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Rory McIlroy addresses U.S. Open meltdown, caddie criticismRory McIlroy shed light on a dark day Wednesday, more than three weeks removed from his collapse at the U.S. Open.,McIlroy bogeyed three of his final four holes, letting Bryson DeChambeau win with a par save at the 72nd hole at Pinehurst No. 2. The Northern Irishman missed two par putts from inside ...

Mets giving their fans a thumbs down for booing is trashIt’s a Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing the Mets for dissing their fans....

English soccer tells fans to please stop being racistBoris Johnson is truly awful on a lot of levels, including in his approach to race, but even the English prime minister knows that it’s a bad look when fans boo athletes who take a knee as a form of peaceful protest....

Don't Watch Donald Trump

I thought I was planning to watch Donald Trump speak last night, but then my older kid forgot to do his homework till the last minute before bedtime, and I started to get mad, and I paused and figured out I was really mad because I didn’t want to have to watch Donald Trump speak. ...

The First Three <i>Rocky</i> Movies Were Nothing But White Wish Fulfillment

This piece originally appeared in the August, 1982 issue of Film Comment. It is reprinted here with permission. ...

The Man From Dream City

Pauline Kael on Cary Grant:...

Lahr and Buscemi: Who You Callin' Funny-Lookin?

John Lahr's first book was a biography of his father, Bert Lahr, Notes on a Cowardly Lion....

30 Years. 30 Movies. 30 One-Sentence Reviews.

If you missed any of the films in ESPN's 30 for 30 series, this collection of on-point one-sentence reviews is a handy guide. (On Without Bias: "The Vitamin C of the 1980s did not prevent scurvy.") [Hellafied Gangsta Lean]...