God and Greg Oden: An Almost Live Special Report

God and Greg Oden: An Almost Live Special Report
Because Hank Stern already covered tonight’s bummer Greg Oden news in a previous post, and because this writer—who has covered the Blazers for WW since the Sebastian Telfair era—has been through a few Greg Oden Injury press conferences, what follows is a free-form, 3,500-word meditation on this evening’s happenings. It will not yield Rotoworld-friendly injury […]
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REVIEW: ‘Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer’
Alex Gibney’s “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” is on firm and infuriating ground when it puts forward the idea that the one guy who was doing something about Wall Street BEFORE the Great Recession was Eliot Spitzer. The one-time New York attorney general took his label “The People’s Attorney” seriously. He hassled the game-the-system / take-staggering-foolish-risks / overcompensate …
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Movies Excellent (****) Reviewed by critics Carrie Rickey (C.R.) and Steven Rea (S.R.). W.S. denotes a wire-service review. The Social Network An enthralling, near-perfect comedy of manners from director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin about the exhilarating creation and contested consolidation of Facebook. With Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberla
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