The “Beautiful Game”
While the world’s sports journalists fill our airwaves with reports about Uruguay’s Luis Suarez, the soccer-playing lout who likes to bite other players, I’m still waiting for a feel-good story about those lovable Brazilian football fans who last year decapitated a referee and put his head on a stake.
What, you hadn’t heard about that? It’s the one-year anniversary next week – Google it!
A “beautiful game,” indeed.
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The Huffington Post’s TV critics, of all people, have been on an amusing rampage. First, Maureen Ryan had an emotional meltdown (“I’m done!”) over what she perceived as a sexist new series, FX’s The Tyrant. Then the Post published an article about “overrated” TV series that included these shows, some of which you probably know: Girls, Seinfeld, Scandal, Boardwalk Empire, Orphan Black, Mad Men, Orange Is the New Black, and South Park.
You go, Post!
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Big Brother is back, and I’m pulling for Amber, pictured above. Assuming, of course, that she can make it out of that house of lunatics in one piece.
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The Huffington Post is still looking for … well, you know the drill.
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