- 2/1/11 /
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Watch a Moving Montage of the Best Sports Pep Talks in Movies and TV
'FNL' fans, don't get your hopes up.
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- 10/27/10 /
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Why Does the Friday Night Lights Team Always Win on the Field But Lose in Life?
Why does 'FNL' love the sports-movie cliché?
- 9/17/10 /
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Report: Black Eyed Peas To Play Super Bowl Halftime Show
Meet Them Halfway.
- 7/11/10 /
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Will the World Cup Final Be the Most-Watched Event Ever?
In any case, it'll be an enormous ratings spike for ABC.
- 6/8/10 /
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Danny Boyle to Maybe Direct the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
"I can't say any more. It would be lovely, wouldn't it?"
- 4/8/10 /
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The Situation and David Wright Star in a Sweaty, Intimate Vitaminwater Ad
"Harder, David, harder."
- 3/30/10 /
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Stephen King to Release Baseball-Themed Novella
Just in time for Opening Day.
- 2/3/10 /
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Arcade Fire Is Ready for Some Football
"Wake Up" has been licensed for the Super Bowl broadcast, but it's for a good cause.
- 1/28/10 /
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Taylor Swift Snubbed As Super Bowl Asks Carrie Underwood to Sing National Anthem
Thankfully, no one in the NFL has ever heard of Ke$ha.
- 1/6/10 /
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ESPN 3D to Make Sports Scary
Watch out for that puck!
- 11/6/09 /
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Jon Hamm’s Jock Past Revealed
His old high-school yearbook photos have been unearthed.
- 10/30/09 /
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Jay-Z and Alicia Keys Want to Hear It for New York, New York, New York
Was it just us, or did we hear a smattering of boos?
- 10/28/09 /
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Inclement Weather Delays Jay-Z’s World Series Debut
He and Alicia Keys will perform "Empire State of Mind" before Game 2 instead.
- 8/10/09 /
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Finally, Something Good Happens to a Member of the Jackson Family
Jermaine Jackson caught a foul ball at Friday night's L.A. Dodgers baseball game.
- 8/11/08 /
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Our Olympic Spirit Crushed: The Firework Footprints Were Fake
Say it ain't so, Zhang!
- 8/11/08 /
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Did the Beijing Opening Ceremony Finally Make Opening Ceremonies Cool Again?
The ball's in your court, London.
- 8/6/08 /
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Calvinball, Quidditch, and Other Fictional Sports We Wish the Olympics Would Adopt
Forget team handball, modern pentathlon, and the 400-meter individual medley — how about skeet surfing?
- 6/25/08 /
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‘Umbrella’ Watch 2008: Is Shaq’s ‘Tell Me How My Ass Taste’ the Song of the Summer?
Does Shaq's freestyle herald a new era in open-source summer-song creation?
- 5/29/08 /
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The Best Lines in ‘Spin’ Magazine's Oral History of ‘Y.M.C.A.’
"Well, it's a great song that makes people feel good. That's what's important."
- 5/19/08 /
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‘Netherland’ Is Everywhere; How Long Before Hipsters Start Playing Cricket?
We expect the grassy open spaces of Prospect Park to be filled with twentysomething Americans in dress whites by the end of the summer.
- 4/29/08 /
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Jay-Z's New Song Disses … DeShawn Stevenson?
Jay-Z steps into a burgeoning war between Wizards guard Stevenson and LeBron James.
- 4/29/08 /
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Bobby Valentine on His New Tribeca Documentary
The former Mets manager, now a hero of Japanese baseball, is the subject of the new documentary 'The Zen of Bobby V.'