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35 results for "basketball"
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Bayern Munich's Bastian Schweinsteiger Wants Basketball Playoffs ...
Chris RyanAbout a year ago, Bayern Munich played Chelsea in the Champions League final, losing on penalty kicks. It was a heartbreaker; Bayern were, overall, probably a better team, and they were playing in front of their home crowd at Allianz Arena. What did ...
Blog | May 15, 2013 -
NBA Short-Attention-Span Power Rankings: You Can't Go Home Again
Chris RyanA survey of the players and teams making moves in last night's NBA action. 1. Portland's Uniforms These, with all due respect to the deeply serious basketball played last night, were the best thing that happened in the NBA in the last 24 hour...
Blog | March 15, 2013 -
Letting the Wookiee Win: A Journey Through All-Star Weekend
Chris RyanI did not attend the East Coast Invasion at the Roxy. I didn't crash the 2 Kings dinner thrown by LeBron James and Jay-Z. I didn't wind up in a secret basement humidor club with World Wide Wes, Phil Knight, and J. Prince. I'm sure at some point I was...
Blog | February 18, 2013 -
All-Star Weekend Podcast & Video Extravaganza: Kyrie Irving, Broo...
Chris RyanOn our first full day in Houston, Jacoby, Zach Lowe, and I had the pleasure of talking with a few of the NBA's brightest stars. Jacoby spoke with Kyrie Irving about video games, 3-point shooting, and Uncle Drew. I got a chance to talk with Chandler ...
Blog | February 15, 2013 -
Russell Westbrook Sings Along to Ke$ha, Maintains Dignity While D...
Chris RyanCredit to Juliet Litman for this one. She has great taste in YouTube videos....
Blog | January 31, 2013 -
We Went There: Thunder-Clippers
Chris RyanKevin Durant is now method branding. You may be familiar with this new "KD IS NOT NICE," or ("#KDISNOTNICE" for my Twitterati) Nike campaign. I can't claim to call this one for the chicken or the egg (was he always not nice or is he being not nice be...
Blog | January 23, 2013 -
Christian Slater Sang 'The Heat Is On' at a Miami Heat Charity Ka...
Chris RyanMy man was in Heathers. Respect him. You can see a bunch of other photos of the "Battioke Night" — a benefit for the Take Charge Foundation (how perfect is it that Shane Battier named his foundation "Take Charge"?) — over at HoopsHype. Th...
Blog | January 22, 2013 -
For No Reason Whatsoever, Here's a Video of the 1988 Arizona Wild...
Chris RyanThis comes to us via Michael from Sacramento. If you want to really push yourself, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, spend some time figuring out which Wildcat is which member of The Wu-Tang Clan. If you ask me, our founding fathers wrote the C...
Blog | January 15, 2013 -
About the Previous Evening: Lakers Lose, Spartans Win, and All th...
Chris RyanPretty much every morning, About Last Night provides you with the essential sports headlines that you need to know. This is not one of those mornings. The Spurs defeated the Lakers last night, 84-82. This was the first and final appearance of Pa...
Blog | November 14, 2012 -
Jonas Valanciunas Gets Yammed On by Kevin Durant, Delivers Bond V...
Chris RyanWelcome. To. The. League. Jonas! "I was mad ... It happened. Maybe next time it will be opposite." I think, in basketball terms, this is known as ordering the cold borscht....
Blog | November 07, 2012 -
Can Gerald Green Dunking on People Be the Pacers' New Offense?
Chris RyanI'm going to have to run this by Zach Lowe, but I think this one has legs ... or at the very least booster rockets. Indiana beat Cleveland in a GAH IT'S ALMOST THE SEASON preseason matchup last night. Gerald Green was +20 in 29 minutes of playing ...
Blog | October 24, 2012 -
Kobe Bryant Lets a Little Kid Beat Him at Basketball
Chris RyanDoesn't this warm your heart? You know what else warms the heart? The idea that this little kid grows up and enters the NBA, with hope in his heart. With love in his heart. AND THEN KOBE BRYANT COMES OUT OF RETIREMENT AND PUTS 65 POINTS ON HIM AND MA...
Blog | September 28, 2012 -
Quick Question: Are These Trick Shots Real?
Chris RyanI don't want to come off as a guy who thinks Avatar is a documentary or anything. It's just hard to tell. This comes to us via Chuck Klosterman, who longingly wondered if "something happened with computers I don't know about." There is some kind of i...
Blog | September 28, 2012 -
Nobody Told Kevin Love There Would Be Dancing
Chris RyanThis will kick-start your heart. Also, while I have you all here, isn't this a great little moment? It's almost like, right there, during that hug, when Durant walks up to Gasol and Kobe, that's when the Olympics end and the NBA season ...
Blog | August 13, 2012 -
Lowering the Batum: An Anthology of Basketball Crotch Shots
Chris RyanToday, at the end of the men's basketball quarterfinal between France and Spain (which Spain won, 66-59), French forward Nicolas Batum landed the nut shot heard round the world on Spain's Juan-Carlos Navarro. After the game, Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowsk...
Blog | August 08, 2012 -
Russell Westbrook's Dunk on Argentina Should Be Played in a Templ...
Chris RyanHas anyone checked on Diego Maradona? The far left end of the bench, where Tyson and Kobe sit, has the most "GTFO" reaction. Kobe whipping the towel, and Tyson going beast-mode. Let me sit there. Then there's Kevin Love, who seriously would rather be...
Blog | August 07, 2012