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Grierson & Leitch's Year In Review: The Performances Best Forgotten

Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2012. We're saving ours for the last week of the year, but while we wait for this full, rich, and weird movie year to end, we're going to start looking back at certain highlights. Tuesday, we looked at performances this year that have...

To Buy Out Failed Coach, Southern Miss Sold Home-Field Advantage Back To Nebraska for $2.1 Million

What's the market price for an easy home win in college football? The Southern Miss Golden Eagles have made a deal to move next season's opener—a long-anticipated matchup against Nebraska in Hattiesburg—to Nebraska instead. In a letter between the schools' athletic directors dated last week, which w...

Damn It Feels Profound To Be A Gangster: <em>Killing Them Softly</em>, Reviewed

1. Killing Them Softly is a polemic disguised as a thriller, a series of scenes featuring various tiers of low-level gangsters shooting, talking, drinking, and complaining, unaware, somewhat blissfully, that they're all metaphors. (It's hard enough to be a gangster without having to walk around symb...

Former VCU Women's Volleyball Coach Claims He Was Fired Because He Is Gay [UPDATE: The University And Ed McLaughlin Sent Us An Official Statement]

James Finley has been the VCU women's volleyball coach for the past eight years. This season, Finley's team performed surprisingly well after moving into the more competitive Atlantic 10 conference, finishing with a 25-6 record and a trip to the conference semifinals. So Finley was shocked when he ...

Grierson & Leitch's Year In Review: The Best Forgotten Performances

Yes, many people are already writing their Top 10 movie lists for 2012. We're saving ours for the last week of the year, but while we wait for this full, rich, and weird movie year to end, we're going to start looking back at certain highlights. Today, it's our favorite performances that won't be re...

The Eagles Can't Even Fire Some No-Name Marketing Executive Without Screwing Something Up

The Philadelphia Eagles this afternoon fired someone named Tim McDermott. From a football standpoint, it's not a big deal. McDermott was the team's senior vice president and chief marketing officer, so it's not like he was responsible for, say, drafting Jaiquwan Jarrett. If anything, shitcanning McD...

The NHL turned to professional mediators. One of them turned out to be a little too into AssMode....

T.J. Simers Believes UCLA Threw The Stanford Game, And Hijacked Jim Mora Jr.'s Press Conference To Prove It

UCLA already has the Pac-12 South clinched. Their opponent in the championship game would be either Stanford or Oregon, depending on whether the Bruins won or lost against the Cardinal on Saturday. Well, UCLA lost, 35-17, and they'll have their rematch in just four days. Where the rest of us see o...

Dear Fireman Ed: F-U-C-K Off! Off! Off!

In case you missed it, unofficial Jets mascot Fireman Ed, whose claim to fame is going to Jets games and spelling one word very loudly, "retired" yesterday. And the best part is that he retired because people at the stadium were just too darn mean to him:...

Tennessee Mascot Smokey Gets Loose, Goes After Kentucky's Kicker

A newly Derek Dooley-free Tennessee had its way with Kentucky in today's Battle for the Barrel, and even Volunteers mascot Smokey got into the game. UT's bluetick coonhound made a run for Kentucky kicker Craig McIntosh, nipping at his leg but not causing any damage—indeed, McIntosh would go on t...

<em>Hitchcock</em>: For The Birds

Over time, great individuals can attain such a level of public adoration that any sort of criticism leveled against them is treated as sacrilege, whether they be Abe Lincoln, Mother Teresa, or a Beatle not named Ringo. Naturally, that inspires a certain kind of person to take dead aim at such sacred...

<i>Red Dawn</i>: The Movie That Will Make You Hate America

In general, I don't put a lot of stock in criticisms that accuse Hollywood movies of influencing social behavior. Yes, some films glorify violence, but rather than inspiring horrible acts, I think Hollywood mostly responds to what's already out there in the culture, catering to particular audiences ...

Incense And Disappointments. <em>Life of Pi</em>, Reviewed.

1. Life of Pi is about 65 minutes of staggering cinematic beauty surrounded by 55 minutes of touchy-feely New Age claptrap. You recognize the kind, with its choose-your-own-adventure brand of spirituality, and God as captain of the ship sailing everyone's personal journey for self-fulfillment and un...

Ed Reed Will Not Be Suspended After All

Yesterday, the NFL announced that Ravens safety Ed Reed would be suspended one game for his helmet-to-helmet hit on Steelers receiver Emmanuel Sanders. But after further review, that decision has been changed. The league just released a statement that says Reed is good to go for Sunday's game agai...

Official <em>Monday Night Football</em> Twitter Account Accidentally Links To German News Story About Brutal Nightclub Death

Apparently, ESPN's Monday Night Football broadcast runs some Twitter contest that amounts to "What player is Jon Gruden thinking of right now?" Last night, Gruden was thinking of San Francisco's NaVorro Bowman, which user @DanShedd correctly guessed. The MNF crew congratulated Dan on Twitter, told h...

Desperate For Hockey, Nashville Predators Fans, Announcers And Coaches Surprise Local Youth Team

Figuring their fans had nothing better to do at the moment, the Nashville Predators invited the faithful down to a local rink for a "pizza party" last week. The pizza was just a front, though, for a flashmob meant to surprise two youth hockey teams. 200 fans, the Predators' P.A. announcer, the rad...

<em>OK!</em> Magazine Russia Names Evgeni Malkin Its Most Eligible Bachelor

The player once called "the ugliest guy in the league" has graduated to the most eligible bachelor in Russia. This says something about the men in Russia, or perhaps more about Malkin's willingness to sit for a photo shoot....

By 2025, The NBA Will Have A Latino MVP

I'd like to make a $100 bet: By 2025 the NBA will have a Latino MVP. I'm willing to go one step further, I believe it will be a U.S.-born Latino MVP. I'll go one step further still and say that it won't be Carmelo Anthony (whose father is Puerto Rican)....

Your Monday Night Football Open Thread

Chicago at San Francisco: So, this might have been a decent game but neither starting quarterback will be playing due to concussions. Instead it's Jason Campbell and Colin Kaepernick. Yikes. Kaepernick did surprise the Jets earlier this year with some solid Wildcat-esque play, but presumably the Be...

You Can See The Outline Of Some Dude's Dick On The Under Armour Wikipedia Page [UPDATE]

We could elaborate on the headline, but tipster Pat explained it well in his email. In his quest to find some legitimate information on Wikipedia, he ended up being sidetracked after discovering a picture of a guy in compression shorts, the outline of his dick clearly visible....