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-OR- Why I always wish it was John McClain instead of Hans Gruber who fell off Nakatomi Plaza. By Andrew J. Pridgen I love Die Hard. I love the fact that I always ask myself new questions every time I watch it: Why didn’t one of the… Continue reading The day I fell for Alan Rickman
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David Bowie released his final album in his final hours and then boarded his flight home. Now what? By Andrew J. Pridgen On a foggy morning in February of 1985, I snuck into the Stockdale 6 Cinema in Bakersfield, California with my sister to watch The Breakfast… Continue reading Is there Life on Earth after Bowie?
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ESPN prepares for another the biggest rating’s disaster of this bowl season Monday, this time at the hands of the Deep South. By Andrew J. Pridgen Until about 8:18 p.m. PST New Year’s Eve 2015, my interest in this year’s four-team college football playoff could be described… Continue reading Not my College Football Championship
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Junior may have been a close-to-unanimous selection to Cooperstown this week, but his namesake video game was even more prolific. By Andrew J. Pridgen Like Andy Dufresne, Ken Griffey Jr. crawled through a river of shit of the PED era and came out clean on the other… Continue reading The real Hall of Famer is Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball for Nintendo 64
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These scenes are a reminder of how adept we’ve become at pretending the glue-gunned feathers holding together our economic and moral fabric are going to hold. By Andrew J. Pridgen I come from gambling stock. My great-grandfather on my mother’s side was a degenerate Scandinavian card player… Continue reading The craps table is full of assholes: This and other musings from 28 minutes at a casino on New Year’s Eve
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Just as it appeared things couldn’t get worse in Santa Clara it appears Hans Gruber has taken over the press office. By Andrew Pridgen From making bad draft picks, to misbegotten moves out of San Francisco to coaching decisions gone askance—the 49ers’ ownership and front office can’t… Continue reading 49ers’ Tomsula firing press release reads more like the head coach was killed by a movie villain
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Charlotesville, VA — First-year University of Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich this week danced around the question of whether whether the O-shaped holes installed in the shower and tub rooms are, in fact, glory holes better than his quarterback Marcus Mariota can samba around the pass rush.… Continue reading Oregon coach denies presence of Glory Holes in new state-of-the-art facility
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I learned this year it is possible to be at once both so very proud and so very embarrassed by what’s going on in this country. Some people are dug in and hopeless and some are so damn beautiful and productive and pragmatic that it’s almost impossible… Continue reading The greatest gift of 2015: Kobe Bryant’s retirement poem
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Farewell to that feeling of invincibility and impossibility mixed with the threat of invisibility and impoverishment. Isn’t that, after all, what great cities are made of? By Andrew Pridgen The last pair of San Francisco landmarks worth knowing are closing down and leaving town for good this… Continue reading So long Lucky Penny and Tim Lincecum: San Francisco has, at last, surrendered the remainder of its soul
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College hockey is being held back by it’s own blithe spirit of the actual joy of sport. But how long will it stay uncorrupted? An examination. Written by Kyle Magin College hockey displays all the telltale signs of desiring major sport status. New arenas, brawny new leagues,… Continue reading In Defense of True Amateurism: College Hockey’s Troublesome Heart
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