3 Point Buzzer

Walk into Bob Thompson’s spacious and beautifully lit office on the fourth floor of Newhouse 3 and it’s immediately obvious that the man is a television maven. Three flat screen TVs are perfectly plastered on the right wall. Then there are the hundreds, yes hundreds, of books on television, and lastly, “Simpsons”, “CSI” and “Friends” themed trivia games. But Thompson isn’t just a professor, he is a pioneer, one who willed the study of pop culture as an art form to almost every college in America, and by doing so has become one of the most respected voices in the industry. Thompson and his associates estimate he has been interviewed more than 35,000 times, with a single-day record of 86 interviews. In fact, some news outlets have even ordered their reporters to stop interviewing Thompson since everybody else does. Thompson’s path to becoming such a renowned pop culture voice was a road that had very little precedent. In the early 80s, Thompson was an art history and political s

Crunch time (officially the last five minutes of a close game) in general is the ultimate test of an NBA team's ceiling. A win or loss is on the line, everybody is tired and the defensive intensity is usually at its peak. It's also the perfect time for a team to unleash it's best possible five-man combination. If that sounded intense, crunch time in an NBA playoff game is in a whole other galaxy of pressure. Seasons, contracts, money, jobs and legacies are all on the line, out in the open. It's a place where players and teams either realize they can take their game to a higher level (Damian Lillard in 2015), or get their hopes crushed and be endlessly ridiculed as a choker (The 2012-2017 Clippers).  It is not always in a team's best interest to play their best lineups too much in the regular season. The Warriors' feared Death Lineup has only played a total of 127 minutes this season. This is because asking Kevin Durant and Draymond Green to battle with behem