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Tell me you want out of Oakland without telling me you want out of OaklandOne city’s trash is Las Vegas’ treasure. The Oakland Coliseum has been a steaming pile of a ballpark for decades. After numerous skirmishes with the city over Byzantine budgets, funding, public subsidies, and potential sites for a new Oakland-area stadium, the Athletics announced the purchase of 49 ...

How Joshua Malina landed his role on <i>Sports Night</i> | (Being friends with Aaron Sorkin didn't hurt)

The Joseph Ossais are partially why we watch the NFLPatrick Mahomes is a thief. On Sunday night, he slipped up in the pocket, darted for the first down, stepped out of bounds, and stole a win from the Cincinnati Bengals. He also put defensive end Joseph Ossai in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons....

<i>Steve Jobs</i> May Be About The Apple Guru, But Aaron Sorkin Is The Real Star

The trick to enjoying an Aaron Sorkin project is to never take it as seriously as he does. The creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom and the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network doesn’t write dialogue—he stages showy talk-fests that are meant to either show off how smart his characte...

Aaron Sorkin Wants You To Know Jay Paterno Was Really Moved By <em>The Newsroom</em>

Aaron Sorkin says Jay Paterno called him after Paterno watched an episode of The Newsroom earlier this summer. The episode, which was about last year's attempted assassination of then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, showed how some networks (like NPR) inaccurately reported Gifford had died. Which, com...

Now It's Aaron Sorkin's Turn To Fail At Writing A <em>Moneyball</em> Script

Columbia has enlisted Sorkin, the sanctimonious West Wing creator last seen making Ed Asner say "Macau" over and over, to write a draft of the star-crossed Moneyball script. Such waste. Such inefficiency. Somebody could write a bestselling book about this....