The A.V. Club - Sports

Sports: Great Job, Internet!: Taylor Lautner saves football in Field Of Dreams 2

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:10:00 -0500

Apparently, if Taylor Lautner builds a football field during the NFL lockout, a bunch of players and Rich Eisen will come. Funny Or Die assembled an all-star (literally, in sports terms) cast of characters for a new down-home video spoofing the NFL's current player-vs.-owner stand-off over a bunch of really complicated things. Ray Liotta plays Comissioner Roger Goodell and Dennis Haysbert does his very best James Earl Jones as, well, a guy who mystifies people a lot like James Earl Jones did in Field Of Dreams. Lautner plays a surprisingly funny farm owner, and Kevin Costner—who co-owns ...

Sports: Inventory: "why you say I shoulda went to school": 14 awful celebrity Twitter feeds

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600

1. 50 Cent (@50CENT) Sample tweet by the Twitter account @50CENT from August 2: “Thanks to my lovely ladies of the Today show @hodakotb @sarahaines @klgandhoda for having me!” Now one from August 27: “Bitch why you say I shoulda went to schoolI can buy a dam school you went to hoe fuck you Ya dog, funky bitch.” What happened? At some point in August, the rapper/actor seems to have reclaimed the strings from his Twitter puppetmasters. It hasn’t been an easy transition. The day before the aforementioned “funky bitch” tweet, 50 had his Twitpic account suspended for ...

Sports: Hater: Tiger Woods Is Now An Extra In Oz

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:00:00 -0600

Annie Leibovitz: Have you ever seen Oz? Great, so what we're going for here is grey, raw, prison-yard weight-lifting grittiness. So just put on this knit cap, take off your shirt, hold these dumbells, and look as if you're gonna shank someone right in the ear if they so much as glance at you. Yes. Like that! Perfect. Tiger Woods: There's no way this will ever come back to haunt me. Annie Leibovitz: Tres jolie, Tiger. Tres jolie. From Vanity Fair: Here is what Leibovitz herself had to say about it: “Tiger is an intensely competitive athlete ...