The DFO March College Basketball Tournament Preview

SonOfSpam - March 20, 2024March 20, 2024

It's that time of year again; the clocks have sprung forward, the potato-eating countries have been celebrated, and random baseball teams are heading to Southeast Asia to play our national pastime. Yep, it's definitely time for some Madness no, not the 40+ year old ska band (but hey, they just put

Your Saturday Evening, One Week Until Hall Of Fame Inductions Open Thread

Beerguyrob - July 27, 2019July 27, 2019

The Gatekeeper of Canton Welcome, my pretties, to the last weekend before the glorious return of NFL football*. It is a time of wonder & joy for all 32 teams, for each has visions of sugarplums playoffs dancing in their heads. Soon there will be four weeks** of pre-season games, wherein

Oscars 2019 Preview and Open Thread: We Got to Move These Acclaimed Motion Pictures. We Got to Move These Short Nominees.

makeitsnowondem - February 24, 2019February 24, 2019

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Welcome to Oscars Evening, Commentists! I'm back, and I've got some more capital-T Takes on these awards, specifically the prestige categories, the short films, and the feature films that well-adjusted people probably care even less about than they do the short films. But first, I want to yell about something

Oscars 2019 Preview: I Have Eaten The Polar Bears That Were In Your Ice Cap

makeitsnowondem - February 23, 2019February 23, 2019

Happy Oscar weekend! In past years, I know, I've spread this out a little more, but there were a few key films I had to go down to the wire to find time to watch. It's honestly still looking questionable whether I'll see everything on the list this year, thanks

Oscars 2019: Tell Homeland Security – We Are The Noms

makeitsnowondem - January 25, 2019January 26, 2019

Welcome to late January! It's a time we at DFO most associate with bitching that the goddamned Patriots are in the stupid fucking Super Bowl again, but that's not all these bleak winter weeks have to offer. There are also movie awards! Balls of Steel is already ably handling the

‘A Christmas Prince’ for Best Picture: Oscar Nomination Predictions and Discussion Thread

makeitsnowondem - January 23, 2018January 23, 2018

Good morning! Condolences to any of you who are actually awake when this goes live. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for its ridiculous, interminable award show in a few hours, and as a man who's seen, like, forty or so of 2017's new

DFO “Insiders” Predict the Championship Round!

yeah right - January 19, 2018January 18, 2018

Championship weekend is here! Before getting started let's address the obvious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWe1KY8HOCg Trust me I watched every replay and this was definitely the best angle. Turn the volume up for this one. Having been to US Bank Stadium I can testify that it is loud during a regular season game I can't imagine

DFO Insiders Predict! The Divisional Round

yeah right - January 12, 2018January 11, 2018

Well that was certainly a wild card round wasn't it? Last week when we posted the wild card round predictions I mentioned how those "expert insiders" at the 4 letter network had all gone chalk on their wild card predictions. Well guess what motherfuckers? ALL of you were wrong. Every goddamn

DFO “Insiders” Predict the NFL Wild Card Round. With Bonus Analysis!

yeah right - January 5, 2018January 5, 2018

Banner photo courtesy: After an unprecedentedly strange, bizarre? unusual? After a really weird fucking NFL regular season we have finally made it to here. The start of the NFL postseason! Congratulations are in order to 11 of the 12 playoff entrants - fuck the 12th - and condolences are in order

Straight White Super Bowl 2016: Oscars Recap

makeitsnowondem - March 5, 2016March 5, 2016

The Oscars were last weekend. Let's see how my predictions did. Best Picture, Best Director, Acting Awards (5/6) I missed only one of the big six awards, with Best Director going to Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant instead of George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road. The lead acting categories went, as expected, to Leonardo DiCaprio and

2015 NFL Season Review and Power Rankings

New School Zero - September 10, 2015August 31, 2015

Oh, you poor bastards. Today we careen over the precipice and into an existence devoid of mercy and gentleness, a series of darkening days and nights without dawn. The barrel of the 2015 National Football League season now rests against the back of your head, the danger of it having