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The Wildest Fan Theories About <i>Kevin Can Wait</i>
Everyone loves Westworld, but the only thing everyone loves more than Westworld are theories about the future plot events of Westworld. Fans coming up with and then spreading theories of dubious repute is not a phenomenon unique to HBO’s new show about cowboys and sex robots, but the layered uncert...
<i>Person Of Interest</i> Was Anti-Prestige TV And Too Smart For Primetime
First, let me tell you what Person of Interest is. Person of Interest is the inverse of Game of Thrones. For every shock death from the HBO’s version of George R.R. Martin’s book series, it had Kevin Chapman getting maced by a model and beaten up with a handbag. For every Game of Thrones setpiece th...
NBA TV's Kristen Ledlow Says She Was Robbed At Gunpoint
This evening, NBA TV reporter and NBA Inside Stuff host Kristen Ledlow posted a short note on her Twitter and Instagram pages saying she was robbed at gunpoint yesterday. She says that she’ll be taking a social media hiatus for a bit....
Get A Load Of These Outlandish <i>Westworld</i> Fan Theories
HBO’s Westworld is draped with the trappings of the horror, action adventure, and Western genres, but it’s best understood as a mystery. The show doesn’t exactly have a coherent, unified plot so much as a tableau of vignettes and characters whose interconnectedness is only vaguely clear. The more th...
Norwegian Soccer Commentators Shocked And Horrified By San Marino Equalizer
The unabashed homers on Norwegian TV reasonably expected a comfortable win against little ol’ San Marino in Norway’s World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. Instead of getting to channel their inner Elated Tiziano Crudeli, they were forced into Distraught Tiziano Crudeli mode when San Marino tied the game a...
Alex Trebek Hilariously Shits On <i>Jeopardy!</i> Contestant And Her Whole Crew For No Reason
Man, Trebek really looked at her, took a breath, then dropped the hammer....
Dick Enberg Was Always The Right Man For The Moment
Dick Enberg hummed his way through his most famous call....
Alan Siegel wrote about The Simpsons villain Hank Scorpio and the episode “You Only Move Twice” for The Ringer, and talked to showrunner Josh Weinstein about Homer Simpson’s “Yes, once,” line when Scorpio asks if he’s ever seen a guy say goodbye to his shoe before. Weinstein said that Homer’s respon...
NFL Memo Blames Plummeting TV Ratings On Presidential Election, Bad Matchups
This afternoon, Darren Rovell tweeted a memo sent by the NFL’s executive vice president of media Brian Rolapp and senior vice president of broadcasting Howard Katz to the league’s “media committee,” regarding the league’s cratering television ratings, primarily for primetime broadcasts. Rolapp and ...
Report: NFL Threatens To Fine Teams If They Use Too Much Footage On Social Media
Buried in Albert Breer’s column for MMQB this morning was a nugget suggesting just how seriously the NFL is taking their declining primetime TV audiences. Ratings in the 18-t0-49 demographic have fallen between 12 and 16 percent for Thursday, Sunday, and Monday night games, and the NFL, coincidental...
HBO's <i>Westworld</i> Is Violent, Philosophical, And Somehow Tons Of Fun
There’s this moment in the premiere of HBO’s Westworld, the network’s latest drama offering and one of its most expensive since Game Of Thrones, when two characters come across a robbery in progress. You’ve watched this scene play out in hundreds of Westerns; the white hat kills the black hats, sav...
Ambitious Running Back Flips Over, Through Would-Be Tackler For Spectacular Touchdown
This here is Michael Anderson of Division II West Virginia Wesleyan, taking the path of most resistance in for the touchdown....
Skip Bayless Explains How To Argue When You Agree
Skip Bayless’s and Shannon Sharpe’s two-and-a-half-hour sports shouting show, Second Take, has apparently put a dent in First Take’s ratings, perhaps thanks to all those loyal Skipheads out there who just want to see their man yell. But what’s to do when Bayless and Sharpe agree on a topic and have ...
Here's A Truly Bonkers One-Handed Catch
Look at this catch, man. ...
He Kicks You In The Financial Balls
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Idiot On The Field Invades Ryan Lochte's <i>Dancing With The Stars</i> Segment [Updates]
Tonight’s Dancing With The Stars episode went to an emergency break when an apparent Idiot invaded the set while judges attempted to critique swimmer Ryan Lochte’s performance....
I Respect <i>American Ninja Warrior's</i> Complete Lack Of Mercy
I don’t watch American Ninja Warrior all that often, but every time I do I find myself enjoying it far more than I expected. Last night, NBC aired Week 1 of the National Finals, and it was a rad time. Bunches of seasoned competitors were undone by a particularly difficult course, and Jessie Graff be...
Adrian Beltre Lovingly Messes With Switch Pitcher Pat Venditte
Ambidextrous relief pitcher Pat Venditte has been in Major League Baseball for about a year. He’s bounced back and forth between the show and the minors, and Venditte made his Mariners debut this evening. After starter Hisashi Iwakuma was chased after three innings, Venditte stepped in and pitched t...
<i>The Night Of</i> Made Its Characters Morons Because It Kind Of Sucked
Almost every character in The Night Of, the eight-episode limited crime series that wrapped up on HBO last night, acted like a big idiot at one point or another. ...
Perhaps NBC Could Focus On The "Live" Part
NBC’s Olympics ratings are down 17%....