Bryan Graham

Never forget that Rocky III was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Japanese Academy Awards.

The #BETAwards tonight was the #SinnerAlcaraz of awards shows. Heroically long (4h45m!) and historically good. Jesse Collins is very good at this.

With the BET Awards happening in downtown LA, I was wondering who was going to say something first. Doechii really is that girl.

Coco quotes Tyler in her French Open victory speech. Tyler name-checked Coco in Thought I Was Dead off Chromakopia.

Michael Blake is the only candidate in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary who was for shitcanning Thibs.

Norway Chess 2025 | Open • Round 6 6-player double round-robin | 120 min + 10 sec / move starting 41 | standard | Stavanger, Norway | Carlsen, Gukesh, Caruana, Nakamura

Yes, here's the game: lichess.org/broadcast/no...

Magnus Carlsen punches the table in frustration after losing to world champion Gukesh Dommaraju for the first time in a classical game at #NorwayChess today.

The Knicks' win probability with a 14-point lead and under three minutes left in regulation was 99.7%.

Nobody ever did it better.

‘This was for her’: how boxing brought a mother and son back from the brink Reese and Desiree Mistretta are the first mother-son duo to win New York’s prestigious Golden Gloves, but their deeper bond is how boxing helped them survive life’s hardest hits

Reese and Desiree Mistretta just became the first mother-son duo to win New York Golden Gloves titles, but their remarkable story goes far beyond boxing. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

VPOTUS with Ohio State’s 16th fumble of the season.

Everyone is so hung up by Carrie Coon's college track career to realize that she went to the same school for the same four years as Nick Sirianni.

Alysa Liu left figure skating behind. She came back better than ever | Bryan Armen Graham After two years away, the American skater found her way back to the ice – and became the world champion no one saw coming

Wrote about Alysa Liu, one of the greater comeback yarns I've seen. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

Insane photo finish in the world indoor women's 60m hurdles final today in Nanjing. Sixth-place finisher was four hundredths of a second off the winning time.

YouTube video by Batman Boxing George Foreman vs Joe Frazier | Fight Of The Year 1973

Unreal performance. RIP Big George. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q70j...

YouTube video by IOC Media 144th IOC Session - Day 2

IOC presidential election happening now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-u-...

Four Oscars in one night: Walt Disney (1953), Bong Joon-ho (2019), Sean Baker (2024)

One year to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics: Twenty athletes from Team USA to watch With the Winter Olympics set to begin one year from today, here’s a look at 20 Americans worth keeping an eye on The longtime ice dance partners, together on skates from 2011 and married since last year, finally broke through for their first world…

One year to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics: Twenty athletes from Team USA to watch

Caller phones into C-Span's inauguration coverage to complain about the CFP selection committee leaving Alabama out of the playoff.

The Free Library of Philadelphia put one copy of Inner Excellence into circulation on Libby about two hours ago and there's already 97 people waiting for it.

Art imitates life 🐾

Near midnight, Ohio Gov. DeWine signs bill into law to charge public for police video Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a controversial bill into law that could charge the public hundreds of dollars for footage from law enforcement agencies, including body cameras.

Nasty work. www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

Phish review – spiraling jams and communal bliss at Madison Square Garden Unsinkable Vermont four-piece ring in the new year with a dazzling mix of improvisation, spectacle and fan devotion

First byline of 2025. Love and light to everyone! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Here's the official scorecard for tonight's #UsykFury2 fight.

Same energy

Ding Liren loses his world title on a horrific blunder (55 Rf2??) as 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju becomes the youngest world champion in history.

Who wants to go halfsies? www.ebay.com/itm/11527256...

There goes that man.

Asked to name their favorite athletes outside of chess at today's presser, Gukesh said Novak Djokovic and Ding said ... Lamar Odom and Federico Chiesa 🫠

Asia's first grandmaster Eugenio Torre talks about playing chess with Manny Pacquiao during today's #DingGukesh broadcast.