by Matt Zemek | May 25, 2015
The 2015 NBA Playoffs have been a bust. That short, blunt, inelegant sentence matches the cadence of these playoffs as well as the level of quality they’ve (not) attained. The Cleveland Cavaliers will notch a successful season when they officially seal their...
by Matt Zemek | May 23, 2015
You can make all the Eastern Conference and David Blatt jokes you want, but if you stop laughing for a second, you can appreciate just how much LeBron James has grown as a leader. This growth — as a person and as a player — is responsible for bringing the...
by Matt Zemek | May 23, 2015
As Dan Aykroyd’s Bob Dole character said on Saturday Night Live decades ago, “You know it, I know it, and the American people know it.” The Cleveland Cavaliers are going to sweep the Atlanta Hawks out of the Eastern Conference finals, barring a piano...
by Matt Zemek | May 22, 2015
It is easy to be merciless toward millionaire athletes and coaches who preside over a train wreck in a decisive moment of a late-stage playoff game. “THESE GUYS GET PAID SO MUCH! THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HIGHLY-TRAINED! THEY’VE SPENT THEIR LIVES DREAMING...
by Matt Zemek | May 20, 2015
What follows is less a television critique than a personal expression of what Mad Men has meant to me and others. It’s partly an appreciation of this show, whose first-run existence is now over, but it’s more an attempt to explain why this show can...
