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I'd love to sit here and talk about and predict the final four teams in the vastly underrated FCS playoffs this week, which happen to feature the top four seeds and No. 1 Sam Houston State looking to run the table. However, my favorite and defending National Champions Eastern Washington have long been ousted and the players you and I could name in the playoffs could probably be counted on one

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Considering there's only one college game on this week, a short FFB might be in order. But, that game just happens to be the usually entertaining Army-Navy tilt, which always had me wondering...why does Army always get top billing? Alphabet? Older academy? These are questions we will never know, friends (but it's probably on Wikipedia somewhere). Last week: 7-4Season total: 73-69-1Army vs. Navy,

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Another week, another losing record. In all fairness, I've been profoundly bad at these over/unders, so if I even sniff .500 on those this week it'll be a minor Christmas miracle. This is always kind of a weird week for college football--most teams have already packed it in, except for the shitty conferences and the good conferences' best teams. Oh, and Army-Navy, er, that's next week, actually.

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Jack Del Rio is out as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, just hours after the Florida Times Union went ahead with a lengthy front page sports article about owner Wayne Weaver's patience and insistence on keeping the third longest tenured coach in the NFL. However, a bigger power play was at hand when it was announced shortly before noon that Weaver had sold, in principle, the majority of

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Sometime around 5PM EST today Urban Meyer will be sworn in as the new head ball coach at Ohio State University. Apparently turning his back on his alleged "health and family issues," Urban will replace unseated coach Jim Tressel and take the reigns from interim lackey Luke Fickell. There are just a few problems I have with this whole ordeal. You remember less than a month ago when the phrases "

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Welcome back, internet! Only I can successfully predict wrong all four of my over unders, have way too much faith in the disaster that is the San Diego Chargers, and realize hours before kickoff that this would be a game that the Giants crap themselves, especially against a backup quarterback. All that jazz left me with a sore 3-8 mark last week, but it's the holiday, so a bounce back seems more

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As many of you have already heard, The Internet Body is trying to censor what we say and do on here...including my right to pick terribly at football games. Will we stand for it? NO! They even showed me last week by only handing me one loss. Those cruel, cruel devils. Last week: 8-1Season: 58-51-1Nebraska at Michigan - PICK EM These will mostly be brief, as I am in a time crunch today. The Big

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I'm going to try and write this in spite of one of the biggest news stories to envelop collegiate sports and gravitate toward the non-sports watching public. I'm talking, of course, about the recent Athletic Director firing at UCF and suspension of head hoops coach and former UF coaching badass Donnie Jones. C'mon, Knightro, get your boys together! In other news, I went a putrid 4-7 last week,

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I love it when you can find a pretty funny video (usually by a comedy troupe) and watch everything in that poster's arsenal within a week until you've gorged yourself on their craft to point where you get this feeling you've known about this person for years and even feel like you two have had a moment or two. Jenna Marbles has really, really popular videos on the YouTube and here is why you

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You get it?! Who instead of U?!?!?! Oh man, I hate that damn joke, but not as much as I hate Nick Saban's insincere smirk and his Roll Tide nonsense. I was really hoping that LSU would be knocked off earlier, and then beat Bama at home, but now it looks like one of these teams is definitely lined up for a trip to the BCS Title game, short of any Iron Bowl mishap or someone from the SEC East

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"Wait, Linc Potter is June Stahl?!?" Wait, other Corgi, another plot line involving a hit on another old lady that looks to go terribly wrong? Walp, it was nice knowing you, Tara Knowles. You sure were purdy like... Spoilers for 4th season of Sons of Anarchy are ahead, but if you're only 2 or 5 episodes removed, there's not much I can spoil for you after the jump! I've been in the camp as of

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Personally, the tempo of this song is way too sporadic, but the titular chorus does sound excellent over sports montages of people getting their asses kicked. The real winner here is the music video, which reminds me of an unholy amalgamation of Winter's Bone and Over the Top, with just a touch of those kinds of movies chicks dig where the man and woman overcome distance and hardship to have a

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It's been 14 years since a new episode of Beavis and Butt-head has hit airwaves, and I'd say close to 7 or 8 years since the program has been shown on syndication on a major cable network. Needless to say, aging fans of the stupid comedy can rejoice, because last night marked Mike Judge's return to Highland in grandiose fashion. To be honest, I wasn't a diehard fan, as I could readily except the

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I thought bumping my picks up to 15 last week to give me a nice, rounded metric record would be a good thing, then something happened. I went 2-6 on the college football part, the one that's supposed to be the easier part. Later that weekend, in a sheer M. Night bizarro twist, I went 6-0 for my NFL Sunday games before graciously missing the Jags Monday Night game. I still don't think reaching my

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In case my large viewership in Belarus didn't understand that reference about UCLA last night, here's what happened right before the half. I turned it off after 14-0, and honestly, this was probably the most fire the Bruins showed all game. Seriously, watch that and ask, "da Hell, Arizona?" I think the only talking point (besides that UCLA head ball coach Rick Neuheisel probably needs to make a

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Pretty big setback last week as I tried my first venture into the vaunted over/under pick. Hey, I thought they would be easier, and I wouldn't have to pick against my favorite teams. After going 0-2 in those and then completely failing to gauge anything in the NFL world, I finished with a losing record. At least UCLA didn't lose get embarrassed on national 3D TV get overshadowed by a streaker

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I haven't been less excited for a football weekend in a while. The Jags and Eagles are chumming it up at 1-4 while the Packers get to play a CFL team this week. The Gators played a kid who isn't a quarterback at quarterback last week and look poised to get jacked up at Auburn. And Pitt lost by 300 to Rutgers last week. Good thing there's great baseball and a wrestling PPV to stand on this weekend

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It's that time of the week again, friends. And no, I'm not Jim Nantz, but after a 6-4 record last week I can feel that perfect week coming. It's Red River Shootout Rivalry F*%^ You Big 12 Week, so let's not waste any more time. Oh, and bye weeks start in the NFL and the Jags might be blacked out. Who brought the Schlitz? Last week: 6-4Season: 22-23(3) Oklahoma vs. (11) Texas, 12PM EST ABC Once

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Are people watching ABC's Happy Endings or what? Kooky subplots and stereotypes aside, this show produces laughter from my gullet and the quality trend of distinctive guest hosts helps that process. On last night's episode, Penny and Alex meet up with a trio of high school mean girls, led by out-of-your-league hot Chloe. I definitely couldn't put my finger on who she was, but man have I seen her

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Premiering tonight is FX's soiree into the horror genre, American Horror Story, starring, among other notables, Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton. Also, recurring the role as worrisome teenage daughter in a horror situation is the lovely Taissa Farmiga. If that name sounds familiar, it's because yes, she's Vera Farmiga's daughter sister. What?! Vera, while still looking great, appears to have a

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The college football schedule this weekend, save the two big games at 8PM, looks pretty meek. I could pick the Gators/Tide game, but I'm so pessimistic as a Florida fan that I couldn't justify it when, in a possible defeat, my mind tricks me into having some solace about "having seen it coming." With that said, the Swamp needs to get loud and loud early tonight. I can't stress enough how

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Ohhhhh, I get it. ......(I still don't get it...) It's gotten so out of control that people are parodying it and making apps. This one is real. Good to know this dime lives in the Milky Way.

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So, this is anti-coning. Anyone else heard of this new "fad?" Come on, America--this is why we can't have nice things. There are several videos of this online, and from the post dates this has been a thing for a while now. Hmm, maybe The Office will mention it in Season 11. Actually, the one where the dude grabs the cone whole and bites off the bottom is pretty funny, but once this gets done to

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I think I'm done picking Jags game, partly because when I pick against them, they win, and when I pick them to cover, they fall miserably on their whiskered faces. I tend to overanalyze things, when in reality I should just be watching, kicking back with a beer, and fist pumping whenever Maurice Jones-Drew picks up three defenders and drags them across the chains. I would just be remiss, however,

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Yeah, whatever. Chokeahassee is probably one of the least original and clever things I've come up with, but I still think I could hold a more insightful conversation with someone who blasts that instead of Bayou sympathizers that spell things with 'eaux' or non Gator fans who put an extra emphasis on that first team name syllable. Cool, bro. You're homophobic, a dolt, and your nine years old.

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After several duets, performances, insane circus acts, and drama, old time crooner and current car wash specialist Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. was voted in as the Season 6 winner of America's Got Talent, granting him the million dollar grand prize and headlining act in Las Vegas. LEM2 with Patti LaBelle After witnessing what I called the "predictable unpredictability" of this show last season and

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The internet here has been shaky at best lately, which explains the tardiness of this post. However, NBC dropped the ball when some cameraman slipped on his egg salad sandwich and sent the entire show into retread clips and not seeing the entirety of the Silhouettes performance. Well, unless you were watching live, in which case you lost several minutes of the Parenthood. That's probably for the

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Hmmmph. I've had better, I suppose. The video is cool, and this new album seems promising, but I keep finding myself hearkening back to the days of when Funeral For a Friend kicked endless amounts of ass. Not just occasional amounts. Stay golden, boys. More to the point, never grow old. "Sixteen" is also about that. Hooray for nostalgia!

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Yeah, yeah, I know it's Thursday, but I just had to get my two cents in about the Packers-Saints tilt that's kicking off the NFL season. Hell, even Kid Rock will be there. Kid Rock in Lambeau...is that what Heaven's like? Week 1 is always the hardest because of the sheer amount of teams bunched together in the "we gotta chance this season, Elrod" pile. I'll be happy to get six of these right. On

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Last night, the field for America's Got Talent was trimmed from ten finalists to four, um....super-finalists? I'm not sure about their nomenclature, but regardless, four acts were voted through by the fans for the right to perform for the one million dollar prize and a headlining Vegas act. Advancing last night were Silhouettes, Team iLuminate, POPLYFE, and Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr.. None of

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Episode a million catrillion Brazilian kicked off having to stretch ten acts over two hours. So after some wining and dining clips of the judges and contestants and an regrettably boring performance by last year's champ, Michael Grimm, the show finally kicked in after twenty minutes. Kind of like Xanax. Here's what happened: 1. Miami All-Stars - From an aesthetics stand point, the team looked

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The second stab at covering the ongoing legal affairs of the murders on three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas delves into the possibility that the alleged and convicted murderers are actually innocent, or at the very least, not guilty. Four years after the critically acclaimed 1996 HBO feature of the same name, we are now seven years removed from the tragedy and Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin,

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Football, it's back! The brunt of the college schedule kicks off this Labor Day weekend, with the NFL following suit next week. And no, I didn't acknowledge Wisconsin's drubbing of UNLV last night (so long, Buckeyes!) and wow, Mississippi State played? And won by 45? Color me impressed, Starkeville! Here are some games you definitely want to watch over the weekend. All listed games Saturday. (5)

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Finally, after prognosticating all season, I figured you out, America. After several weeks of just missing out on the AGT Powerball that is all acts picked correctly, I had all five acts selected. With 4 out of 5 in last week's semifinal, batting .900 for the round ain't too shabby. Silhouettes kicked off the show by being dragged out with Gymkana and Steven Retchless in what seemed like the

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by guest blogger Orthon de la Verde of BlindingLoad.com What's up, Playing Field people? I'm filling in for Panther who is off doing taxes or something. Whatever, he asked me to do a review of America's Got Talent, and lemme tell ya, this show blows chunks. Big ol' half digested Weekend Warrior Denny's chunks. Without further Apu*... 1. The Kinetic King - This dude must be slayin' all sorts of

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I've been about a month sober from watching movies, but a double feature callback on HBO of Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and it's followup sequel ended that streak pretty quickly. The story of the infamous West Memphis Three had picked up steam this past year, so this had been one of those "gotta see it" picks on my Netflix queue that just never floated to the top. To

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This was one of the songs Lil Wayne performed, er, blabbled under bleeps to close out the VMAs. And holy rollers is Wayne as awful as he's always been. The repetitive statement "I gotta chopper in the car" does nothing for the song, but perhaps stunts the rhythm by not meshing well with Wayne's occasionally clever ad libs. I was also severely disappointed that there was no use of Black Sabbath's

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Last night was one of those nights where I did a Chad Henne checkdown of the different things I could watch on television. There wasn't a wrestling pay-per-view on, and the Angels-Rangers game was quickly turning into which good starting pitcher could suck the most. Breaking Bad was safely recording on a DVR, so then I remembered there was a preseason game on NBC with the Saints. That was fun for

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The less words I write about this dynamic synth piece, the better. Yeah, I know I ragged on Foster The People for synth lyrics, but the tone of that song didn't match up--this piece by unheralded Awolnation is just scary. Do something dangerous while listening. Fight the somber thoughts from your head. This song is a negative chi laxative. "this is how an angel cries..."

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Wow, I guess it's pretty cool that the same banner image remains appropriate for two days in a row. Not too much has actually shocked me on AGT in my second season, but Daniel Joseph Baker losing out to West Springfield Dance Team in the vote really threw me for a fierce, glittered loop. The kid shouldn't have even been up there. It was your normal Results episode, with about five to ten minutes

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The first twelve "best of the best" are out of the gate this week to mixed results. Seriously, how many times could one of the hosts or contestants have said something along the lines of "the very best" or "the bar has been raised" and "no room for error, we are the best, the best of the best, and nothing but the best!" Bitch, please. Save that kind of chicanery for the Finals (which I mind you,

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Last night, the Wildcard round was completed as four more acts joined the previous 20 advancing acts to form the unholy alliance known as the semifinals. The remaining 24 will compete over two weeks in groups of 12, with five advancing each week to form ten finalists. Holy crap I'm already burned out on this premise. The Kinetic King, West Springfield Dance Team, and Landon Swank all advanced via

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I tapped out of the Youtube episode last week, but you guys didn't much at all. Hopefully tonight will be better. For my sanity, mostly. Let's fire this cannon! Note: these are all acts that didn't make it through qualifying or quarterfinals and were brought back for a second chance. I honestly don't see any of them advancing to the finals. So yeah, America. Get excited! 1. The Kinetic King -

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What's that thing the kids say these days? SMH? How do you pronounce that? S'meh?! Anyway, the Tulsa Shock are creating new levels of awful, rolling off a million losses in a row now to drop to 1-22 on the season. What, really? Half of women's basketball is luck...just chuck that thing up there, let it bounce and grab it and try again. How hard can that be? Is it because this awkward white guy is

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Hey, did you know 20 million people watched the Indian MasterChef finale last year? Damn. Bengali Gordon Ramsay must be a hoot. But none of that matters because the best home cooks come from America, and Indian food is just American food with a metric f*ck ton of cumin in it. At least that's what Food Network says. I was originally skeptical of a cooking/reality show that didn't air on FN, but I

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I guess I entered a crappy network warp because all of a sudden AGT became So You Think You Dance With Props and Stuff. The top three acts advancing tonight were all dance variety acts, and the wild card surprisingly went to a comedian (once again, RIP Greg Giraldo). The show started off with a unique, unpredictable twist, in that Nick Cannon called out four acts: Avery and The Calico Hearts,

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This is going to be a relatively short, simplified version of my usual recaps--Cox Cable wigged out tonight and I totally missed the big screen performances of at least one act. I also expected more train wrecks this episode, but for the most part everything was smooth sailing. Except... 1. The Kinetic King - Hands down the most disastrous act in the two seasons I've been watching. KK didn't

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America, you bore me to tears. Once again, singing was at the forefront, nabbing three of top four spots, along with one variety act. To start things off, Nick Cannon called for the Summerwind Skippers, Ian Johnson, and the Purrfect Angelz, with the implication that only one would go through to the next round. If you watched last year (or probably even any years) you know where they are going

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A little part of me dies every time I do a recap like this...how in the hell has Jillian Madison of PopHangover done this for the better part of 15 years? Anyway, last night I was finally able to see The Purrfect Angelz perform, and afterward all I could muster was a high pitched, phalanges-waving "meh!" One act in particular excelled last night, but dammit if this won't be the toughest one to

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I want this. Forever. Whatever it is. Just keep talking.

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Tonight we found out the next four acts moving on to the round of 24 semifinals, bolstering the field with more singers, dancers, and...bikers? When it was down to the 4th and 5th place voted acts, it was a head-to-head battle between Smage Bros. Riding Shows and Alaskan magician Landon Swank. Sharon opened up the voting by saying Landon's delivery was a bit slow and gave the nod to Smage Bros.

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If this series doesn't always warm your heart to a toasty, cinnamon bun level consistency, then you are probably the son of Satan and/or hate the Gators. The ESPN My Wish series is usually pretty good, but this one just went over the top with the cool factor. Such as... (spoilers?) -That family has what kind of a dog? A corgi. God bless. -Tebow in Orlando riding one of those bike/golf cart

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I'm not gonna even beat around the bush with this one. Most everything, save for the little number that went last, was ill conceived, boring, or just plain average. Let's do a rundown followed by predictions. 1. Attack Dance Crew - I used to think that all dance troupes were kind of in this same boat of doing impressive stuff but never impressing a satiated audience, and now I still feel that

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After several differing acts, ranging from motorcycle stunts to parrot routines, performed Tuesday, the votes are in and we have our first four acts moving on to the semifinals. The top three in voting this week were in no revealed order: Snap Boogie, Anna Graceman, and Sandou Trio Russian Bar. When everyone else was systematically eliminated from the top five, only The Fiddleheads and the Miami

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The quarterfinals started Tuesday night, meaning the first 12 of 48 perform live against each other in Hollywood, all vying for the votes of American viewers. If the format hasn't changed from last year, the top three vote getters move on automatically, while the three judges choose between the 4th and 5th place acts. Here's what went down last night: 1. Miami All Stars - While good dancers,

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Hey, not all music featured on this site is what I consider good, or largely entertaining, but I hear this a ton on alternative radio and can't get past it's awful catchy tune. You really should appreciate what's going on here--this dude HATES kids who pump up shoes, which I thought died out right around the time Space Jam was being announced. He hates them so much that he is going to shoot them

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Finally, and I mean finally, the auditions are complete on AGT and Vegas Week came and went on Tuesday and Wednesday, narrowing the field down to a svelte 48. If you've never tuned in, the format loosely follows that everyone auditions in their respective cities, and if they are good enough in front of the live audience and the judges, they advance to Las Vegas. From there, all the advanced

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COX Cable is telling me that there is FOUR hours of AGT programming on this week, with three of those happening Tuesday night, including this last hour audition episode. I'm not sure how much longer I can do these...I can only endure so much internal struggling between the merits of a comedic guitar player and a guy who lights himself on fire and plays poker with a grizzly bear. One of those

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I'm not guilty of a lot of things, but one thing I am definitely, without a shadow of a doubt guilty of is wanting Dwight Howard to stay in Orlando! Come on, big guy, in the spirit of Florida, great weather, partying, and no worries, stay with the team and show the city that you're destined to bring them hardware. Plus, we've got Disney World! Drop those kids off and ball all day. We'll even name

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If there was a show called America's Got Magicians, I'd probably stop stop watching this all together because the masters of the illusion are by far my favorite part of AGT. On Wednesday's episode, Fantastic Fig stole the show, doing sleek card tricks, wooing ladies, and...ugh...he's got a f*#@ing cat on his shoulder. Seriously, it just stays there, perched on his shoulder like a damned parrot. I

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I'm not sure how we've gotten to episode nine already...perhaps AGT lost track of space and time. I took off last week because I hated the acts so much that I wanted to punch my face with my television and not expose you lovely people to the carnage. At least last's night round in New York gave us something to gnaw on. The most worthy act of the night came from eccentric Leo the Magnificent, who

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For the most part I like Dwight Howard. He's solidified himself as a pure, unstoppable center in an NBA era when the center is all but an afterthought. When asked about his plans should a lockout be on the horizon at a recent presser, Howard jokingly said he was getting into the cockfighting and curling business. The original video has seemed to elude me, but here's exactly what the marquee Magic

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I wish I could tell you that Burning Palms was a bad movie, or a good one, or maybe even a sinister, cold blooded affair with no emotion. Perhaps it was a sick movie with a justified sense of dark humor which some people may never appreciate. But I'm not entirely sure it was a movie at all. Advertised as five dark stories set across suburban Los Angeles that will offend your senses, writer and

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If you listen to this song at first and don't enjoy it, give it a few more tries. If you still don't dig the swag, consult a physician because you may not have ears. I won't advertise this more than I have to...as of today the damn song has 3.4 millions views and just last week she had officially signed with Columbia Records, which I hear is a big deal. I do appreciate her message, though. Why

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New episodes of the Travel Channel's hit show Man v. Food have been scarce since season three wrapped up last October, but a couple of weeks ago host Adam Richman debuted a new spinoff show, Man v. Food Nation, in hopes of replacing its predecessor. For those who've never seen the spectacle, Richman tours different cities and stops by the local eateries before landing upon a particular restaurant

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"Every time a delicate piece of fish gets handled with tongs, God kills a puppy..." How in the great reign of Jon Benjamin shows, Timmy Tebow, and Chipotle did I miss the boat on Gordon Ramsay? FOX is a couple of weeks into their second season of MasterChef, the competition based show that takes home cooks through the ringer to determine who is the best at the art of cooking. Of course, the

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The players and staff of the World Champion Green Bay Packers received their commemorative rings this week, and sheesh! Those things are getting all the more ridiculous every year. For comparison, just rifle through a history of all 45 rings...those early ones look like the high school variety. Regardless, any way you spin it those things are beautiful, if nothing more for the gem nerds...what do

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Sometimes straight-to-DVD movies are passingly bad yet oddly entertaining because of one guy. It's from the Steve Seagal playbook and Steve Austin's Hunt to Kill was no exception. The most intriguing part of this film was that it starts off with the events directly following some sort of bank heist with an cat and mouse tale afterwards. I thought it was pretty ballsy to completely leave out the

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Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) remains one of my favorite male vocalists, so don't be surprised when I say that I snapped up Fort Minor's debut album right when it came out. And believe you me, this, as well as "Remember the Name" were the two tracks that helped the album The Rising Tied reach international success. But wait, where's Skylar Grey? Skylar. Holly. Grey. Brook. Finkle. Einhorn.....

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ESPN The Magazine released their annual Ultimate Standings this week, and, what do we have here? It looks like the Green Bay Packers top the list of 122 professional sports team in the country. Didn't they win the Super Title or something...against the Steelers? I don't know. While I obviously appreciate the pick, this list should have been compiled after the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Final were

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Comedy Central has been on fire lately, unleashing hits like The Sports Show and Workaholics this Spring and following it up with Jon Benjamin Has a Van, which debuted Tuesday night. It's hard to really describe what this show is about, other than it's a sketch comedy show, ranging from quick thirty second bits to coverage pieces and gags that span multiple segments. Benjamin is one of those guys

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Only in hockey can the real story devolve into Hollywood North burning themselves to the ground. Hey, next time tell the Sedin boys that an important hockey series is going on. Remember when Henrik was the MVP last year? And when Daniel scored the most points this year? Ugh. Way to let Patty "Forever Concussed" Bergeron show you up in the biggest game of the year on your home ice. But what the

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Mercifully there's only one hour of AGT on this week, but I'll still be here to weed out all the crap and showcase what's worth watching. This episode came to us from Seattle which....wait. There's only been five episodes and this is the second one from Seattle? Shit, NBC, there are at least forty other viable cities to hunt for weirdos and cute children and comely singers, but Seattle seems like

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Comedy Central knew they were on to something when Workaholics aired as a sneak peak directly after the world premiere of Donald Trump's Roast. Come a month later and the show is getting the coveted 10:30 PM EST time slot behind new episodes of South Park. I'm going ahead and calling the ten episode first season of Workaholics a success. It's already been renewed for a second season, and for the

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"We loved him a lot, but God loved him more" Ahhh, tricked again. Skylar Grey is belting out the chorus on this one, but she's nowhere to be found singing in this video. Just an appearance as Dr. Dre's "Robocop" doctor. You see, he needs a doctor, because he flipped his car doing twice the speed limit. And Skylar's there to fix him and Eminem is there willing and rapping Dre back to health in

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Sports piss me off right now, so what better omnibus to dust off than the original garage band column that started it all...Rant and Rave? Hockey is winding down in what's turning out to be a spectacular Stanley Cup Final...the stars are out for the NBA Finals and it appears that King James will finally bring home the hardware...the Pittsburgh Pirates don't have a losing record and it's no longer

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Last night were the auditions from Houston and Minneapolis and both cities somewhat broke the mold from the occasional stale rotation of acts we usually see on this program. My nod of the night goes to the performance group known as The Silhouettes, a team of over 30 students between the ages of 9 and 18 years old who did this... It's rare that I'll go as far as calling something "nutso," but

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Last night was a pretty banging lineup of shows, with nothing quite as banging as Playing Field favorite, Kate Upton appearing on the increasingly homoerotic Tosh.0 show. The writing for "Knife or Banana?" was sharp, but the real story was booking what I'm calling the breakout SI model in the next couple of years on a lowly cable channel dependent on Youtube videos. Enjoy! Tosh.0Tuesdays 10pm /

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Starting tonight the Florida Gators will embark on a best-of-3 series with Arizona State to determine the 2011 National Champion. It wasn't easy, though, as the Gators had to endure a frustrating loss to the Sun Devils earlier on in the World Series, followed by a doubleheader against Alabama and their world beater pitcher Kelsi Dunne. I started following the softball team a couple of years after

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I really don't know what we are doing here. Skylar Grey June Celebration Month of Spectacular Times? That sounds good. She's super hot, guys. Anyway, I could have sworn to a lesser god that I featured this song on here before because it's one of my absolute favorites. I used to really like the stuff that Puff Daddy was putting out, especially while still under that moniker. Remember his Biggy

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Season 6 of the summer long talent show on NBC is back and so to are judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne, and Howie Mandell. Nick Cannon came back...the format is still the same...the set looks no different...the jokes are the same...Howie and Piers' forced combativeness is still omnipresent...the acts featured in the Los Angeles and Atlanta auditions also looked very similar. Yep, the more

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If you blinked you may have missed the (relatively) hit new sitcom, Happy Endings, which burned through twelve season 1 episodes in a mere seven weeks on a very busy Wednesday night time slot, 10PM. That means it was going heads up against two very successful network cop procedural brands and a mildly successful animated comedy about four Colorado boys in poofball hats. Created by David Caspe,

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Wow, a remix of that would make a pretty gnarly stadium jam. I was originally thinking Dodgers, but there's no way they would allow "Red Nation" to blast over their speakers and trot Matt Kemp up to bat. LA Angels, you want any of this? I really can't say how excited I am to have some new Game tracks hit the internet. Right now, I would definitely put him in my top three favorite rap artists,

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In an era when DVR is king, it's hard to really describe just how awful some commercial are. Either you don't watch that much television, you aren't in the market that plays these kind of ads all the time, or you skip over it all, never reveling in the greatness that is the Certain Dri awkward, sweaty dinner party first encounter. First, what clueless woman just announces how sweaty she is to a

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A Torrid Kristen Bell Spring continues at The Playing Field as I checked out the comedy, When In Rome, starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel. While at times marred with romantic comedy cliches and a plot that broaches the finer points of earth realm possibility and reason, this film was genuinely funny throughout. I should probably catch you up on the "deets" before rambling on about Kristen's

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All kidding aside, I find this to be one of the more controversial stories coming from our Armed Forces in a while. I definitely think you should take the two minutes and read Dan Elliott's account of Pfc. David Lawrence, who will be sentenced for murdering an Afghan Taliban prisoner. Lawrence was on guard duty at the time, and the report says the prisoner was asleep, but the real curve ball

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The Experiment was a straight-to-disc film released in 2010 that follows more than a dozen men who sign up for a psychological experiment involving role play in the prison system. According to imdb.com, this version was a remake of a German film that was based off a book that recounted the true story of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Basically, you were either randomly assigned as a guard or

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I've been watching the latest reboot of the competition show Tough Enough and this fire is the opening credits music. I normally fast forward through all opening credits, but this song sticks to me every time I hear the first few notes, so after eight or so episodes I mustered up the courage to find out more about the song. Chris Brown?! Chrisbrown?!? That R&B punk?! I'll give credit where

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It sucks to rehash what happened, but if you haven't heard by now, Randy Savage suffered a massive heart attack while driving down in Tampa with this wife, sending their car across a median and into a tree. His wife is reportedly okay, but wrestling fans lost a true pioneer today. When you talk about game changers, a select few names come to mind. Hogan, Savage, Piper, Flair...all these guys

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The CW's cheer-centric Tuesday show, Hellcats, has been canceled, while the network renews something called One Tree Hill and La Femme Nikita. Even though you can clearly read my abysmal forecast for the show, as well as my timid enjoyment after the pilot, I actually stuck around for the entire September to May season. Even though I enjoyed the run, I'm not going to sugarcoat it and lie to you--

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No, no, this isn't actually a double feature...I just happened to watch two Odette movies in two consecutive days. The kicker? I was originally tuning in to see such favorites as Kristen Bell and Amber Heard, and Odette happened to be playing the auxiliary fiddle in both flicks. Oh, I see. You don't know who Odette Yustman is? Well, I've now seen three of her movies and they're all pretty lame,

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Ahhh, Trik Turner, one of my favorite high school era one hit wonders. But what a hit that was, and if you missed the music video (all three or however many alternates there were) than you really couldn't grasp the scope of what a few guys probably poured their heart into, manufacturing a gold mine of tame, MTV success, and in turn, (spoiler alert!), supporting their families! I'm all for

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Over the past year I've become a fan of Saturday Night Live, a show that's fallen out of favor with a lot of past fans but also a show that brilliantly demonstrates what actors like Andy Samberg can achieve through both taped and live segments. I expected a comedy that was good enough to pass the time, but I regret to inform you that this was one of the more enjoyable flicks I've seen in 2011.

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If you're one of those people that suggest and swear by foreign movies in a clouded attempt to make yourself appear more cultured and worldly, I strongly dislike your unpatriotic ass. If you're Norwegian and like The Troll Hunter, whatever, dude. I'm pretty sure that's not what trolls look like, and your country looks like it sucks hard. When a friend came to me and said this was the coolest new

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I guess Maxim's compiled list of attractive people is the Wrestlemania of hot chick blogging, so I take notice. I gave a rundown of last year's installment and looking back, I undervalued some sleepers while shaking my head over recent Dime slumps. Once again, this is by no means a glorification of their "work", as I don't subscribe to Maxim (neither in the business nor proverbial sense), but

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Talking about the WWE isn't really my strong suit--I only just recently started watching their programs since January after not keeping up since 2002, so I'm pretty damn green when it comes to story lines. The art of telling a good story in the squared circle isn't completely dead, but it takes a head shot when Christian wins his first ever Heavyweight title and drops it two nights later to WWE's

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This is a video San Francisco Giants players Brian Wilson and Cody "don't call me David" Ross made in conjunction with a fundraiser focusing on a rare growth disorder that effects kids. It's called MPS Type 6 and the teenager in this video, Keenan Cahill, suffers from it.In a world where star athletes are always the talk of the town because of their infidelities, recklessly driving 60 mph over

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I don't remember a show on HBO that has garnered as much hype and anticipation as Game of Thrones, a fantasy novel adaptation that debuted Sunday night. I initially wasn't going to check this show out, but after remembering the somewhat modest promotion of Boardwalk Empire (which ended up being one of my favorite shows of the season) last year, I had to at least give GoT a fair shake. In all

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In case you haven't realized, Mac Miller has become the unofficial house band of TPF. It's kind of justified, though. The guy goes out and produces tons of music videos, is constantly writing new stuff, and never takes himself too seriously. The coolest part...Mac represents the fine things in life...Yoplait yogurt, John Morrell Off the Bone cold cuts, and having pillow fights with three coeds.

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Looks like the fine folks over at American Movie Classics is bringing us a good ole 'whodunit' miniseries, which always have arguably the potential for a perfect show. One season, stuffed with violence, mystery, DRAMA, adultery, white women running through the woods, wise-ass teenagers, overacting authority figures, etc.. These types of shows don't last long, usually wrap up almost every loose

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