What do you do if you love basketball but don’t have the skills to make it as a pro — or, in at least one case, were a basketball player whose career ended, as all careers do? Well, if you’re rich enough, you can buy a team.
Movie actors used to look down on television. Often TV stars were hoping to make the move to films, and film stars acting on television was viewed as a de facto demotion.
This is a ranking of every series to be named the top drama at the Emmys since 1960, as drama awards were handed out prior to then but in separate categories like Best Western Series or Best Dramatic Series with Continuing Characters. With that settled, here are the rankings.
Most of us will never know what it’s like to be a professional athlete. Heck, some of us barely know what it’s like to be an amateur athlete. However, in the world of sports video games, we can get a taste of the elite athleticism at our fingertips.
Award shows, at least the televised ones, are about more than just handing out trophies. They are supposed to be entertaining, and they want to entice viewers and get them to stay tuned in.
Much as how the Oscars have Best Picture, the MTV Video Music Awards have their loftiest honor as well: Video of the Year. While music videos are not as popular a medium as it was when MTV was in its heyday, the rise of YouTube has given them new life in some ways.
Sometimes it feels like people like to complain about award show snubs more than they like to celebrate their favorites winning. Maybe we just feel better championing the underdog than reveling in the glory of victory, especially since, you know, we don’t actually win anything.
We’ve decided to highlight not just the best but also the worst season in every franchise’s history. Some of the choices were easier than others...
Here are the 32 majority owners in the NFL, ranked from the youngest to the oldest. Some teams have multiple majority owners. For those, we will go with the oldest majority owner.
Note that we said “memorable” not “best.” For all the nostalgia attached to it, a lot of the best “Saved by the Bell” moments are of the “so bad it’s good” variety.
There are the shows that surprise and delight us when they become hits. Some hits began life as midseason replacements. Others struggled with ratings for a couple of years before taking off.
The Teen Choice Awards are, well, an award show for teens. Once you’ve graduated from Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, but aren’t quite ready for, say, the Oscars or Grammys, there are the Teen Choice Awards.
Many shows over the years have featured characters who become famous for one thing they always said, and those phrases often entered the lexicon. Here are some of the most famous TV catchphrases from the airwaves over the years.
Lollapalooza began life as a touring concert act, the brainchild of Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell. It was peak Gen X and even got parodied on “The Simpsons.” Then the tour failed, and Lollapalooza sat dormant for years — that is, until it was reborn after the millennium, this time as a festival that stayed in Chicago.
Some things improve with age. Wine is the obvious example, but what about music? Indeed, some albums feel like they get better as years go by. Maybe they were ahead of their time, maybe they got overlooked or maybe they were always awesome but just sound even better the more you listen to them.
Sometimes an Emmy win comes with zero surprise. Eventually Julia Louis-Dreyfus winning for “Veep” became inevitable, for example, and then she won a couple of more on top of that.
If you have to go out, why not go out with a bang? We’re talking about the movies with the most memorable endings. Oh, and if it wasn’t obvious already, spoiler alert!
“Don’t quit your day job!” This is something skeptics say often, but some actors did not heed that advice. Many actors had success in other fields when their acting careers started to take off. Here are some of the actors who left other gigs by the wayside to keep us entertained.
Before the invention of the ESPYs, the idea of an award show honoring athletes seemed odd. Yet the ESPYs seem to work, as this year will be the 27th edition of the preeminent sports award show in the world.
There have been many memorable, iconic moments in women’s sports. Here is but a slice of the greatest moments and events in women’s sports history.
The two-time Oscar winner has portrayed so many iconic characters, and sometimes he’s even done memorable work in movies that maybe weren’t so great. Here is a ranking of the 25 most legendary Hanks roles over the years. Long may he reign.
Here are some of the longest-married couples out there in Hollywood these days. Fingers crossed that doesn’t change anytime soon.
Gary Busey has been a bit of a punchline for a while. If we set aside Busey the personality and focus on Busey the actor, there are some memorable roles worth talking about.
Maybe it’s the reason for the suspension or the length of the punishment. It could just be that we don't expect the athlete in question to run afoul of the sporting world. With that in mind, here are some of the most shocking suspensions from sports history.