Jack Dempsey/AP
When Quinton “Rampage” Jackson signed with Bellator in 2013, it was huge news. Sure, Rampage was on an 0-3 skid in the Ufc and looked like he had lost his will to fight, coming in overweight and laying a goose egg in his beloved second home of Japan, and complaining about everything from money to having to face wrestlers who wouldn’t stand and trade punches with him (this from a guy who relied on solid wrestling early in his career), but he was still a big name that drew eyeballs. A guy who could headline fight cards.
So his defection to Bellator was huge, and huge for Bellator Mma. It also gave his career in the cage a boost: upon joining Bellator, Jackson quickly piled up three wins, knocking out Joey Beltran and former Bellator light heavyweight champion Christian M’Pumbu before winning a close decision over...
When Quinton “Rampage” Jackson signed with Bellator in 2013, it was huge news. Sure, Rampage was on an 0-3 skid in the Ufc and looked like he had lost his will to fight, coming in overweight and laying a goose egg in his beloved second home of Japan, and complaining about everything from money to having to face wrestlers who wouldn’t stand and trade punches with him (this from a guy who relied on solid wrestling early in his career), but he was still a big name that drew eyeballs. A guy who could headline fight cards.
So his defection to Bellator was huge, and huge for Bellator Mma. It also gave his career in the cage a boost: upon joining Bellator, Jackson quickly piled up three wins, knocking out Joey Beltran and former Bellator light heavyweight champion Christian M’Pumbu before winning a close decision over...
- 12/20/2014
- by Jay Anderson
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
Wrestling fans love to complain; in our own socially maladjusted way, we’re often a lot like fans of actual sports, in our own, socially maladjusted way. Many are armchair grapplers with a million things to say about the product,but only the internet to listen, where online forums, social network feeds, and blog posts abound with homespun wisdom on everything from which Diva we wish we could approach publicly to whether or not the Oklahoma character was just misunderstood. It’s a kind of social schizophrenia: we have an audience, even if it is only ourselves.
We’re kind of like our angry grandfathers in a way, except our telescreens yell back at us.
Among the most popular topics is whether or not a given wrestler deserves a spot. Over the years, the industry has seen plenty of stars accused of not paying their dues, not only by so-called “smart” marks,...
Wrestling fans love to complain; in our own socially maladjusted way, we’re often a lot like fans of actual sports, in our own, socially maladjusted way. Many are armchair grapplers with a million things to say about the product,but only the internet to listen, where online forums, social network feeds, and blog posts abound with homespun wisdom on everything from which Diva we wish we could approach publicly to whether or not the Oklahoma character was just misunderstood. It’s a kind of social schizophrenia: we have an audience, even if it is only ourselves.
We’re kind of like our angry grandfathers in a way, except our telescreens yell back at us.
Among the most popular topics is whether or not a given wrestler deserves a spot. Over the years, the industry has seen plenty of stars accused of not paying their dues, not only by so-called “smart” marks,...
- 3/31/2014
- by Forrest Gabitsch
- Obsessed with Film
Jack Dempsey/AP/Press Association Images
Ask ten different people who they think is the greatest quarterback of all time and you will likely get ten different answers. Some might say Tom Brady, others might say Johnny Unitas. Ask those same ten people what defines greatness in a quarterback and you may get another ten answers. Some may say it’s the statistics, the touchdown passes, the yards thrown. Some may say it’s the number of Mvp awards. Others will likely say the only thing that matters is the Super Bowl victories, the only thing that matters is the rings.
Quarterback may be one of the hardest positions in professional sports. There are so many skills one must possess and perfect. A great quarterback must have an outstanding arm. But it’s not just the power to throw far, it’s the combination of strength and pinpoint accuracy required...
Ask ten different people who they think is the greatest quarterback of all time and you will likely get ten different answers. Some might say Tom Brady, others might say Johnny Unitas. Ask those same ten people what defines greatness in a quarterback and you may get another ten answers. Some may say it’s the statistics, the touchdown passes, the yards thrown. Some may say it’s the number of Mvp awards. Others will likely say the only thing that matters is the Super Bowl victories, the only thing that matters is the rings.
Quarterback may be one of the hardest positions in professional sports. There are so many skills one must possess and perfect. A great quarterback must have an outstanding arm. But it’s not just the power to throw far, it’s the combination of strength and pinpoint accuracy required...
- 2/12/2014
- by Justin Riley
- Obsessed with Film
Mad Men again focused on a popular topic 'round the AfterElton water cooler: masculinity! In all its attractive, sporty, sexual, confusing, and hilarious forms! Don Draper worked out a new wardrobe choice, Roger Sterling wowwed us with wuthering words, Pete Campbell tried to be a hustling psycho like Don (and blew it!), and Lane Pryce showed us that he's the hottest pugilist stuck 30-40 years in the past. Let's count up the five most fabulous moments of "Signal 30" and fan ourselves when it gets sweaty.
1. Introducing Don Draper: Sport-o Edition!
Fact: Megan's fashionista instincts are nothing but a good thing. She can look like Marlo Thomas or Jeannie C. Riley on any given day, and last night's episode revealed another trick in her book: Her influence extends to Don, too. Look at our dashing Valentino in his croquet-ready Gene Rayburn gear! Flashy-smashy, indeed. I assume Megan made him wear the...
1. Introducing Don Draper: Sport-o Edition!
Fact: Megan's fashionista instincts are nothing but a good thing. She can look like Marlo Thomas or Jeannie C. Riley on any given day, and last night's episode revealed another trick in her book: Her influence extends to Don, too. Look at our dashing Valentino in his croquet-ready Gene Rayburn gear! Flashy-smashy, indeed. I assume Megan made him wear the...
- 4/16/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
“Two Boats and a Lifeguard”, the eighth episode of the second season of Boardwalk Empire, is bookended with a creepy reoccurring dream Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) keeps on having: he takes a quiet trip up in an elevator with a uniformed operator who wants to chat him up about the Jack Dempsey fight that hasn’t yet happened. Nucky steps out and is greeted by a group of people dressed in black. He sees a baseball mitt on a chair. There’s a hole in the middle of it. Of course, the dream has one obvious meaning: the hole in Nucky’s right after the failed attempt on his life. But after we see the dream in the opening sequence, Margaret (Kelly Macdonald) receives a call at the house from Eli’s (Shea Whigham) wife to inform her and Nucky that his jerk of a father has passed away. The second time...
- 11/15/2011
- by Mo Fathelbab
- BuzzFocus.com
On a show with so many boobs and so many murders, it was really only a matter of time before someone got murdered by boobs. It’s Boardwalk Empire Season 2, Episode 4 entitled “What Does The Bee Do?” And if by “Bee” we mean Gretchen Mol’s “bee-oobs,” then the answer to that question is “they cause The Commodore to have a stroke.” Waaaaaittttt aaaaaaaa minnuuuuttttteee… A high-ranking but generally mean-spirited antagonist suffered a crippling stroke in the middle of sexual passion? That seems awfully familiar… So just how powerful is Naked Gretchen Mol? Here’s a handy diagram (Nsfw): Uhoh! The Commodore’s entire right side is paralyzed, and he’s unable to move, speak, or form thoughts that aren’t the elemental roots of swear words. So what does this mean for the Ocean City Mutineers (not the Mls team)? It means that Jimmy, Eli, and Gillian are...
- 10/18/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
Limitless director Neil Burger will be developing a new film based on the true life depression era outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. He is teaming up with screenwriter Sheldon Turner to tell the tale of the famous outlaws.
The movie will be an adaptation of the Jeff Guinn novel Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, which is a much different take on these people than what was portrayed in the Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway 1967 film. According to Deadline, " the outlaws were just 22 when they were gunned down by a former Texas Ranger after they'd killed seven people. The first person Clyde Barrow killed was the cell mate who had sexually abused him repeatedly. Barrow had a strong code of honor: when a lifer in the prison took the rap for the killing, Barrow and his gang broke him out. The book also suggests that Bonnie Parker...
The movie will be an adaptation of the Jeff Guinn novel Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, which is a much different take on these people than what was portrayed in the Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway 1967 film. According to Deadline, " the outlaws were just 22 when they were gunned down by a former Texas Ranger after they'd killed seven people. The first person Clyde Barrow killed was the cell mate who had sexually abused him repeatedly. Barrow had a strong code of honor: when a lifer in the prison took the rap for the killing, Barrow and his gang broke him out. The book also suggests that Bonnie Parker...
- 7/25/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Top Us tennis player who won five Grand Slam titles in the 1940s
Pauline Betz, who has died aged 91, was a leading tennis player of the 1940s, winning five Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon in 1946, the first time she competed in the tournament. But she was never able to defend the title. The next year she became the victim of one of the worst examples of ruthless pomposity by amateur officials in the days when "professional" in sport was a dirty word.
Until the arrival of open tennis in 1968, anyone signing a contract with a professional promoter was immediately banned from all the world's great tournaments, such as Wimbledon and Roland Garros. But Betz was banned without even having signed a contract. In fact, it was only on the evidence of a letter written by a third party – Elwood Cooke, who was the husband of another player, Sarah Palfrey...
Pauline Betz, who has died aged 91, was a leading tennis player of the 1940s, winning five Grand Slam singles titles, including Wimbledon in 1946, the first time she competed in the tournament. But she was never able to defend the title. The next year she became the victim of one of the worst examples of ruthless pomposity by amateur officials in the days when "professional" in sport was a dirty word.
Until the arrival of open tennis in 1968, anyone signing a contract with a professional promoter was immediately banned from all the world's great tournaments, such as Wimbledon and Roland Garros. But Betz was banned without even having signed a contract. In fact, it was only on the evidence of a letter written by a third party – Elwood Cooke, who was the husband of another player, Sarah Palfrey...
- 6/20/2011
- by Richard Evans
- The Guardian - Film News
The first part of Bob Dylan's autobiography, "Chronicles: Volume One" spent a long time on the New York Times non-fiction best seller list in 2004 and fans have since been waiting for more. EW reports that Bob Dylan is returning to writing again, and rumored to have signed a six book deal with Simon & Schuster, his publisher for "Chronicles."
Dylan has yet to confirm the report himself, and he'd have to stop touring for the love of God, but the deal is rumored to include two more volumes of his Chronicles memoirs, and a book based on his Xm satellite radio show, "Theme Time Radio Hour." The subjects of the three remaining books are unknown.
Read this masterful excerpt from "Chronicles: Volume One," courtesy of NPR from a piece that included an interview with Dylan from the time of it's release in '04.
Lou introduced me to Jack Dempsey, the great boxer.
Dylan has yet to confirm the report himself, and he'd have to stop touring for the love of God, but the deal is rumored to include two more volumes of his Chronicles memoirs, and a book based on his Xm satellite radio show, "Theme Time Radio Hour." The subjects of the three remaining books are unknown.
Read this masterful excerpt from "Chronicles: Volume One," courtesy of NPR from a piece that included an interview with Dylan from the time of it's release in '04.
Lou introduced me to Jack Dempsey, the great boxer.
- 1/19/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Bill Nack is a born story-teller. The author of the biography Secretariat has enveloped me time and again in the fascination of his tales. That process began nearly 50 years ago at the University of Illinois, when we were both working on The Daily Illini. I was the editor, he was the sports editor, and then the following year he was the editor. He was also a natural writer -- and, perhaps more significantly, a natural reader. His taste was persuasive.
He approached literature like a gourmet. He relished it, savored it, inhaled it, and after memorizing it rolled it on his tongue and spoke it aloud. It was Nack who already knew in the early 1960s, when he was a very young man, that Nabokov was perhaps the supreme stylist of modern novelists. He recited to me from Lolita, and from Speak, Memory and Pnin. I was spellbound.
He knew...
He approached literature like a gourmet. He relished it, savored it, inhaled it, and after memorizing it rolled it on his tongue and spoke it aloud. It was Nack who already knew in the early 1960s, when he was a very young man, that Nabokov was perhaps the supreme stylist of modern novelists. He recited to me from Lolita, and from Speak, Memory and Pnin. I was spellbound.
He knew...
- 10/17/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Amelia would appear to be, on the surface at least, another biopic destined for award buzz. It isn’t. Instead, this aviation movie from director Mira Nair, based on the book East To The Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler, is a shockingly boring and sadly conventional film. I’d use the cliché “paint-by-numbers,” but the word “paint” may lead to “vivid colors” leading into creativity and passion for which Amelia has none.
While movies should appear within the framework of historical accuracy, they shouldn’t be beholden to them, which Amelia clearly is. Unlike Scorsese’s The Aviator, Amelia is a stuffy throwback that may have come straight out of 1950’s Hollywood –an unusual move for the usually neon Nair. Unfortunately, a History Channel special on the American Industrial Revolution has more flare.
Famed pilot and social pioneer, Amelia Earhart is purported to be a larger...
While movies should appear within the framework of historical accuracy, they shouldn’t be beholden to them, which Amelia clearly is. Unlike Scorsese’s The Aviator, Amelia is a stuffy throwback that may have come straight out of 1950’s Hollywood –an unusual move for the usually neon Nair. Unfortunately, a History Channel special on the American Industrial Revolution has more flare.
Famed pilot and social pioneer, Amelia Earhart is purported to be a larger...
- 2/12/2010
- by Erik Buckman
- ReelLoop.com
Craig Ferguson is not just a consummate entertainment professional. He's a five armed plate spinner, a punchline deliverer with a Jack Dempsey right cross, a Horatio Alger of guffaws. He puts his whole being into every late night show and comedy performance he does that he could even make an audience laugh if they were in total darkness.
Sound like a bigger tall tale than Pecos Bill taking Amelia Earhart to the homecoming prom? Here's the proof. His Late Late Show suffered a power outage towards the end of Tuesday night's episode and he still stepped in front of the camera with only a flashlight to serve as his comedy spotlight. This convinces me that if a bull suddenly got loose in the studio, Ferguson could use the moment to make the audience laugh until they are gasping for life while teaching the bull English just so he could beat an apology out of it.
Sound like a bigger tall tale than Pecos Bill taking Amelia Earhart to the homecoming prom? Here's the proof. His Late Late Show suffered a power outage towards the end of Tuesday night's episode and he still stepped in front of the camera with only a flashlight to serve as his comedy spotlight. This convinces me that if a bull suddenly got loose in the studio, Ferguson could use the moment to make the audience laugh until they are gasping for life while teaching the bull English just so he could beat an apology out of it.
- 10/29/2009
- by Danny Gallagher
- Aol TV.
Craig Ferguson is not just a consummate entertainment professional. He's a five armed plate spinner, a punchline deliverer with a Jack Dempsey right cross, a Horatio Alger of guffaws. He puts his whole being into every late night show and comedy performance he does that he could even make an audience laugh if they were in total darkness. Sound like a bigger tall tale than Pecos Bill taking Amelia Earhart to the homecoming prom? Here's the proof. His Late Late Show suffered a power outage towards the end of Tuesday night's episode and he still stepped in front of the...
- 10/29/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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