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A little Knives Out reunion is now in the works with No Time To Die’s Ana de Armas joining Apple’s Ghosted opposite Chris Evans after Scarlett Johansson had to exit the project due to scheduling conflicts. Instead of being at odds with one another like their characters in Knives Out, de Armas and Evans will now play…
AlecbuggTime to cancel
Source?
Him:
It's wild to think back to those early days at The Athletic. I think there were 4 cities launched when I signed on. No national staff. No name recognition. Having a role in building out and launching @TheAthleticPHI will always be an experience I think back on and cherish.
— Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) December 3, 2021
Special thanks to the editors who had to deal with me, especially @petesweigard, @ShotDrJr and @thatgonzalez. I'm sorry for….well, everything lol. But I appreciate that y'all were there to turn tell me when I was crazy and to make me better.
— Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) December 3, 2021
Derek notes that Rich Hofmann is continuing with The Athletic, so the formerly three-man Sixers crew is down to one. It was originally Derek and Rich as full-time writers with Mike O’Connor contributing on a part-time basis. Mike moved over to RTRS in 2020 and writes articles on the podcast’s website.
Obviously there’s been a lot of recent news about The Athletic, which is exploring a sale. The site began in 2016 with a subscription-only model, and raised millions and millions of dollars through various rounds of fundraising. They expanded vigorously, so much so that you wondered who wasn’t joining The Athletic back in the day. But in recent years the whole thing has levelled off a bit, and in a recent Bloomberg article, Gerry Smith and Lucas Shaw write the following:
The San Francisco-based company, which is unprofitable and under growing pressure from investors to deliver a return, is currently exploring a sale, seeking a price of $600 million to $800 million, according to two people familiar with the matter. The New York Times did not reach a deal with the startup recently after crunching the numbers and assessing the value of The Athletic at less than $500 million, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations. Another reported suitor, the sports-betting company FanDuel, has also said it isn’t interested. (Disclosure: Bloomberg News previously had a subscription partnership with The Athletic, which is no longer active).
To date, The Athletic has raised nearly $140 million from a range of investors, including Comcast Ventures, Waverley Capital and Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective. In October, The Information reported that The Athletic has enough cash to cover its needs for about the next eight months.
So they have to figure something out on the business side at The Athletic.
But anyway, Derek is a fantastic basketball mind, and I’m not just saying that because I sat next to him at the games. There’s a reason he got the “Godner” nickname, and he’ll have his pick of media outlets to work with, assuming he wants to continue in sports journalism. He was actually an information technology/computer guy before getting into writing. He had a gig at Philly Mag, and then Philly Mag got rid of all of their sports coverage for whatever dumb reason. So Derek went independent for a bit and then turned that into this most recent gig.
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AlecbuggI love this. Get him JJ!
Former Sixer JJ Redick recently retired from the NBA to pursue a broadcasting career. He’s been pretty good on ESPN so far. Refreshingly honest and educated. It’s almost as if he played 15 years in the league!
Here he is calling bullshit on Stephen A Smith (the second video clip is what we’re focused on, but watch the first one to add some context) –
JJ Reddick just told @stephenasmith, "I dont know if you actually believe what you are saying!" Then SAS tried to say, when you watch the game.. JJ said, No, I played the game, Im telling you that you are wrong"
They gonna get rid of him like Max Kellerman. #FirstTake pic.twitter.com/0wydLfKPVQ
— HGIC (@HGIC_) November 23, 2021
lol
Redick sealed his fate. Stephen A is gonna get him kicked off the show, same way Max Kellerman got the boot.
Nice run for JJ on First Take, though. He’s just telling the truth. And Stephen A can’t handle the truth! He ordered the code red!
“You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall — you need me on that wall.”
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Alecbugg!!! Amazon get out of my head
Well well, it looks like someone within Amazon Prime HQ has figured out the key to Jeff Bezos’ heart: space operas and adaptations. We know the pointlessly rich space-dork loved The Expanse so much that he personally fought to save it from cancellation, and we know that he wanted a Game Of Thrones so bad that he’s…
AlecbuggBig Head's back!
Are we having fun yet? Well, we’re about to, because Starz officially gave the green-light to bring back Party Down! Rob Thomas’ decision to work on a Party Down revival was initially announced back in March of this year, and now Starz announced that the beloved series returns with six episodes.
AlecbuggThey're calling it The Ben Simmons Mode
In all other sports games, I’m a team player, but in NBA 2K22, it’s OK to look out for No. 1
AlecbuggLook out! It's a Gom Jabbar!
When Denis Villeneuve’s Dune arrives in theaters and on streaming services October 22, it will do so while laboring under a number of shadows. There are the past adaptations of Frank Herbert’s landmark sci-fi novel, obviously—both David Lynch’s flawed but fascinating effort in 1984, and the unrealized (and thus…
AlecbuggThis looks pretty boss
The Beatles fans rejoice. The trailer for Peter Jackson’s docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, offers a first look at hours of never-before-seen footage of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr as they prepare for what would be their final live performance in 1969. After being locked in a vault…
AlecbuggI have this game in the bottom of a box somewhere, never got to play it, but Rothfuss makes it look pretty pretty cool
Patrick Rothfuss joins us for some collaborative storytelling
AlecbuggYou really only need to watch the first 3 minutes. I had no idea Newman was actually the guy in JFK!
It’s pretty easy for pop culture parodies to fall flat when thrown into movie and TV comedies, usually because they’re little more than pandering attempts to recreate familiar scenes and quotes with no point other than to spark a sense of recognition in audiences. Seinfeld’s references to film, though, were often…
AlecbuggArmagggedon!
Perhaps Adam McKay saw the Knives Out 2 casting announcements and said “hold my beer” because his casting for his Netflix film Don’t Look Up is pretty incredible: Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet, Jonah Hill, Chris Evans, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi),…
AlecbuggHmmm
The band’s re-issued albums are getting a digital exhibition
AlecbuggYes, absolutely yes
The trailer for Ridley Scott’s forthcoming historical epic features a lot of clanking armor, accusations, and not to mention a good ol’ yell from Adam Driver. Over the course of 2 minutes, with grand imagery bolstered by a strong cast, a crime committed against a woman becomes the framework for a conflict between two…
AlecbuggI know we're at Peak Star Wars, but this does look fuckin cool
You’d be forgiven for forgetting about Star Wars: Visions; it was one of a huge slate of Star Wars-based shows that Disney announced at its Investor Day event last December, alongside far flashier projects like Ahsoka and Andor. As with most of those shows, fans of the franchise got little more than a logline for the…
AlecbuggJust bought this, can't wait to read it, not reading this article
Few people in Hollywood have more affection for a throwback gesture than Quentin Tarantino. Old-school film formats, retro title cards, actual printed programs—Tarantino has filled his films, and the spaces around them, with his love of the ephemera and detritus of classic cinema. But no gesture has ever matched the…
AlecbuggWhat a hot take
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
AlecbuggStallone, apparently, never cared much, saying in 1992 that he’d be happy to have a meal in pill form because “I’m just not prone to chew a lot” and because “It doesn’t go with my personality.”. Wild.
Back in the ‘90s, there was no thrill more potent than swinging the doors of a Planet Hollywood wide open, knowing that you were in for an overpriced burger eaten below movie artifacts like prop jackets or a big, almost-nude Sylvester Stallone mannequin. The excitement the chain generated at the time was so high that…
AlecbuggStrike while the iron's hot I suppose
Wawa is a way of life in Pennsylvania. With its fluorescent lights shining from the ceiling onto aisles of pretzel twists, Utz potato chips, and peanut chews, like beams from the heavens, the convenience store chain is nothing more than God’s country to Pennsylvanians. So who better than Wawa to bestow its…
AlecbuggThis movie is gonna be wicked
We all love it when Steven Soderbergh does a heist movie. It’s a verifiable fact that it’s one of everyone’s favorite things. Ask any person on the street what their favorite thing is and say “no another thing” a bunch of times; eventually, they’ll say “Steven Soderbergh heist movie.” They’d be right, too, because no…
Alecbugg!!!
We’ve been deprived of new episodes of I Think You Should Leave for two years. A lot has changed since then! Shit receipt stainer Steven Yeun is an Oscar nominee. The hot dog costume guy has become a political meme that’s been severely overused on Twitter. Paul still has no good car ideas, though. But we’ll soon get a…
AlecbuggVery clever idea
Even when they weren’t facing the mortal perils inherent to trekking across a vast, mysterious landscape filled with fantastical creatures, rival armies, and roving bands of flesh-eating goblins, The Lord Of The Rings’ Fellowship still had to endure the need to make small talk during the many, many hours of downtime…
AlecbuggI have no idea what this is about, even after watching the trailer, but one shot of Matt Smith lighting up a cigarette...hell yeah, i'm in
Anya Taylor-Joy is a mysterious singer in a version of the past that isn’t quite right
AlecbuggFun!
Death Cab for Cutie will release Live at the Showbox on May 7th.
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AlecbuggPS5 exclusive!? WTF
Alecbugg“chaotic reentry” towards Earth
China managed two impressive feats last week: First, they successfully launched the first module of the nation’s new, badass-named Tiangong (“Celestial Palace”) space station aboard its Long March 5B rocket, marking a major milestone in human spacefaring for the country. Second, they accidentally sent a 30-meter-tall…
AlecbuggHooray Tik Tok!
Aliya Chaudhry, writing at Consequence:
But there’s another major factor bringing pop-punk back, and it’s causing a lot of change in the music industry. TikTok has been revitalizing hits from the 2000s and 2010s – many of them scene staples like 3OH!3’s “DONTTRUSTME”, Paramore’s “All I Wanted”, and All Time Low’s “Dear Maria, Count Me In”. It’s also bolstered newer songs, like “I Miss Having Sex but at Least I Don’t Want to Die Anymore” by pop-punk-adjacent band Waterparks, who didn’t even release the track as a single (and have subsequently signed to hip-hop label 300 Entertainment). YUNGBLUD, whose work combines elements of pop and punk with other genres, frequently collaborates with Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker, and his song “parents” went viral on TikTok earlier this year.
Next level: When TikTok can get all those pop-punk bands that should have been huge back in the day a viral hit. Come on, let’s see some Lucky Boys Confusion dance move videos.
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AlecbuggWith even more prince!
There are few things better than Prince’s guitar solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” from the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Sure, parents will say, but “what of my baby’s head? Have you smelled it?” Has your baby ever finished one of the greatest solos ever by magically making a guitar vanish…
AlecbuggJared, did you write this headline or steal this joke. It's one of the two.
We expect him to have particularly high charisma
AlecbuggLoveeee the battlefield games
PS Plus subscribers get 3 games across PS4, PS5 next month
AlecbuggHappy Happy Happy Day
Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley’s Invincible was kind of a big swing, seeing as how it’s an adult-oriented adaptation of a well-loved comic book, done in the style of the sort of ‘90s superhero cartoons that nobody makes anymore and with a big-name cast, which pretty…
