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Sports x Pop Culture: Oscars on 25/2/13 | Tipped by Quickish |
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The Jets have signed Seth McFarlane. Wall Street Journal's Jason Gay(via Twitter)
Sports x Oscars: Last Word on 26/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Moneyball is the Moneyball of films. ESPN.com's Chris Sprow(via Twitter) , after "The Artist" took home Best Picture.
Sports x Oscars: He's Not Wrong on 26/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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The best part of the Oscars is watching the NBA All-Star Game during commercials. SBNation's Matt Ufford(via Twitter)

MORE: "Christopher Plummer's acceptance speech was as smooth as his velvet jacket." (SI's Jim Trotter)
Sports x Oscars: "Undefeated" Wins Best Documentary on 26/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Oh. I guess sports wins. Daily Show's John Hodgman(via Twitter)
Sports x Oscars, Cont'd on 26/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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*Clips of classic films have outnumbered clips from this year's nominated films by 1,000-to-1. (ESPN's Don Van Natta)

*I solved everything...next year we have the dunk contest DURING the Oscars. (NBC Sports Network's Ron Wechsler) (via Twitter)
Sports x Oscars: Billy Crystal's Monologue on 26/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Monologue has a vague Favre's-last-season-in-Minnesota feel. Wall Street Journal's Jason Gay(via Twitter)

MORE: "Oscar producers apparently thought recent award shows were centering too much on the under-60 crowd." (SI.com's Stewart Mandel)
Sports x Oscars: Settle In on 26/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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*I have $200 that the Oscars open with a safety (50-1 odds!)
(Reuters' and SBNation's Anthony De Rosa)

*Don't like to make Oscar predictions, so I'll just go with who's got all the momentum -- Robert Griffin III. (SBNation's Dan Rubenstein)

*Prop I'd like to see: who will set more screens tonight-publicists for their stars on Oscar red carpet or players in nba all star game. (ESPN the Mag's Chad Millman)

*Friends, when you make a "Kazaam" joke tonight, please specify if it's an NBA All-Star Game or Oscars joke. (Wall Street Journal's Jason Gay)

*Just filled out my annual Oscar ballot. Based on advanced statistics, I didn't pick Moneyball. (SI's Joe Posnanski) (via Twitter)
Sports x Pop Culture: "Moneyball" at the Oscars on 24/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Can "Moneyball" further resemble its plucky Oakland A's and make history as the first baseball movie ever to win Best Picture -- all while taking down "The Artist" and leapfrogging assumed closest challengers "The Descendants," "Hugo" and "The Help"? "The short answer," wrote Sasha Stone, founder and editor of the long-running Oscars blog Awards Daily, "is no." Patrick Dorsey(via ESPN.com) , who catalogs the up-and-down history of sports movies at the Oscars.
Sports x Pop Culture: "Moneyball" Racks Up Oscar Noms on 24/1/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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For now and forever, it's "Academy Award nominee Jonah Hill" to you. New York Times' Dave Itzkoff(via Twitter) , about Hill, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Moneyball," which made the cut for "Best Picture." Brad Pitt -- as A's GM Billy Beane -- was nominated for Best Actor.
One Last "Oscars x Sports" Entry on 28/2/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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The Kwame Brown of Oscar broadcasts? Overnight ratings down 7 percent. SI's Richard Deitsch(via Twitter)

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