This week, Epic Meal Time covers my favourite type of food: Mexican food. With their classic EMT touch, they make tacos, a quesadilla and a giant burrito known as El Gigante. Naturally, there’s pounds upon pounds of bacon, beef, chicken and steak and topped off with lots of Patron tequila. Continue reading
Author: Steve Murray
Great Moments In Video Game Romance
Every once in a while, a video game transcends the typical shoot and kill stereotype that some games fall into and has an actual plot behind the action. One of the hardest to pull off is the convincing love story that seems almost cliché when Hollywood pumps out their dime a dozen romances. However, a good video game romance is hard to write and even harder to make work in the context of a game. So here’s my list of the best video game romances of all time. Continue reading
NHL Power Rankings: Week 19
Another week, another dose of the NHL analysis and assorted randominity known as the NHL Power Rankings. Once again, there’s a new team atop the rankings but it’s a familiar face that we should be used to see on top of the Power Rankings. Not surprisingly, the Senators, who haven’t won a game in their last ten, are on bottom. Continue reading
Wednesday Link-Off: Big Game Hangover
We’re less than a week from the launch of the SI Swimsuit Issue so here’s one of the girls on our shortlist, Genevieve Morton.
The gang at Baseball Prospectus have come up with the most important baseball movie article ever. They’ve figured out which baseball game Ferris Bueller went to. (Baseball Prospectus)
Ever want to be/meet Gus Johnson? Well, a new Big Ten Network contest has you covered. (Big Ten Network)
Odd personal fact: I’m a fan of British grime artist Lethal Bizzle. So when his song Pow (Forward) became one of the songs of the student protests over there, I had to link to the article. (Guardian)
After the jump, a Super Bowl photo diary, the hypothetical NBA Guardian Project, and the greatest sports pep talk ever. Continue reading
Top Ten Super Bowl 45 Ads
Let’s face it. The Super Bowl is not actually about football. It’s really just a big budget marketing exercise for companies with more money than sense. A thirty-second ad spot on Fox for Super Bowl 45 cost $3,000,000. With 111 million people watching the game in the US and millions more checking out the ads on YouTube, there’s no bigger day for marketing executives to earn their salaries.
So which companies put their best foot forward on the biggest day of the year? After the jump, I rank the best ads of Super Bowl Sunday. Continue reading
Inexplicable Celebrity Hookups
As Valentine’s Day nears, now is a good time to remember that playing out of your league is an inexplicably common occurrence. Despite how often that happens, when a guy lands an impossibly hot woman, I’d still call that a statistical outlier in the grand scheme of life. However, there are many examples of the supermodel or Maxim Hot 100 topper ended up with an ugly or otherwise ordinary guy. So here are some examples of odd celebrity couples and a reminder that it is possible to land a supermodel. It’s just extremely unlikely. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Pitbull – Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor)
If you were to ask me who is the worst new artist over the last two years, Pitbull would definitely make the short list. Since he properly burst onto the scene, Pitbull, formerly known as, Armando Perez, has graced us with such all-time classics as I Know You Want Me and Hotel Room Service. Well, he’s back again and he’s brought a friend along. Featuring T-Pain, it’s Pitbull’s new great song Hey Baby. Continue reading
Royal Rumble 2011 Review
Every year, the thirty man over-the-top-rope battle royal known as the Royal Rumble kicks off the Road to WrestleMania. This year, the WWE changed it up as 40 men did battle for a shot at the world title. But that wasn’t the only match on the card as three titles were on the line earlier in the night. Find out how well the biggest Rumble in history and the rest of the action played out after the jump. Continue reading
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: How TV Forces the End of Jury Trials
It’s not often I go into heavy stuff like this but reading an article about a brewing scandal in Formula One got me thinking about trials. The article made note of the fact that the law says that all people are considered innocent until proven guilty. But I think that the idea that people are always considered innocent until a judge or jury of their peers says otherwise has become antiquated and no longer holds true in modern society. I think that TV crime dramas and the 24/7 news media obsession with crime stories means that most people think that a person must be guilty if the police have charged them. I think that means we should soon see the end of jury trials in our innocent until proven guilty society. Continue reading
Super Bowl XLV Facts and Figures
It’s game day! We’re just a few hours away from Super Bowl 45 at the house that Jerry built, Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. To help you get set for the big game, here are some of the outlandish fact and numbers about the Super Bowl. Continue reading
The Lowdown 