Got a basketball jones? Watching hoops is the best way to get your fill of basketball, but there are fictional ways to enjoy your hoops as well. Many TV shows are about, to some degree, basketball.
Some great shooters never got a fair shake when it comes to shooting threes. Some players played in the NBA before the introduction of the three-point line, of course, but also the guys who played in an era when three-point shooting was a rarity.
Getting buckets is the name of the game. You win in basketball by scoring more points than the opposition. Defense is key (some say it wins championships), but you have to be able to score.
The fourth wall. It’s there to keep the audience separate from the action. What we are watching on a screen, be it a movie or a TV show, is purported to really be happening to these characters.
The best-laid plans of movie studios don’t always unfold as hoped for. Sometimes, a planned franchise works right out of the gates. Other times, franchises end up nixed before they can even take off (looking at you, “John Carter.”) Then, there are the times a franchise gets a reprieve and finds a second life.
What to base a movie on? Real events? A popular comic book? An esteemed work of literature? How about…a toy? It happens more than you might think. Or, in the modern film landscape, exactly as often as you think.
One of the most popular science fiction tropes in movies and TV, right up there with time travel and extraterrestrial life, is the idea of parallel universes or alternate universes.
Spiders. You often see them in your house. Maybe you are cool with that, so try to let them outside. Or maybe you freak out and plead with somebody, anybody, to handle it one way or another.
Sometimes, action TV shows are adapted into films. “The A-Team,” for example. On other occasions, though, movies are adapted into TV shows instead. Hey, action movies often have premises that can easily be turned into a series of episodic adventures.
Music has long played a massive role in movies. Biopics have also been popular since the beginning of film. Thus, biopics about musicians are fairly commonplace.
Goalscorers in football get plenty of love. What about the guys who dish out the assists? Here is the leader in assists for every Premier League season since the 2002-03 campaign.
Who has found the net the most in the UEFA Champions League? These are the top goalscorers in every Champions League tourney since 1999-00.
Genetics are pretty important when it comes to being a professional athlete. It takes work, drive, and commitment, of course, but if you’re going to play in the NBA it also helps to be, you know, 6’8’’ with crazy hops. Here's a list of 25 of the most prominent father-son duos (and sometimes beyond, with multiple sons playing in the league).
Some NHL captains have been in the role for over a decade, while others have just grabbed it.
Most characters in movies and TV are imagined. That is to say, somebody crafted them, they are fictional. However, on top of that, some characters from the realm of pop culture are imaginary.
It seems the NHL is in a good place. Ratings are up, talent levels are high, and the league added two teams to get up to 32 in the not-too-distant past.
While the NBA is super popular worldwide, and basketball is the second-biggest sport in the world behind soccer, the NBA has fallen behind the curve in one way.
The NFL is, obviously, doing well. NFL games win the ratings battle repeatedly, with the Super Bowl consistently one of the rare times when hundreds of millions of people tune in to the same TV programming live.
We are approaching a remarkable TV milestone. In 2025, “Saturday Night Live” will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Obviously, we’re early in the decade, but we can still take a look at the best “SNL” cast members of the 2020s.
Not everybody is a fit for “Saturday Night Live,” even when they are talented performers. Of course, some take to “SNL” with gusto. Those are the kind of performers who make this list, the best “SNL” cast members of the 2010s.
Not every new cast member in the 2000s really popped, but many did. These are the best “SNL” cast members of the first decade of the new millennium.
Some exciting new blood debuted for 'SNL' in the 1990s to join with the stars the show found in the back half of the '80s. The old guard and the newcomers join forces to create this list of the best “Saturday Night Live” cast members of the ‘90s.
The ‘80s were a tumultuous decade for “SNL.” However, some quality cast members still emerged. These are the best “SNL” cast members of the 1980s.
In 1975, “Saturday Night Live” debuted. The core original cast is now iconic. However, did you know the “Not Ready for Primetime Players” included more people than you may think? There were 15 people credited as cast members on “SNL” during the 1970s. These are those cast members.
These athletes are all greats of their respective games, but none of them has a professional championship in their sport.