John Gonzalez
Staff Writer
Gonzalez covers the NBA and is host of ‘The Ringer NBA Show: Heat Check’ pod. He has been a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and a TV host and analyst for NBCSportsPhilly.
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A Ranking of the 54 Best Characters From the ‘Fast & Furious’ Franchise
The ‘Fast’ family has swelled in numbers over the past 20 years, but there’s still a clear hierarchy within it
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The House Always Wins … Unless
Twenty years ago, ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ seduced audiences with the perfect heist: the robbing of several Las Vegas casinos. How accurate was the movie’s depiction of casino security? And how has the safeguarding of Sin City changed over the past two decades?
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Fisher Stevens on Wrangling a Beast—and Season 2 of ‘Tiger King’
Fun fact: The actor who plays Waystar’s crisis manager Hugo Baker on ‘Succession’ is also partially responsible for one of the biggest hits of the pandemic
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Ben Simmons Is Thrown Out of Practice, Throwing Sixers Into Chaos
The wantaway point guard’s return has gone just about as bad as it possibly could have
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Matthew Macfadyen Keeps Chewing His Way Through ‘Succession’
The British actor behind Tom Wambsgans previews Season 3, breaks down some of his favorite scenes, and explains what it was like devouring chicken in front of Brian Cox
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Ask a PR Expert: How Would You Handle the Many Crises of ‘Succession’?
A cruise line scandal, congressional hearings, and a son publicly stabbing his father in the back—the Roys’ mess is enough to make longtime public relations professionals shudder
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Kenny Mayne’s Second Act
The former ‘SportsCenter’ anchor talks Bristol, Trump, and a professional life joking about highlights
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Ben Simmons Never Pandered to Philly, and Maybe That Was His Biggest Sin
Another Philly star—like Carson Wentz before him— seems destined to leave this most complicated of sports towns
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Clarissa Is Here to Explain It All
In conversation, Melissa Joan Hart looks back on the beloved SNICK sitcom, what it was like to be the first female lead on Nickelodeon, and how she feels about rebooting ‘Sabrina: The Teenage Witch’
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Ben Simmons, the Pass, and the End of the Process
Ben Simmons’s time in Philadelphia likely concluded with one feeble dump-off pass at the end of the biggest game of his life. The dunk not taken will likely mark an end point to one of the more hotly debated, misunderstood, and maligned team-building exercises in NBA history. So … did it work?