
Rugged Movie Review – Shutter Island (2010)
About four years after the Academy finally gave him his lifetime achievement Oscar for the Departed (2006), director Martin Scorsese returns to feature filmmaking with Shutter Island, a story about the fragility of sanity.
The plot follows Teddy Daniels (Leonardo…

Six Dumb-Ass Arguments Against College Football Playoffs
The bowls are over. College football is gone for another year and so are the NFL playoffs. It’s funny we should mention playoffs. Like the delightfully annoying Jim Mora Coors Lite commercial, it seems to be a sore topic of…

Studs (and Duds) of Super Bowl XLIV
“The celebration may never end,” said an understandably elated Drew Brees on Sunday night after leading his New Orleans Saints to their first ever Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl XLIV. Hyperbole, for sure – just ask the Pittsburgh Steelers, last…

Fixing the Fight Game: Five Changes Boxing Should Have Made Yesterday
Boxing isn’t what it used to be. Bad fights, watered-down talent, and the rise of mixed martial arts have reduced it from contender to third-rate palooka in the sporting world. Oh sure, there has been the occasional diamond in the…