in the major leagues. Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel requested in 2009 that we not equate their storyline with Slumdog Millionaire: "We're not from the slums, and we're not millionaires," Patel told Bobby Ghosh. "We are not characters from a film. We want to be taken seriously, as baseball players, as professional pitchers." More »

No Word If Kutcher Is Asking Them For Painkillers

Josh Zerkle — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:30:18 EST

If you thought appearing in a bunch of shitty movies and banging some waif who was barely girl-next-door hot 20 years ago would impress a group of high school freshman football players, dude, you'd be, like, totally wrong and shit! There's a fun report out from Star regarding Ashton Kutcher's latest role as an assistant football coach, and indications are that his ineptitude from TV and film transitions nicely into the world of athletics. That is to say, he seems to be loathed equally in both fields by his respective audiences. More »

Your Unwarranted Kevin Costner Update

Leitch — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:15:26 EDT

You can always tell how Kevin Costner's career is going by how much he remembers he "loves the beautiful game of baseball." When he was stalling in the late '90s, he tried to recapture the Bull Durham-Field Of Dreams magic with For The Love Of The Game, a movie so dull and torpid that you'd never believe it was directed by the Spider-Man and Evil Dead guy. Now that Costner's career has flat-lined — he's got a new movie with Ashton Kutcher — he's back again, making his first appearance at the famous Dyersville, Iowa baseball field where Field of Dreams was filmed. His "band" is even playing a "free" concert before the film is shown. More »

The Terry Bradshaw Bulimia Plan

Leitch — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:45:28 EST

If you haven't noticed from those gripping ads clearly aimed at sports fans, the new Matthew McConaughey-Sarah Jessica Parker "romantic" "comedy" Failure To Launch co-stars Fox Sports' own Terry Bradshaw, playing (we think) the father of one of the two main characters. Yep, Bradshaw's actually playing someone other than himself; we're clearly sprinting to the theaters. More »

Jose Canseco Is Scaring The Children

Leitch — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:50:53 EDT

Shown here at the premiere of the new Samuel L. Jackson movie The Man — most famous for being used as a special new form of torture for Katrina refugees at the Astrodome — Jose Canseco, Hollywood action star, shows off an outfit he got from Madonna's "Vogue" video. More »

Jose Canseco, Master Thespian

Leitch — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:48:30 EDT

We suppose this career transition makes sense. Baseball's most inexplicable Paul Revere Jose Canseco, after meeting with Oliver Stone, has now decided he's going to be an action star. The LA Times details his almost directly vertical climb, including his strange decision to hire a complete moron as his agent, or manager, or whatever the hell they call them out there. More »

A Quiet Crowd

Leitch — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:26:13 EDT

That's not a picture of the newest publicity attempt by the Arizona Cardinals to make their games look better on television. It's actually a photo from the set of the new Mark Wahlberg movie Invincible, about a bartender named Vince Papale who wins a spot on the Philadelphia Eagles. (He caught one pass for his career.) Those immobile dummies in those stands are not meant to represent remaining Eagles receivers. More »

What? Sports Aren't Funny

Leitch — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:23:57 EDT

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According to Daily Variety, which we don't have a subscription for, so we're gonna just link to someone else who heard about this, Comedy Central has just filmed a pilot for a sports program based on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." The show would be an half-hour weekly program, and the channel — well, not actually the channel; some people who speak for the channel — says they plan on spending more energy and time on sports. More »

Scrappy Podsednik Upgrading In Lady Department

Leitch — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:55:43 EDT

We've always liked Chicago White Sox outfielder Scott Podsednik. He's small, he's scrappy, he plays hard, he steals bases, he likes to get his uniform dirty in the way that fans always like white players to get their uniform dirty. But we always liked his understatedness the most: Nothing flashy, just straight ahead hard work, or some such nonsense, we're kind of just quoting the press release here. More »

Kutcher, Iverson and T.O All Punk Each Other And Smile

Leitch — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:24:53 EDT

Remember the story of Ashton Kutcher punking Alex Rodriguez? Essentially, Kutcher and his "Punk'd" buddies pulled a prank on A-Rod where they had a Red Sox fan get all belligerant with him. Supposedly — Rodriguez refused to sign the waiver for the footage to be shown — A-Rod freaked out and became a whining, crying, angry baby. Somewhere, Kutcher has this footage in his basement, and he shows it when Bruce Willis comes by to see the kids, or P-Diddy comes by for coffee and Scrabble. More »

Nick Lachey's Typist Really Mad

Leitch — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:52:37 EDT

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Honestly, the city of Cincinnati just drives us crazy. On one hand, they arrest people for trying to show art. On the other, Jerry More »

Well, At Least He's Not Fighting Anymore

Leitch — Tue, 31 May 2005 14:52:13 EDT

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The Next Box Office Smash

Leitch — Tue, 24 May 2005 17:02:35 EDT

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Bo Bice: The New Reggie Miller

Leitch — Mon, 23 May 2005 16:19:59 EDT

Those looking for next "clutch" player to replace Reggie "Never Won A Title But Am Somehow Considered The Best Crunch Time Guy Ever" Miller should turn their eyes away from the court and toward lousy FOX reality television, says Flak's Bob Cook in his weekly "Bring Out The Sports!" column. (We remember back when it was called "Kick Out The Sports (Motherfucker!)" We liked that title more.) Writes Cook: More »

"We Went To The Super Bowl. Uh, Flip Card. Daunte Speaks Next."

Leitch — Tue, 17 May 2005 12:17:22 EDT

We know you're watching the George Lopez Show anyway, so we shouldn't need to tell you this, but if you're in the mood for pained line readings and rapidly declining hairlines, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb and Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper are guest starring on the season (though, sadly, not series) finale of La Demostraci n De George Lopez. The plot involves Lopez's daughter's boyfriend being recruited by Central Florida and Syracuse, and the QBs show up to ... you know ... we don't have the heart to finish this. If you really can't miss this, you're probably on the wrong site. We hear Nick Bakay has some new content today. More »

Goodbye, Raymond

Leitch — Mon, 16 May 2005 09:45:12 EDT

As you might have heard, tonight is the last night for "Everybody Loves Raymond," a television show that apparently is watched by a lot of people, though nobody we know. It's easy to forget — what, with all the hijinks and wacky misadventures — that the character of Raymond is supposed to be a sportswriter. Like all sportswriters in the movies and TV, Raymond's interaction with his subjects was not one of mutual loathing and utter contempt; he was such good pals with them, in fact, that sometimes they'd pop by his house and meet his irascible (but lovable, and how!) family. This is not realistic of course, but Raymond is a sportswriter who isn't 100 pounds overweight and more concerned about the best he has that night than his family, so hey, it's not a documentary, OK? More »