Bonus 2013 Penguin Award: Athlete of the Year
First off welcome to the Penguin Awards. This is Rookerville’s attempt to wrap up the year. The one guarantee about awards shows and end of the year lists is that, inevitably, no one can ever agree on them. Rather than attempting to assign a numerical rank to something so subjective in nature, our approach to quantifying what took place during the previous calendar year is more broad – our own preferences in each...
NFC Divisional Playoffs Weekend Preview
Man I love playoff football. I wish I could be watching the Cowboys, but we can’t all be winners. This weekend, much like the last is filled with great matchups, but it will have a tough time living up to the excitement last weekend. I got both my games wrong last weekend, but I did call the Chargers. Too bad I’m not writing the AFC column. Let’s get to the games. New Orleans Saints vs. Seattle Seahawks...
Once Upon A Time Season 3: Episodes 9-11 (Winter Finale)
At the end of Episode 8, Peter Pan trapped Rumpelstiltskin (Rumpel) in Pandora’s box. Despite pleas from the heroes, Pan also manipulated Henry into giving his heart to him. I really enjoy how the first half of the third season and the Pan story arc end in the last three episodes. Similar to the rest of the series, I like how the episodes tie flashbacks of the characters’ pasts to themes and events in the current storylines. In...
Y Tu Dios Tambien
Film is a visual medium. This sounds like more or less the most obvious statement ever, and yet, embarrassingly, I have to consistently remind myself of it when I watch movies. As a fiction writer, I usually pay much closer attention to the characters, the dialogue, the narrative. The problem for me with visual style is that the kind of visual style I like best is invisible. Just as the secret to wearing makeup is to make it look like...
AFC Divisional Playoffs Weekend Preview
(4) Indianapolis Colts (11-5) @ (2)New England Patriots (12-4) (4) Indianapolis Colts (11-5) Wild Card Round Down 38-10 at the beginning of the third quarter, the Colts looked dead. However, budding superstar QB Andrew Luck played great in the second half and led his Colts to the second greatest playoff comeback in NFL history against the Kansas City Chiefs. It was the most exciting game of the Wild Card weekend. The win is a...
NBA Notes: 2nd Month (Eastern Conference)
Overview Not much has changed in the East in the second month. It will be a two team race between the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat for the first seed and homecourt advantage in the playoffs. The East will not get dramatic until these two teams meet in the Eastern Conference Finals. Most of the Conference is mired in mediocrity. The Atlanta Hawks are 18-14 and Toronto Raptors are 15-15 as the third and fourth teams in the Conference....