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Sports
November 16, 2006
News Flash!
It's hard being a sports journalist. There are only so many different ways to cover a game before all the angles are played out. So the diligent folks over at the Birmingham News did a little digging to uncover a news nugget that you might not have heard about. The headline says it all: "Better team usually wins."
Media
November 15, 2006
Like 'Groundhog Day,' if Bill Murray was a Cop with a Nice Ass
Is there a way to write about the new show Day Break—which stars Taye Diggs as a Los Angeles cop living the same day over and over again—without mentioning that its schtick bears more than a passing resemblance to the movie Groundhog Day? Let us answer that: No. A rough Gelf survey found that well over half of the reviews mention that the new show is like the Bill Murray masterpiece, but with a twist. Here our some of our favorite comparisons:
Sports
November 13, 2006
Doyel Hates the Haters
When SportsLine columnist Gregg Doyel gets hate mail, he gets Googling. In a childish, creepy prank called out by Deadspin, Doyel responded to angry letters last month with digs at his readers, based on info he gathered about them online. Gelf contacted a couple of his targets, who were unimpressed.
Media
November 13, 2006
I Like! (Some But Not All Things About This Movie)
In this week's edition of Blurb Racket—the Gelf feature in which we take a close look at those critic blurbs that are a fixture of ads for movies—see breakdowns of blurbs for Borat, Volver, Babel, and more. This week's Bogus Blurb of the Week comes in an ad for A Good Year:
Media
November 12, 2006
#$&%ing Movies
"Who the fuck is Jackson Pollock?" That's what Teri Horton asked her art teacher friend after the latter suggested that Horton's newest thrift shop purchase might be a Pollock original worth far more than the $5 she paid for it. Horton's subsequent quest to find out if her friend's hunch is correct is the subject of a new documentary opening in New York on November 15, entitled "Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock?"
Media
November 9, 2006
Oops! Britney's Chaotic Prerogative Proves Toxic One More Time
As the breaking news banner alerted CNN readers on Election Day, Britney Spears has indeed decided to divorce her husband of two years, Kevin Federline (or, as many publications now refer to him, Fed-Ex). It's a momentous event for the US Weekly crowd, one that deserves splashy writing and, of course, a witty headline. Many editors decided that references to Spears's songs were in order.
Sports
November 9, 2006
Tom Candiotti's Tall Tale
Last month, former pitcher Tom Candiotti told the San Francisco Chronicle a remarkable story about how he used his influence to help his fantasy team back when he was a pitcher for the Dodgers. He claimed that in order to bolster his fantasy numbers, he told a fib that launched a thousand plunkings of the widely disliked Jeff Kent, many of them by Dominican pitchers. Turns out, the story is too good to be true.
Politics
November 8, 2006
The South Dakota Disconnect
South Dakota voters defeated the state ban on all abortions on Tuesday by a 12 percent margin (Rapid City Journal). This defeat means greater freedom of choice for South Dakota women, and it means that the ban will not go further in the judicial process. What it also means, though, is that South Dakota's legislature has not been pursuing the will of its constituents.
Politics
November 7, 2006
No Oscar for Kean Campaign
Institutional memory is important at newspapers. Consider how it helped a reporter undermine a political candidate's aborted effort to smear his rival ahead of today's election.
Sports
November 6, 2006
Be Conservative or Be Ridiculed
When Bill Parcells opted to go for a two-point conversion early in the second quarter of the Cowboys-Redskins game on Sunday, it marked the first time this year that a team has gone for two—instead of settling for a near-automatic, one-point kick— in the first half. And because the game—which the Cowboys lost—was tied until the final seconds, Parcells has been mocked mercilessly in the press for his decision that ended up costing his team a precious point. Yes, the choice was unusual. But was it wrong?
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