Reads of the Week: Skip Leaves, Kevlar Cups, and Austen Prose

Chile this week was a MESS. Blog went to hell, the finals went 7 Games, I was trine schedule and organize so many things. The issues on my blog seem to be fixed for now, so how about an awesome look at cool posts from other blogs. Even as a long time watcher of ESPN

On the Floor #22: Slaydele, Gus Kenworthy and Fan Fiction Foolery

We’ve been gone for a minute but now we’re back with a new podcast. Enjoy this wide ranging discussion including us talking about new music (Adele! The Game!), our thoughts on Crimson Peak, Gus Kenworthy’s coming out, and the fan fiction flap derived from Teen magazine. Enjoy! Direct Download //html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3888173/height/360/width/640/theme/legacy/direction/no/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/

Michael Sam Comes Out, On Precipice of Being NFL’s First Openly Gay Player

It’s kind of kismet that something like this happens amidst an Olympics that’s being played against the backdrop of Russia’s anti-gay legislation. Though we all know it would happen, it seems the time has finally come for an NFL player to announce that they were gay. Missouri DE Michael Sam announced today that he is

Alex Rodriguez and Baseball’s Ever Shifting Moral Center

And you thought the only thing I talked about here was Teen Wolf! It’s been a while since I’ve addressed anything to do with sports on the blog, but I have so much time on my hands these days I figured it’d be fun to go back to that well. Since I’ve moved to LA I have been able to catch up on baseball, thanks to Time Warner’s great selection of channels (one of these days I’ll tell yall about the bullshit they pull in Texas). Of course this coincided with Alex Rodriguez’ return to the Yankees and no matter which of the 5 million ESPNs there are or Fox, you can’t escape the conversation. I mean ESPN broke from it’s Wednesday Night Baseball feed just to show us ARod’s at bats, as if we’d see him juicing on TV. This crazy coverage and the fallout from the biogenesis clinic have me pondering some things reagrding MLB.

Posts of the Week

Just thought I’d start doing this to share news that I’ve enjoyed reading this week. Cinemablend: Want to get the DL on when its ok to spoil a movie or tv show? Check out this article (with some a-mahzing photoshop.LA Times: Now that Gary Ross is out (Praise the Lord!), Lionsgate is looking for a

College Essays pt. 1: College Athletics

Though I feel I have been away for so long, I really have not been. I am returning with a vengance however, unleashing upon the world (lol) my first college essay. As I am a civil engineering major, I have only had to take two semesters of english yet I have always enjoyed writing. Luckily

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