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yourdailykitsch · 4 years

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‘Friday Night Lights’ Cast: Where Are They Now?

Texas forever! Friday Night Lights stole viewers’ hearts for five seasons on NBC — and the cast has just as much love for the series as their fans do. The series was inspired by H.G. Bissinger’s nonfiction book, which was later adapted into the 2004 film of the same name. From 2006 to 2011, the show followed the journeys of high school athletes and their families in a rural Texas town, picking up a Peabody Award, a Television Critics Association Award and several Emmy Award nominations along the way. Five years after the show went off the air, the cast reunited on the real-life Panther Field in Austin, Texas, at the 2016 ATX Television Festival. “Being back here is amazing,” Scott Porter, who played revered athlete Jason Street, told Entertainment Weekly at the time. “We used to play flag football on this field and I think that, even more than shooting out here, means something to me in a special way and to be where those memories were made, where those friendships were really forged and ironed.” Two years later, Porter opened up about the possibility of a revival of the sports drama — but emphasized that he thought the series gave each character the right amount of “closure” by the end. “There’s a lot of shows that end too early and the fanbase and those involved never get the closure that they really need,” he told Us Weekly. “I think a lot of us from Friday Night Lights all got the closure because it ended so well.” Though fans have been holding out hope for a reboot, Adrianne Palicki, who played Tyra Collette, shut down all speculation in April 2020. “I don’t know about you guys but I get this question every time I’m interviewed: Will there be a reunion episode or will there be a spinoff?” the actress asked her fellow costars, who reunited over Zoom for Global Citizen’s #TogetherAtHome special during the coronavirus pandemic. “The answer is no.” Scroll down to learn more about where the cast of Friday Night Lights is today.

Connie Britton (Tami Taylor) The Massachusetts native shined as Dillon High guidance counselor Tami Taylor and later moved on to star in gripping dramas like Nashville, American Horror Story, 9-1-1 and Dirty John.

Kyle Chandler (Coach Taylor) After taking his final bow as beloved high school football coach Eric Taylor, Chandler moved on to the big screen. He had roles in 2011's Super 8, 2012's Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, and later joined Millie Bobby Brown in Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 2019.

Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins) For five seasons, Kitsch stole viewers' hearts as troubled heartthrob Tim Riggins. He's admitted to feeling “complete closure” with his character's end — and ruled out returning for a reunion movie — and has taken on big roles in Battleship, The Normal Heart and Waco.

Zach Gilford (Matt Saracen) Shortly after his status was changed to recurring for seasons 4 and 5 of the sports drama, Gilford made his big screen debut in 2006's The Last Winter. The Illinois native has since gone on to star in a number of indie films and scored a recurring role on NBC’s Good Girls. In December 2012, Gilford tied the knot with actress Kiele Sanchez, who he met while filming the pilot of The Matadors. The duo welcomed daughter Zeppelin Adele via surrogate in November 2017, two years after Sanchez suffered a devastating miscarriage.

Minka Kelly (Lyla Garrity) After leaving Dillon, Texas, in season 3, Kelly went on to appear on shows like Parenthood, Charlie's Angels and Almost Human. Though she tends to keep her personal life relatively private, she admitted during a 2016 radio interview on Power 106 that she didn't mind hearing rumors about who she was dating. "I think it comes with the territory. It's a small price to pay for the extraordinary life that I live," she said at the time. "You just have to find the comedy in all of it."

Jesse Plemons (Landry Clarke) The Texas native took on roles in Breaking Bad and Fargo following his breakthrough performance in Friday Night Lights. After popping the question to Fargo costar Kirsten Dunst in 2017, the duo sparked rumors of a secret wedding ceremony and welcomed their first child together, son Ennis, in May 2018. The Bring It On actress finally confirmed in September 2019 that they hadn’t walked down the aisle just yet.

Scott Porter (Jason Street) Porter made a switch to the big screen after Friday Night Lights, appearing in Bandslam, Dear John and Music and Lyrics. He later starred alongside Rachel Bilson in Hart of Dixie. In 2013, the Nebraska native tied the knot with casting director Kelsey Mayfield, whom he met on the set of the sports drama series.

Aimee Teegarden (Julie Taylor) The California native went on to star in 2011’s Scream 4 and Disney’s Prom the same year. Teegarden was named TV Actress of the Year by the Young Hollywood Awards for her work on Friday Night Lights before its final season. Since then, she’s become a vocal advocate for ocean conservation.

Adrianne Palicki (Tyra Collette) Palicki portrayed Dillon football hater Tyra Collette for the first three seasons of the show, but didn’t return until the final two episodes after leaving the series. The comic book fan later went on to star in Seth MacFarlane's The Orville, where she met longtime boyfriend Scott Grimes. The pair announced their engagement in January 2019 and tied the knot four months later, only to file for divorce that July. TMZ reported in November 2019 that Palicki requested to dismiss her divorce filing.

Brad Leland (Buddy Garrity) The Texas Tech graduate has made guest appearances on a number of popular series throughout his 40-year career, including Veep, Parks and Recreation, Last Man Standing and The Cleveland Show. He shares two daughters, Thea and Leah, with actress Freda Ramsey.

Matt Lauria (Luke Cafferty) After leaving the East Dillon Lions behind, the Virginia native costarred in Parenthood and Shonda Rhimes' Gilded Lilys. In 2019, he joined Gina Rodriguez for the Catherine Hardwicke action-thriller Miss Bala.

Michael B. Jordan (Vince Howard) Jordan scored a breakout role as an up-and-coming quarterback on the final two seasons of Friday Night Lights. Two years after the series finale, he was dubbed "a young Denzel Washington" by The Hollywood Reporter for his performance in Fruitvale Station. The California native later starred in Creed, Black Panther and Just Mercy.

Jurnee Smollett (Jess Merriweather) From 2013 to 2014, the New York City native was a series regular on HBO's True Blood. Us confirmed in March 2020 that the actress had split from husband Josiah Bell after nearly 10 years together. The former pair share son Hunter, who they welcomed in 2016.

#friday night lights #taylor kitsch #tim riggins #Minka Kelly #connie britton #kyle chandler #zach gilford #michael b jordan #jurnee smollett #Adrianne Palicki #aimee teegarden #Scott Porter

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irregularjohnnywiggins · 7 years

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(in response to @mirrorfalls question on my favourite Moriarty, which I answered... then deleted. Because I’m good at tumblr.)

To answer the question of what my favourite versions of Moriarty is, we need to figure out what, imo, makes a ‘good’ Moriarty. For my money, there are three aspects that make Canon Moriarty interesting:

Intellect: probably obvious, but Moriarty is an opposite to the World’s Greatest Detective, so his intellect, like Holmes’, is key to his character.

Familiarity: the phrase ‘everything I have to say has already crossed your mind/then possibly my answer’s crossed yours’ is a cliche of Holmes/Moriarty interactions, but it’s a damn good cliche for a reason. Holmes and Moriarty should have a healthy respect for each other, that’s true, but more importantly they should have this sense of, as Neil Gaiman once said about him and Terry Pratchett: ‘You’re another one of me! I didn’t realize they made another one!’

Savagery: Seems weird given the other two points, but a good Moriarty should always have this point that, if pushed off, attempts to, say, push a guy off a waterfall. If my favourite Holmes is a bleeding heart barely pretending to be an unfeeling machine, Moriarty is barely hiding his inner savage behind the mask of congeniality.

So, with that out of the way, my most interesting (not objectively worse/best, just the ones I feel deserve attention) Moriarty’s from worst to best.

10: BBC Sherlock (Andrew Scott)

Let’s break this down: he’s not 1 because no-one in Sherlock is smart, it’s just Moffat trying to trick the audience with lack of explanation. He’s not 2 because Moffat is so obsessed with twists that Sherlock and Moriarty spend most of their time twisting each other so much that there is no time given to their familiarity between them. He’s not 3 because he’s not savage - he’s a poor man’s Heath Ledger’s Joker, but boring and with more homoerotic subtext. He’s not Moriarty. He’s just boring.

9: Elementary Moriarty (Natalie Dormer)

I really wanted to place her higher because I honestly love Natalie Dormer’s version, but whilst she covers the first two points the focus is more on her torrid romance with Watson Holmes, which is all well and good but does rather detract from her Moriarty-ness.

8: Young Sherlock Holmes (Anthony Higgins)

This version of Moriarty, like this version of Sherlock, is... interesting. We don’t really see his savagery, but the entire movie works to build up his relationship with Holmes. I could have done with a little less racism, though. And a little more actual Egyptian Moriarty in a movie that makes him Egyptian.

7: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

1 and 3, mostly - as interesting as the idea that he’s a former British agent turned actual bad guy is, that’s the disadvantage of removing Holmes from the story - it’s like a Joker story without Batman, Moriarty doesn’t really have anyone to contrast with, and the two people who can contrast with him - Mycroft and Fu Manchu - never share a second of pagetime with him. And yet you can only do Holmes v Moriarty so many times, so how do you make Moriarty interesting without Holmes? Well...

6: Newman’s Moriarty

...You make them the contrast of another character, that’s what. In all seriousness, Newman’s version of Moriarty might not get much to do, but man does he feel good.

The premise of Hound of the D’Urbervilles, i.e. Sherlock Holmes but Moriarty instead, is brilliant at giving us not just how similar Holmes and Moriarty are, but how different - a personal highlight being Moriarty telling Moran that of course he didn’t figure out Moran’s backstory using deductive reasoning, why would he waste his time, he researched everything about him before he entered the room.

I’m not entirely sure if Newman’s Moriarty is savage as opposed to increasingly petty, but his relationship with Moran hints that whilst Holmes looks at people and sees problems to be fixed, Moriarty looks at people and sees tools to be exploited, and that is a pretty sweet contrast that isn’t really explored in other versions.

5: Brett Moriarty (Eric Porter) + Merrison Moriarty (Michael Pennington)

Moving on to a classic Moriarty, whilst I don’t really think Porter adds anything the same way Brett does, he is still a really engaging portrayal. The bit where Holmes and Moriarty exchange a look on the Reichenbach Falls? Brilliant, and it wouldn’t be half as good without his particular portrayal, which stems far closer to the canon than previous ones on this list.

The BBC Radio adaptation is practically tied with this because they’re extremely similar - both attempt to follow canon as closely as possible, whilst adding their own twists. I do prefer the radio version, though, because we get some hint as to how Moriarty’s organization works and how much of a threat Moriarty is. This is actually enhanced by it being radio - whereas Brett’s version has to have Moriarty enter the room because it’s a visual medium, the radio adaptation can just have Holmes playing the violin, suddenly stopping and then revealing Moriarty’s been in the room this whole time. It’s really good, is what I’m getting at. But speaking of canon...

4: Canon

@mirrorfalls said in their original question that no version of Moriarty since the canon has ever actualized the reptilian qualities of Moriarty, and I can’t help but agree. It’s really interesting that Moriarty is linked to an animal whilst Holmes compares his body in another story to ‘a mere appendix’ - something intrinsically human even as it is superficially worthless. The idea of Moriarty in this version - calm, cold, but liable to snap at any point - is quite simply perfect, and the only thing that doesn’t rank him higher is that, in the same way William Hartnell doesn’t rank as one of my favourite Doctors, what it means to be Moriarty has changed so much since his inception. I don’t think Conan Doyle ever intended Moriarty to have the staying power that he did - he’s a plot device, pure and simple. Other authors added to that, and so we’ve got the version of Moriarty which lasts today.

3: Light Yagami

...Hear me out.

No, Light isn’t exactly a traditional Moriarty. For one thing, I’m fairly certain Moriarty doesn’t have a god complex, or a magic notebook that kills people, or a snarky apple loving Death God as a sidekick (Though, who knows, give Moran an apple fixation...) But, there’s a reason I recommend at least the first half of Death Note for anyone wanting a great Holmes/Moriarty story... It’s really good at outlining exactly what makes Moriarty and Holmes so interesting: Mind Games. Mind Games galore.

Watch, say, L’s introduction. Now imagine Holmes challenging Moriarty in the same manner. Hell, Light definitely ticks all of the points of a good Moriarty in this scene alone: he anticipates the police noticing him, he builds such a good rapport with L without either of them actually meeting that I remember losing my shit when I first watched Death Note and realized that this episode would feature the two of them actually meeting face to face, and despite his apparently calm demeanor at first, he immediately kills Lind L Tailor the instant he says something he doesn’t like. Just... he might not be a ‘true’ Moriarty, but he’s a damn good interpretation even if that wasn’t the goal. Speaking of not exactly ‘true’ interpretations...

2: Professor Ratigan (Vincent Fucking Price)

No objections, I trust?

Really, though, I wasn’t someone who watched Great Mouse Detective as a kid - I first watched it about two years ago, and god damn is this a good movie. True Story, when thinking about which Moriarty’s belong on this list, I immediately jumped to Ratigan, because he’s brilliant. He ticks all the boxes and then some - His intellect may not be his primary trait, but it’s still there, and his rapport with Basil is the stuff of legend at this point. And, to be brutally honest, Ratigan is the reason savagery is on this list in the first place. That fight on Big Ben? No version of Reichenbach has yet surpassed it, and it is everything great about this version of that core concept. Really, everything about Ratigan is a summation of how to do a brilliant Moriarty.

So, who can top the World’s Greatest Criminal Mind? Well...

1: RDJ Moriarty (Jared Harris)

Yes, I know, I was surprised to.

I was around during the Sherlock/RDJ films strife. I remember how much these films were lambasted for being ‘too action-packed’ and ‘not cerebral enough’, in stark contrast to the majesty of Sherlock and it’s twerpish plot twists. But when I think of a great Moriarty? Oh, boy, this one kicks Sherlock’s ass.

It’s also irritating, because it’s really hard to point out what makes him better than Ratigan or even Light. His plan is convoluted at best (not that the other two are any better - a good Moriarty does not a decent plan make), not helped by it being exactly the same as his plan in that godawful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie (which, btw, would still be bad even if it didn’t drive Sean Connery away from the film industry, but is far worse on those grounds) but, still, look at this scene. Or this one. Or that fight scene.

Tell me that’s not Moriarty.

That first scene especially runs through all three establishing Moriarty traits, yet perfectly utilizes all of them. We see how smart he is, we see his and Holmes’ respect for one another, but at the same time we see how much Holmes wants to see him behind bars and we have the perfectly paced reveal of his murder of Irene and that he intends to do the same to Watson and Mary. Everything about this scene is brilliant despite it being just the two of them talking. There’s even a bit later in the movie where Moriarty outsmarts Holmes and they communicate the gamut of emotions both characters are feeling through them exchanging a single glance.

So, yes, these films may be a bit too action packed. Yes, they may exaggerate character’s abilities, their plots may be inconsequential for the most part. But goddamn is their Moriarty a classic.

#Sherlock Holmes #anti sherlock #professor moriarty #ranking moriarty #i actually like this one #i might do more of these

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andrewuttaro · 5 years

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New Look Sabres: Preseason GM 4 - TOR - The Olofsson Show

I don’t really know where to begin with this one. I guess until Rasmus Ristolainen is traded every postgame needs to start with updated angst meter. With Risto being on the roster last night my angst rating went from 7/10 on Friday all the way down to a 4/10 on this fine Bills Gameday. I guess it’s still preferred he moves before whatever toxic drama he experienced behind the scenes ruins the locker room dynamic after they lose a couple games in a row. I know the trade trash sites have heated up their production on him the last couple days, but I don’t let that excite me unless Tim Murray is GM, or its clear Terry Pegula is breathing down Jason’s neck about bonus money. So how about we talk about the other skaters? I think I put in my mandatory 4 sentences of Ristolainen. He landed a dirty hit on one of the Leafs top 4 defenseman? Oh well, you can’t beat the classics. Welcome to Toronto, Tyson Barrie. I’m not making an excuse for that hit. It was stupid, ugly and a little too on brand for Risto. I think the more interesting question is does this mean Risto is really going kamikaze to end his time as a Sabre? He wants to go down with some kind of ritual suicide landing the most trash hits possible. Again, painfully on brand for Risto but I think everyone who is going to like him after he leaves will no matter what and the people who aren’t going to lose any sleep about it aren’t losing any sleep about it. I didn’t lose any sleep about it, that was the hard cider.

Yeah, I saw Ad Astra during this game last night. That’s how I do preseason promise: just ignore the game. Don’t see this movie unless you like Art films. Other than the space monkeys the only thing that wasn’t artsy AF was Brad Pitt just wailing for his daddy the whole frigging movie over narration. Well anyway, I came how to Beer pong and a series of drinking games with my siblings. That was fun but uh… sorry about some of the tweets that I let out during this time. I don’t think it was the booze though that made me enjoy this game so much watching it back. The big names came out to play for the home crowd against a Leafs team of Michal Neuvirth, John Tavares, Mitch Marner and the funny name alliance of no-name prospects. Tavares scored a little ways into the first. It was just a net-front redirect but it was in that range of goals Carter Hutton could have stopped. Hutton joined Rasmus Asplund on Chad DeDominicis’s list of the only two Sabres who were outright bad in this game. I’d have to agree on at least three goals against in this game. Henri Jokiharju and Dylan Cozens got back to back starts playing in this game and nothing really jumped off the page for me in this go around for them. That said, all I did was watch the highlight packs with a slight headache, so I probably missed something. Grill me for what I miss in the comments.

The star of this show was really Sam Reinhart. That was obvious even in the highlights. A couple minutes after Tavares’s tally Sam Reinhart scored essentially the same goal from a rebound. That’s right, Sam Reinhart is our John Tavares! And he’s better than JT you know! Lol, whatever I guess we have to troll each other as fanbases whenever we play. How about we just both be good at the same time, so I don’t need to bring up the Sabres have won more playoff series since the lockout even though we haven’t made the playoffs in eight years! OH BURN! Suck on that one, T-Town! What did all you punks do while we were throwing the queen’s tea in the harbor? I’m sure you normies were sipping it hardily you cowards! Okay, enough of that. In the second period Victor Olofsson scored an Ovechkin goal uncovered in the office on a powerplay. The Leafs would tie it up again before the middle frame ended but I really want to dwell on this Olofsson goal for a minute. It was powerplay goal assisted by Jack Eichel and Rasmus Dahlin. In addition to those guys Jeff Skinner and Sam Reinhart were on the ice. Assuming Victor Olofsson does become a scorer like we hope can I submit a formal request to Ralph Krueger and the two new assistant coaches with him? That should be a powerplay unit all season. That group consists of all the bonified scoring talents we have, and Rasmus Dahlin can play defense for the lot of them to whatever degree you need that on a powerplay. I mean, we need that because we’re the Sabres so yeah. In fact Trevor Moore would score a short-handed goal for the Leafs in the third period but not until after… the guy scored… the only guy whose worth mentioning in summer 2016: Jimmy Vesey, JV Vasectomy… uh… I’m sorry guys I think the mean nicknames bit is going to get cut before the end of Training Camp. Kinda sorry not sorry on that one.

That shorthanded Leafs goal by the way was strike two against Hutton last night. I don’t know what you expect when the Sabres are tied with the Leafs going into the last five minutes of regulation, but I normally think W. Last season beat that out of me a little bit, but I have a new hope now. Victor Olofsson scored again but this time from a Reinhart assist from behind the net. Olofsson just kinda passed it into the net. By this point I think the Leafs had Michael Hutchinson in just to remind all the Leafs fans present that this is a preseason game and even though it’s cheaper to drive all the way from Kitchener to Buffalo than to Toronto just because of ticket prices up there doesn’t mean the blue and white actually give a shit about the middle class. Olofsson is the standard bearer this year for the hopes of eternal optimists like me. If he can score just 20-30 goals this season he will be a helpful contribution. It’s guys like that coming in and adding just a little bit that makes us that much closer to a 90-point team. If Victor Olofsson wants to turn this team into the Olofsson show I’m more than pleased to cheer it on. The Leafs were bagged and this one would end 5-3 for the home team. CJ Smith would put in an empty netter in the last minute but those last seconds ticking away beating the Leafs is drained of its joy when it’s the preseason. Oh and sorry, CJ, an empty netter isn’t going to save you from cuts. I hope to see you called up, gee, I hope you survive waivers, but dude, figure it out. There are teenage Swedes whose names sound like Star Wars characters jumping you on the depth chart now. That segways nicely into cuts.

Before the unfortunately mostly rather expected cuts I want to debut a new bit. For games I’m writing up the next day, particularly ones that life stopped me from watching, I’ll be picking a reply to one of my Sabres tweets about the game for analysis. That’s right, your reply guy moment is going to find its way into New Look Sabres this season! Please contain your excitement. Our first ever Reply Guy Analysis comes from one of my most loyal followers: Jonathan who is leaning into the millennial theme with a couple snowflakes around his name @LakeEffectXJ, says: “Was fun and entertaining. A nice reminder exactly how good Olofsson’s shot is, a surprise for many how good Miller’s shot is, and we got reintroduced to how good Reinhart is and that he should be running his own line.” Thanks Jonathan, onto the cuts. Arttu Ruotsalainen saves Rob Ray and RJ from almost certainly butchering his name and gets sent back to the good old Liiga with two I’s. Everyone else cut is going to the Rochester Americans including CJ Smith and Andrew Hammond who both need to clear waivers. Hopefully both those guys do. The fun part of doing these blogs the day after is having information like this. Assuming you haven’t read the list of cuts and are too lazy to go read it now that you’ve made it this far here I’ll just list them out for you: Eric Cornell, Sean Malone, Andrew Oglevie, Kyle Olson, Kevin Porter, CJ Smith, Jacob Bryson, Casey Fitzgerald, Brandon Hickey, Zach Redmond, Devante Stephens, Andrew Hammond, Michael Houser, and Jonas Johansson. Amerks Training Camp starts Monday.

As always like, share and comment on yours truly’s special Sabres blog. Hopefully this was your break from the Bills game reading. In which case I have to warn you to not try to hold a loaded hot dog in one hand and your phone in the other. You think it’s easy but it’s not. Why ruin that nice jersey? I’ll be really honest and say I have never looked forward to a Bills game in my entire life as much as this one. I was a drought baby and a certain stinker in Jacksonville wasn’t going to get me pumped a couple years back. Anyway, I hope you come on back to read again as we have two more preseason games and the closing of Training Camp before we can actually get excited about beating teams. I think I speak for everyone when I hope we actually win enough for it to meaningful this season.

Thanks for Reading.

P.S. Moore shoving Olofsson into the Leafs bench was kinda fun I guess. Sportsnet said it led to the ensuing Leafs goal which I suppose it did but I thought taking guys out of the play was bad.

#buffalo sabres #Toronto Maple Leafs #NHL #Hockey #blog

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investmart007 · 6 years

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Loyola has hoops fans 'sitting on the edge of their chairs'

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Loyola has hoops fans 'sitting on the edge of their chairs'

ATLANTA /March 22, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) — The graying reminders of Loyola-Chicago’s basketball history are hanging on the Ramblers’ captivating run through the NCAA Tournament.

Sitting in front-row seats, four members of that 1963 Loyola championship team were glued to every play Thursday night, trying to will their alma mater to victory.

“We need a stop,” Jerry Harkness, the captain of that ’63 team, said in the waning minutes. “We just need a stop.”

They got it.

And then Marques Townes sank a decisive 3-pointer with only 6.3 seconds remaining to help clinch the Ramblers’ 69-68 win over Nevada in the NCAA South Regional semifinal on Thursday night.

“The whole nation must be sort of sitting on the edge of their chairs tonight,” said Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola’s 98-year-old team chaplain.

Sister Jean has become a celebrity during the tournament.

This whole team has.

And the Ramblers came through again Thursday night on the shoulders of their latest hero. Townes launched his 3-pointer from in front of the Loyola bench with the shot clock about to expire.

“He was a warrior,” said Loyola coach Porter Moser.

Townes, who had 18 points, charged down the court, pumping his fist, following the shot.

“I’ll probably remember it for the rest of my life,” Townes said. “I mean, it doesn’t really get any better than that.”

Loyola, the No. 11 seed, will face Kansas State, the No. 9 seed, in Saturday’s regional final. It will be the first-ever 9 vs 11 matchup in the Elite Eight, a fitting end to region that became the first to have the top four seeds eliminated on the opening weekend.

Loyola (31-5) has won three tournament games by a combined four points.

Not bad for a program that hadn’t been in the Sweet 16 in 33 years.

Harkness cheered with teammates Les Hunter, John Egan and Rich Rochelle as Loyola moved closer to the Final Four.

The 1963 team beat top-ranked Cincinnati in the championship game, but the team is better remembered for the “Game of Change” against Mississippi State earlier in the tournament. Loyola regularly started three or more black players, and Mississippi State played the game despite orders from Mississippi’s segregationist governor to boycott it.

Nevada called a timeout after Townes’ shot gave the Ramblers a 69-65 lead. Nevada’s Caleb Martin answered with a 3, but this time the Wolf Pack couldn’t extend their string of second-half comebacks in the tournament.

“Got to give so much credit to Nevada, they never quit,” Moser said. “Those guys keep coming at you, coming at you. … I was blessed we made a couple of plays at the end, got a couple of stops.”

On a team that shares the spotlight, this was Townes’ moment. He made each of his two 3s and led Loyola with five assists. He said he was fine after banging knees with Nevada’s Jordan Caroline at the end of the game.

“I think Marques Townes is the best player on the court tonight,” said Loyola guard Clayton Custer. “I don’t even think it was close, either. … This is unbelievable. Feels like a dream.”

Martin led Nevada (29-8) with 21 points. Twin brother Cody Martin had 16. Jordan Carolina added 19.

“We get a stop on the 3 they shot at the buzzer and maybe we’re sitting up here with a win,” said Nevada coach Eric Musselman.

Caleb Martin bemoaned his missed defensive opportunity before Townes’ big 3.

“I should have denied the catch,” Martin said of Loyola’s pass to Townes. “I just got lost and it was costly.”

For Sister Jean and the gray-haired guys in the front row, the remarkable ride continues for at least one more game.

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By Associated Press – published on STL.News by St. Louis Media, LLC (A.S)

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junker-town · 7 years

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Kristaps Porzingis is the right man for New York.

But are the Knicks the right franchise for him? This year will determine a lot.

BOSTON -- Kristaps Porzingis, the one true unicorn, was going to work. The game opened with Al Horford guarding him. Horford is a master of positioning, as crafty as they come, but Horford is 6-9 and Porzingis is 7-3 so the obvious ploy was to shoot over him whenever Porzingis could get an advantage.

KP opened by securing the high post, but his jumper missed the mark. Next he tried attacking the basket on a pick-and-roll, but he couldn’t get all the way to the rim. He then tried to establish low-post position, but there was no entry pass. Finally, he tried to create for himself with a pull-up jumper, but that clanged off the rim.

It went like that for the rest of the night. Porzingis couldn’t connect. Passes and actions that should have funneled through him went nowhere. He couldn’t take advantage of smaller defenders like Horford and Jaylen Brown, and he didn’t do much of anything at all against rookie Semi Ojeleye. For one night, the unicorn was rendered invisible.

His task this season is carrying the team night after night in city after city with all the defensive pressure mounted squarely on his back. Maintaining that level will be the hardest thing for Porzingis. His body makes him unique, and it also makes him a target. He came back from Europe with a maintenance plan to get through the 82 games, focusing on rest and recovery.

“If I can stay fresh throughout the 82 games, then I’ll be fine and I know I’ll be ready to play at a high level,” Porzingis said. “Eating, sleeping, all that. Just non-stop thinking about that. That’s what I did this summer and that’s what I’m going to try to do this season.”

He will have to deal with smaller defenders -- they will all be smaller -- getting into his space and trying to cut him down at the knees. He will have to deal with double and even triple teams. Opponents will be physical with him because how else do you try to stop a 7-3 dude with this kind of game? He knows that, and he thinks he will be better prepared.

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This was not all about Kristaps. The Knicks were bad on Tuesday night. Really bad. They were so bad that afterward Tim Hardaway Jr. and Courtney Lee both lamented the lack of cohesion on the offensive end. “We were all out there running around like we don’t know what’s going on,” Hardaway said. “And it can’t happen.”

Lee took it a step further: “There were a lot of possessions, like the normal eye might not see it, but we messed up on a lot of plays whether it was the ball getting delivered on time, or one or two guys not being on the same page as far as the play calling. That’s on us, we got to pay attention more in practice and make sure we execute when we’re out there.”

Everyone is entitled to an off night, and Porzingis had been brilliant in his first two games, scoring 64 points in a variety of ways. It’s not that he doesn’t have a go-to move yet, it’s that he has so many options at his disposal with his uncommon range, athleticism, and reach.

Porzingis can do everything and that’s part of the problem. He will have to do a lot of it by himself, given the lack of a penetrating guard or a wing creator. With Carmelo Anthony gone, he is the unquestioned man of the New York Knicks. Welcome to the maelstrom.

Porzingis is just 22 years old, one of the handful of wunderkinds currently playing in the NBA tasked with carrying franchises even while they develop their own games. That task is made harder in that he is playing for a team in the midst of a transition wrapped in a transformation.

That his team is in New York, as opposed to say Milwaukee or Minnesota, means that his every move and every utterance will be chopped up and scrutinized for backpage consumption. He will not be allowed to falter anonymously.

Porzingis is one of the few young players who seems not only equipped to handle New York, but born to play the role. He is funny and sharp enough to spar with the New York press and he’s blessed with a game that’s been sanctified by every discerning corner of New York fandom. He is their adopted Latvian son and woe to anyone who tries to mess with him. Including the New York Knicks.

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It’s hard to remember a Knick savior that’s ever had this amount of goodwill built up at the beginning of his tenure. Lord knows Latrell Sprewell, Allan Houston, Amar’e Stoudemire, and Carmelo Anthony had their skeptics and critics throughout their runs. Even the sainted Patrick Ewing had to deal with the ill-fated twin-towers experiment along Bill Cartwright and a handful of coaching changes in his first few seasons.

That will come in handy because this season figures to test everyone’s resolve. The Knicks have a couple of young players they like, including rookie point guard Frank Ntilikina and young big man Willy Hernangomez. But Ntilikina has been dealing with injuries since summer league and Hernangomez has been dropped from the rotation in favor of Enes Kanter and Kyle O’Quinn.

The Knicks are a year away from being a year away. In an ideal world, they’ll develop their kids while Porzingis adjusts to life as the number-one option. They’ll make individual progress while losing a sufficient number of games to draw a high draft pick and take a shot on a player like Luka Doncic, Michael Porter, or Marvin Bagley.

For just about every other franchise in the league, this would be easy. The Knicks are never easy. Porzingis is playing for his third coach in as many seasons, if you count the interim tenure of Kurt Rambis who wanted him to play like it was 1989. He’s also on his third lead executive, if you count the interim run of team president Steve Mills, who signed Hardaway for $71 million before the team hired Scott Perry.

From last year: How the Knicks began to rebuild their offense around Kristaps Porzingis.

In Perry, there is hope. He is widely respected throughout the league and widely connected. He is not under the spell of a particular basketball philosophy. As a decision-maker, Perry offers the best kind of hope for a rebuilding franchise: patient, restrained, and smart.

The first of many tests to that approach is already happening with Eric Bledsoe due to be traded after a fallout with Phoenix. Bledsoe is exactly the kind of player the Knicks have pursued in panic-driven maneuvers over the years. While he would undoubtedly help now, he would also compromise a good chunk of their future. The Knicks are reportedly not inclined to deal any of their young players. This is a good sign.

If the Knicks can just give this a little bit of time ... if Ntilinka can be the point guard of their dreams, if Hernangomez can provide an interior compliment to Porzingis, if they can simply maneuver from Point A to Point B without a self-inflicted catastrophe, then there is hope.

Porzingis offers the best route toward a long and prosperous run. Teams spend years trying to luck into a player like this in the draft. Landing one is the hardest part, regardless of front office dexterity or brilliant maneuvering. Now he just needs to live up to the role.

“At the end of the day I always try to make things simple for myself,” he said. “I’m just playing basketball out there. I know it’s going to be physical. I know guys are going to try and come at me, but at the end of the day just play basketball and have fun.”

Good luck having fun in New York. The city is many things, but fun hasn’t really been part of the equation. Kristaps Porzingis could be the one to change that dynamic. In many ways, he should be the one to usher in a bold new world for Knicks basketball. It would take a unicorn, frankly.

It would take someone like Kristaps Porzingis.

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Your Friday Morning Roundup

There’s about five days until the Flyers take on the San Jose Sharks in their regular season opener. And most of their lineup is set in stone.

Five different Flyers scored in the 5-1 win over the Boston Bruins, including Travis Konecny’s third of the preseason. The power play unit also went 2-for-7, which was one of the team’s weak areas throughout the preseason. Alex Lyon played the entire game in goal for the Flyers, stopping 31-of-32 shots he faced, while starter Brian Elliott was a healthy scratch. And for some reason, Nolan Patrick decided to fight.

Robert Hagg, Taylor Leier, Oskar Lindblom, Andrew MacDonald, and Michael Raffl were other notable healthy scratches for the game. Who could be safe and who might start the season in Lehigh Valley?

Let’s start at forward: I think Raffl is a lock, as well as Lindblom. Taylor Leier is an NHL-caliber player, but with Patrick and Scott Laughton in front of him, Leier might have to start in the AHL.

There a very slim chance Ron Hextall decides to send Patrick back to juniors, but I absolutely see him contributing immediately with the big club.

The defense is still uncertain. Outside of Radko Gudas, Ivan Provorov, and Shayne Gostisbehere, four spots are up for grabs. Sam Morin, Travis Sanheim, and Robert Hagg have had their share of good and bad moments this preseason, but also have MacDonald and Brandon Manning with them. Morin is a beast at 6-6 and I would love for him to finally crack the Flyers roster. Hagg is the most NHL ready out of all three, and I think I see him and Morin up with the Flyers.

I would love to never see Andrew MacDonald again, but unless a team decides they want to eat up part of his huge cap hit, he’s sticking around. Manning is the more likely candidate for a trade, which means Sanheim stays in Lehigh Valley for another year.

The preseason concludes Sunday at home against the New York Islanders at 5 pm, which is in the middle of Eagles-Chargers.

In other Flyers news, Wayne Simmonds would rather discuss the actual issues involving racial inequality instead of kneeling.

The roundup:

The Eagles continue to get ready for their game in LA against the Chargers. After filling in for Jordan Hicks in the second half of last week’s win over the Giants, Mychal Kendricks still isn’t happy with the amount of playing time he’s getting.

A year and three games into his career, Carson Wentz is already showing he’s in charge of the offense:

Sunday highlighted the significant freedoms Wentz has in operating this offense. Pederson explained that there is a “take-it system” that the coach can shift into at any point in the game where he just gives Wentz the formation and has the quarterback take it from there, the restriction being that the plays are to be pulled from that week’s game plan. The playbook is loaded with run-pass options (RPOs), allowing Wentz to make a judgement call at the line of scrimmage based on how he reads the defense.

Center Jason Kelce believes Wentz — just 19 games into his professional career — has more pre-snap authority than any quarterback he’s worked with in his seven years in the pros.

“Under Chip [Kelly] we weren’t switching in and out of things. I though Sam [Bradford] was a guy that probably could do something like this, but he just didn’t get to do that. [Michael] Vick certainly had the ability to change the play and do certain things like that. We just probably do a little more of it with Carson,” he said.

“If you have a guy who can do it and you have a guy that’s good at it, obviously being in a conducive play is huge for the offense. Having the numbers be correct on a run play, you still have to block it up when the play is called, but it definitely sets you off the right foot. You’re not running uphill, you’re running downhill at that point.”

But why is Wentz struggling with the deep ball?

Wendell Smallwood may have a chance to become a feature back for the Eagles, and he could be worth picking up in fantasy leagues.

Kyle talked to Merrill and Mike on the Jake Elliott kick and their brand new podcast.

SB Nation did a cheesy video feature on Randall Cunningham and the 1987 Eagles.

Game predictions will come later today.

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Over in Camden, Sixers training camp continued. Markelle Fultz is experimenting with new shooting mechanics.

It might take some time until Fultz is ready to take on some of the NBA’s top talent:

“It’s two things,” Brown said. “The first is the athleticism in the men who jump you right from the get-go. It is relentless. There is no sort of unforgiving stage. It is very, very ruthless, what he’s going to experience — not so much in preseason, but when all of a sudden John Wall crawls into him, and Otto Porter’s length is alive, you realize there is an athleticism and there are men, and it catches people off-guard. And then we’re going to talk about January the 10th, and we’re going to talk about a rookie wall because of the nature of our league.”

Because of the teammates surrounding him, because of their skills, Fultz may have more room on the court than Carter-Williams did. But that doesn’t mean teams will leave him alone. Everyone around the league knows, even from just his one season at the University of Washington, that Fultz can handle the ball and shoot well enough to excel in pick-and-roll situations. Opponents will try to prevent him from creating those matchups when he’s on offense, and they’ll try to trap him in those matchups when he’s on defense.

I also love his Players’ Tribune video, where he makes fun of his draft day Instagram blunder:

.@MarkelleF's first @sixers media day was … just watch. http://pic.twitter.com/PkJwxlKEa5

— The Players' Tribune (@PlayersTribune) September 28, 2017

You can also start buying new Sixers Nike products this morning. Jerseys will be available through the Wells Fargo Center New Era Team Store this weekend, and the 11th Street Team Store will have special hours today and Saturday from 10 am until 5 pm, and Sunday from 10am until 1pm.

Jerseys can also be purchased online via Shop.WFCPhilly.com today at 10 am until October 12.

Head coach Brett Brown sees some interesting qualities in Furkan Korkmaz:

“I mean, really just trying to get him defensively built, like an attitude and a mindset to try to grow him as a defender,” Brown told reporters Thursday. “He can score. He’s got a real sort of interesting body for a basketball player in his position. He’s long and he’s lanky. Years ago I coached Brent Barry (who had) sort of that bouncy, pogo stick, can shoot, can dunk (body type). I see, you know, that (Furkan) has got some real interesting qualities. The defensive side needs work. I’m always trying to help and grow him, like you would any rookie, from a defensive standpoint.”

Part of the defensive improvement comes with bulk, and Korkmaz has already added about 15 pounds to his 175 pound frame. He won’t be finishing around the rim any time soon, but he’s a tall perimeter shooter with plenty of upside depending on how he adapts to NBA physicality.

The Sixers and Nik Stauskas have not engaged in contract extension discussions.

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The Phillies wrap up the regular season this weekend at home against the New York Mets. Ben Lively takes on Matt Harvey.

Odubel Herrera takes an insanely long time during his at-bats, and that might change next year:

Major League Baseball will introduce rule changes this winter to help quicken the game. Average game times this season — 3 hours, 5 minutes for a nine-inning game — are 15 minutes longer than 10 years ago. The new rules have yet to be announced, but they could force a batter to stay inside the batter’s box or even employ a clock that times when a pitch must be thrown. Herrera’s routine will have to change.

“I’ll adjust if they change the rule or if they make it a rule,” Herrera said. “I’ll adjust to it. I don’t think I have a choice there.”

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In other sports news, there was a Thursday Night Football game. The Packers beat the Bears 35-14. You didn’t watch? Good, because it was bad. Example:

Have a feeling this Mike Glennon kick-fumble is going to become an unfortunate meme. #Bears http://pic.twitter.com/xT5lgAqpaP

— Larry Hawley (@HawleySports) September 29, 2017

This was also bad, for different reasons:

Don’t let Danny Trevathan play the rest of the season for this garbage http://pic.twitter.com/Vf820PRPTP

— Barstool Sports (@barstooltweetss) September 29, 2017

And this hot mic caught the best reaction to every Thursday Night Football game.

NBA Draft reform, along with new rules on resting players, passed yesterday. Even though draft reform will give the three worst teams an equal 14% chance at the top pick, the “Sam Hinkie rule” may not stop tanking.

The league has a legitimate interest in its worst teams not feeling as if they have to get any more embarrassingly bad in order to secure improved lottery odds. The NBA does not want to relive Trust The Process, even though the architect of the most aggressive — and most coldly rational — multiyear tank job in league history was ousted precisely because of the scheme’s naked aggression. It would kindly prefer the Suns not send Eric Bledsoe home for two months; new rest regulations, also approved Thursday, may take care of that.

Reform may change team behavior on the fringes. Bledsoe types may play more. The next version of the Sixers might be more open to signing a couple of stable veterans, even at the “risk” of winning a couple more games. April basketball will be a little less bad.

Multiple NBA players have severed ties with agent Andy Miller in the wake of the FBI corruption probe in college basketball:

Los Angeles Clippers center Willie Reed filed the claim in part because of Christian Dawkins, one of the 10 people arrested on federal corruption charges on Tuesday. Dawkins was reportedly terminated by Miller and his company, ASM, in early May following a National Basketball Players Association probe into the unauthorized use of a player’s personal credit card.

However, Dawkins remained the primary ASM representative for Reed and other players, including Indiana Pacers rookie Edmond Sumner. Justin Patton of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Sumner both fired Miller since the FBI investigation became public, sources told ESPN.

But Joel will always Trust The Process:

Trust The Process https://t.co/7qHHiDomjz

— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) September 28, 2017

Mets owner Fred Wilpon protected manager Terry Collins from being fired after other front office heads wanted the manager out:

People with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, described organizational dysfunction, discord between Collins and his players, and a broken relationship between the manager and the front office.

Despite what the front office perceived as Collins’ constant tactical blunders and concerns about his relationships with the players, sources said efforts to explore a change seriously were thwarted by the elder Wilpon.

“I don’t interfere,” Fred Wilpon said while declining an interview request earlier this season.

A high school football team in Upstate New York is forfeiting their season after seven players took OxyContin before one of their games.

In a statement released Monday afternoon, Geneseo Central Schools Superintendent Tim Hayes wrote, “These dismissals stem from serious violations of the district’s Code of Conduct and Athletic Eligibility Standards.”

“Due to the sheer number of student-athletes involved and the serious nature of this incident…, the remainder of the varsity football season will be forfeited,” wrote Hayes.

During a late afternoon press conference, Hayes said the decision was painful because it also affected several players and families who were innocent and had done nothing wrong. Some of those innocent players, said Hayes, had come forward to report the drug use. However, Hayes explained the number of students involved made it impossible to field enough players to continue the varsity football program this year.

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In the news, 6abc New Jersey reporter Nora Muchanic and cameraman Andy Doane are retiring at the end of October.

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus revealed she has breast cancer.

Just when you thought… http://pic.twitter.com/SbtYChwiEj

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) September 28, 2017

Elon Musk has another idea for how to send people to Mars.

The first trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 is out and it looks really stunning.

Gambling while playing Pac-Man. You can do that now.

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Disclosure's 15 Best Songs: Critics' Picks

Do you think Howard and Guy Lawrence’s parents birthed them in a UK garage warehouse party? How else could two kids born in ’94 and ’91 respectively understand to such depths the feelings and vibrations of an era they can’t possibly remember? It’s mind boggling, but there’s no denying Disclosure is one of the absolutely pulse setters of a nostalgic generation of dance producers.

When Disclosure hit, people were literally walking up to DJ booths asking “hey, can you play more stuff that sounds like Disclosure?” It was almost it’s own genre, and it is a retro-influenced sound that went on to define the next three years of the greater genre. Even future house is in some very arguable way a response to the basic tenants Disclosure set in place. This is the band that killed “EDM” as a concept. This is the band that helped introduce thousands to the real roots of “house.” This is a band worth celebrating, and this is a list of the 10 best Disclosure songs so far.

15. Disclosure – “Grab Her!”

This song is kind of strange. That stair-walking robot synth, those twinkling keys, that forceful sample. It’s actually a clip of J Dilla, one of the duo’s biggest influences, and he’s not really saying “grab her,” but it sounds like it does, hence the song name. It’s a whole lot of freaky, funky fun. Guy Lawrence said of the song, “I made that after being on a pretty serious weekend out with my friends listening to a lot of DJs, and that is just the remains of the resonant tinnitus in my ears that came out musically the next day.”

14. Disclosure – “Good Intentions” with Miguel

This sultry little number has me imagining dark rooms and scented candles and satin sheets. Maybe that’s the fault of Miguel’s sensual vocal work, or maybe it’s the Lawrence brothers’ deep, rolling synth work. Something about this Disclosure song just promises naughty things, and everyone knows naughty is nice.

13. Disclosure – “Confess To Me” with Jessie Ware

I just can’t resist this wonky bassline. Ware was added in the 11th hour, replacing Howard’s original vocals. An old friend of the brothers, Ware came in and added verses to the track, stamping “Confess to Me” and the game-changing Settle with her mark forever more.

12. Disclosure – “Omen” with Sam Smith

Sam Smith and Disclosure blew up together thanks to their mega-hit “Latch,” so you know they had to get back in the studio for Caracal. “Omen” is a bit more late-night than “Latch,“ and people loved the vibe. “Omen” charted in 24 countries, further proving the perfection of Smith’s smooth croon when cascaded across Disclosure’s bedroom beats.

11. Disclosure – “Magnets with Lorde

No, you shouldn’t sleep with other girl’s boyfriends, but Lorde makes it sound like an exotic adventure one just has to give a go. Side pieces, rejoice! Lorde is one of your kind. The bridge here is perhaps the best part of the song. Lorde’s smoky voice in tandem with the syncopated percussion lures you into the hook, just as she leads you to make all kinds of bad decisions behind closed doors.

10. Disclosure – “Help Me Lose My Mind”

Here we explore the softer side of Disclosure. In fact, in the duo’s track-by-track analysis of Settle on Spotify, the brothers explain how they built “Help Me Lose My Mind” to match singer Hannah Reid’s softer spoken demeanor. Disclosure still give us the beating bass and persistent snare, but it all melts into the background under the ghostly synths and Reid’s alluringly rich vocals.

9. Disclosure – “Nocturnal” with The Weeknd

Disclosure’s second album Caracal is a strong step into the world of pop music, a message to fans telling what kind of band Disclosure sees itself being at its core. Settle earned them the right to work with whatever vocalist they wanted, and opening your LP with vocals from The Weeknd is surely a dream come true. This track has all the subtle darkness of its singer’s classic catalog mixed with the shining dance floor romance of its producers. It’s also a strong thematic predecessor to The Weeknd’s own recent disco-inspired release Starboy.

8. Disclosure – “Superego” with Nao

How you gonna write a song about an egotistical maniac and then go and make it so bouncy, the listener walks around struttin’ like the song’s protagonist? This is one of those songs you fall in love with immediately upon listening. Some fans wanted to critique Caracal for being less than earth-shattering following Settle‘s paradigm shifting greatness, but I say this song is right up there with anything Settle had to offer.

7. Disclosure – “Holding On” with Gregory Porter

Watch your step as you descend from the time machine. Take this flannel and tie it around your waist, ad be sure to grasp this bottle of water firmly in your right hand as you shake it for dear life to the beat. There you go, you’re ready for the ’90s dance floor. Alright, so “Holding On” is still decidedly modern, but it This song is damn near the perfect groove. Now, get out there and shake it, shake shake it.

6. Disclosure – “You & Me” with Eliza Doolittle

Flume’s remix of this Disclosure song is hugely popular, and it’s often the first version that comes to mind when I read the title, but this upbeat rhythm is nothing to be overlooked. This is glorious girl’s-night-out stuff, the perfect track for those moments on the dance floor when you get lost in thought then find yourself suddenly ripped back into the middle of the action. It’s the sound love makes just before you fall into it face first, when you’re still feeling pretty independent and wanna act like your crush is no big deal, but you know you’re lying.

5. Disclosure – “Voices” with Sasha Keable

Sasha Keable has such a perfect voice for this track, fittingly titled “Voices,” strangely enough. She is powerful and strong, even if the lyrics imply a willingness to give in to temptations too great to resist. It’s an easy siren’s call to answer on top of this delicious garage-inspired beat. This was the sixth single from Settle, but it was no less popular in DJ sets around the world.

4. Disclosure – “F For You” with Howard Lawrence

This is a Disclosure song so dope, Mary J. Blige had to jump on a remix, still, I want to throw it up to the original version, which says a lot about how much I really love me some Howard Lawrence vocals. For a track about playing a fool, it’s quite the cocky rhythm. Even Howard’s vocals drip with a certain slickness. I’m also going to nominate “I’ve been infected with restless whispers and cheats / That manifested in words and the lies that you speak” as two of the best lyrical lines ever written.

3. Disclosure – “When a Fire Starts to Burn”

I’m gonna Settle something once and for all. That sample? It’s from a monologue by Eric Thomas, a Chicago-based motivational speaker, author, and minister, the self-proclaimed “hip hop preacher.” He’s got a series of videos called T.G.I.M., and this is from episode 30, and this is quite clearly one of the greatest uses of sampling in the history of ever. Be honest, you didn’t catch every word in that last part, but you’re on the dance floor screaming it in your friend’s faces through a sloppy drunk grin anyway. Dr. Thomas isn’t even saying this shit to a backbeat, he just has the funky spirit running through him. Disclosure uses his encouraging message to elevate an already holy groove, and your feet on damn sure on fire by the time this track is over.

2. Disclosure – “White Noise” with AlunaGeorge

The first time I heard this song, it was nothing short of a revelation. It was early 2013, I was sitting on my then-boyfriend’s couch, and I’m pretty sure I stood up with a very serious look on my face all “Hey, hey, who is this?” I haven’t looked back sense. Disclosure is close to godliness, and so is AlunaGeorge, for that matter – which is two people, by the way. The singer is Aluna, and she is absolutely divine on this subtle anthem. It’s not an in your face tune, but it is arresting.

1. Disclosure – “Latch” with Sam Smith

In 2013, my buddy told me he used Settle as his finishing move whenever he wanted to get a girl in bed. He said that by the time “Latch” came on, it was sex city. I believe him, I mean, can you fight the raw silky smoothness of Sam Smith’s falsetto? Didn’t think so, and neither can the rest of the world who made “Latch” the biggest hit of Disclosure career to date. It helped launch Sam Smith into an absolutely star, as well as the Disclosure boys and this whole UK house revival sound. It helped change the direction of dance music. No small feat, to be sure, and it’s still one of best, most infectious, organically soulful tunes this decade has seen.

Source: Billboard

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