S.K.o.S.

So the recording wasn't illegal after all, and it sounds like Stiviano wanted to take down Sterling for being a racist while still staying in his good graces as much as possible to keep receiving exorbitant gifts, but was not terribly smart about it.

Sure, as long as you don't touch the lists.

Amazing Spider-Man 2 is now off the table for list inclusion. I'll let Paco's entry slide.

If it helps, there's gonna be this movie called Tammy coming out too.

If you've seen the documentary Head Games, there's this part where Nowitski is doing a talk on concussions and completely eviscerates this high school coach who is trying to say they're not a big deal. Something like "I don't want to say what I'm actually thinking, because I'm concerned that you might lose your job." Wrestlers finding success outside of wrestling just makes me so happy for some reason. I felt the same way when Brock won his UFC title, actually.

Even a 5-game Miami-Toronto series would be a moral victory since Miami has never lost to Toronto since Lebron joined the team.

They'd all get stomped by Transformers anyway... probably.

Honest reason is that I looked up the info on it one time, and from then on I got it into my head that it starred Rebel Wilson and therefore never gave it serious consideration.

"Household debt skyrockets as box office records fall"

Mike, you only need 15 movies on each list. You can pull out the 5 that you feel least confident about from each.

Okay, just so no one can nitpick later - I'm taking this as $188 million. $188,000,000 million is $188 trillion.

That's pretty glaringly inconsistent, unless there was absolutely zero credible evidence in those two lawsuits.

Yep. Magic Johnson and the Guggenheim Group have already said they wanna buy it. Ha, if Magic Johnson ends up as the new owner, the conspiracy theorists are gonna have a field day. edit: If Alfredo's right, then never mind.

So is "the league will attempt to force a sale of the Clippers" just a blustery way of saying "the league will ask Sterling to sell the Clippers" or can they actually force him to sell? Would it be based on that three-quarters owners vote that was mentioned before?

DreamBroken was entrant #18. Add GIMME THE LOOT to the prizes.

Lots of people didn't know he was a racist until this past weekend. I know I didn't.

Also, a "league insider" in Kuetsar's ESPN link says: The reason that so many people know he's a racist is that his private conversation was illegally taped, but the court of public opinion doesn't care as much about that part. I think he's got to be able to have some legal recourse against whoever taped the conversation or whoever released it - assuming it can be proven who those people are - but it doesn't sound like that's going to get him out of whatever the NBA decides the punishment should be.

I'm wondering how much more difficult it becomes for the NBA to do anything if Sterling just says that's not him on the recording.

The esteemed Dr. Bathroom, who graduated top of his class in lavatory medical school, is entrant #15. A copy of OMAR is added to the prizes.

There's only 14 movies in that Rotten Tomatoes list.

Death From Above is entrant #12, so we add THE CRASH REEL to the available prizes.

I'm going. Ted Reeve is a hockey arena, so you have the seats behind the hockey glass which are general admission, and then they set up the ring and folding chairs on the rink surface (sans ice, obviously). I would assume that "corner seats" means you're gonna be facing a ringpost.

Last year when I unofficially finished second, I was taking past movies that seemed similar to the current crop and basing it on how those did. I also had a general rule that August movies do poorly (but this year it seems like most of what I'd want to see is in August).

Rippa, for the tiebreaker, I need a movie to go with the $55 million.

Need a tiebreaker. You've also got Godzilla on your box office list twice, at 7 and 12.