Name: Adam Hoff
Dateline: Chicago, IL
Weblog: wisinsider.blogspot.com
Articles: 59
First Published: Monday, March 20, 2006
Last Published: Sunday, January 6, 2008
Currently listing articles 59-1:
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My 2007 Soundtrack of the Year: Knocked Up— Selecting the best soundtrack of 2007 by recognizing Judd Apatow's ear for music.
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My 2007 Album Of The Year: Boxer by The National— The Brooklyn trio's intricate, atmospheric fourth LP is my choice for 2007's album of the year.
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Music Review: The Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams— Breaking down my Rap Album of the Year
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Raiders Must Take Quinn— Note to the Raiders: Andrew Walter is NOT your quarterback of the future.
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Hip-Hop Regional Report: Here Comes the "New West"— It is the dawn of a new era for West Coast hip-hop, with a host of up and coming stars set to emerge.
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Music Review: Jay-Z - Kingdom Come— Jay's comeback attempt has been roundly criticized, but is the criticism fair?
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The Regional Report: Papoose Is Having a Big Month— The Brooklyn MC responds to the Sean Bell shooting in NYC and then delivers a monster freestyle verse.
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Music Review: Mos Def - "Undeniable"— Mos Def's Grammy-nominated song from the upcoming Tru3 Magic sounds oddly familiar, and not in a good way.
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Music Review: Eminem featuring 50 Cent - The Re-Up— Eminem is back, but it is partner-in-crime 50 Cent that makes the newsworthy return on this one.
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One Man's Heisman Poll: Final Edition— Troy Smith runs away with college football's most prestigious award.
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Music Review: Common - "I Have a Dream"— Checking out the newest offering from Common.
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Music Review: Checking in on Nas' Upcoming Hip-Hop is Dead— Taking a look at the five most recently released tracks from Nasty Nas.
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"And Now Eric's Secretary is in a Coma" - A BCS Mess— Trying to sort through all of the BCS possibilities, while also finding a way to quote from Billy Madison.
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One Man's Heisman Poll: Sixth Edition— Ray Rice and Darren McFadden were monsters last week, but the Big Three remains intact.
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Music Review: The Game - Doctor's Advocate— A track-by-track review of the Game's highly anticipated second album.
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One Man's Heisman Poll: Fifth Edition
— Slaton fumbles away chance, McFadden is week's biggest riser, and the Smith/Quinn debate rages on.
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More Than a Feeling: The Fourth Edition of the Heisman Poll
— The boldest poll yet has Brady Quinn on top based almost completely on a hunch.
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Music Review: Jay-Z's First Three Tracks Off Kingdom Come
— The first quarter of the comeback album is out in the open and the results aren't great.
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Hip-Hop Regional Report: Breakout Artists Abound in the Mid-Atlantic— An underrated and untapped region is set to explode onto the hip-hop scene.
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Heisman Chase: Brady "Houdini" Quinn is Charging Hard
— Troy Smith looks like a lock- except for the fact that his primary challenger is an escape artist playing for Notre Dame.
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These Detroit Tigers Look Awfully Familiar— Detroit has quite a bit in common with several recent World Series champs.
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Fabolous and Sebastian Telfair: Hip-Hop and Hoops Collide— This is probably a rude thing to say about an incident that resulted in a guy being shot, but don't rule out "publicity stunt."
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Second Edition of the Chase for the Sculpted Man
— A bad week for running backs not named Hart and a good week for players that didn't even play. Lunacy!
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The New TV Show Power Rankings: Second Edition— Heroes emerging as the big winner of the early fall slate; Six Degrees and The Nine Flounder.
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Hip-Hop Regional Report: Who's Got Next in NYC?— The up-and-coming artists looking to put New York back on top of hip-hop.
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Movie Review: The Departed - Scorsese's Time Has Come— Martin Scorsese's long-running and highly unfortunate Oscarless streak might finally be coming to an end with The Departed.
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NFL: The Early Awards— Celebrating the first five weeks of the NFL season by handing out some awards.
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The New TV Show Power Rankings
— Why not? We have Power Rankings for everything else.
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The Heisman Race Heats Up— Cobbling together a top-10 list of candidates midway through the season.
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Houston Looks to Change the Face of the NL Playoffs— If the Astros catch the Cardinals this weekend, we might have more to talk about than an epic St. Louis collapse.
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Hey, University of Oklahoma: Shut Up Already!— For a few brief hours, I actually felt some sympathy for the University of Oklahoma. Now? Not so much.
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NFL: Week Four Looms Large for Randy Moss— Circle Cleveland at Oakland on your NFL schedule if you care about Randy Moss' legacy.
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Revisiting The Rap Album That Saved the South (For Me)— Why T.I.'s 2003 release Trap Muzik is the jewel of my southern rap collection.
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Giddy With Anticipation For The Black Dahlia of College Football Weekends— Hope you have access to multiple television sets this weekend, because this could be one for the books.
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Lupe Fiasco: The Best Album I've Ever Played Video Games To— Lupe Fiasco has turned out the best (unofficial) rap album in years and I've got proof... sort of.
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MLB: Thanks a Lot, Steroid Era
— How the sports world is being cheated during Ryan Howard's season for the ages.
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The Best Hip Hop of 2006... So Far— Taking a stab at listing the eight best releases from the first eight months of the year.
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NCAA Football: Breaking Down the Pac-10
— Predicting how the (underrated) West will be won.
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MLB: Candidates, Get Your MVP Candidates!— Breaking down the MVP races in both leagues.
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Cedric Benson Could Make Chicago Un-Bear-Able— The Bears' running back battle is a classic NFL cover-up.
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Rapper Saigon and HBO's Entourage: An Unlikely Pairing— Even better than the storyline is the fact that Saigon is more than just an up-and-coming rapper on a TV show.
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The Minnesota Twins' Forgotten Lefty
— Why can't MVP candidate Justin Morneau get any love?
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MLB 2006 All-Star Picks
— It's that time of the year when we all argue about MLB All-Star picks.
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The Downfall of the Detroit Pistons: Much Ado About Nothing— The Pistons have had a nice run, but we're not talking about a dynasty here.
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Heat-Pistons: Wade Returns as Superman— Dwyane Wade is all the way back and is now dominating the 2006 NBA Playoffs.
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Leandro Barbosa and "The Iverson Factor"— The problem with relying on statistics, such as a missed field goal resulting in a rebound/dunk.
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Byung-Hyun Kim: A Man for All Homers— Barry Bonds wasn't just adding to his own legacy when he hit number 715.
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The NBA All-Hands (Raised) Team— Having some fun complaining about, well, complaining.
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MLB: April All-Stars— It's never to early to pick the award the game's best performers.
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How Kobe Can Win the NBA MVP— History may be about to repeat itself.
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NBA MVP Award: And The Winner Is ...— It is time for the new King of the NBA to be crowned.
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Tabbing the Right Kind of "Breakout" Star for AL MVP— Predicting the American League isn't easy, but the best place to start is to avoid flashy young "breakout" players.
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Survivor: Does Familiarity Breed Contempt?— As Survivor goes on and on (and on), is the familiar format turning "the game" into a snoozer?
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NBA Prospects: Who's Got Next?— Breaking down potential NBA lottery picks by playing the "comparison game".
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Atlanta Hawks Set to Soar— See how the Atlanta Hawks are creeping ever closer toward respectability.
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March Madness: Sweet 16 Games Lost in The Shuffle— How the University of Washington got the shaft in the NCAA tourney and then were erased from our memories forever.
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Top Seeds Look to Make This the Craziest March Yet— Never before have all the 1 seeds reached the Final Four. Are we headed for a tourney first?
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Why Harry Potter and Jack Bauer Are More Similar Than You Think— Don't believe that the boy wizard and the one-man terrorism fighting machine are eerily similar? Read on.
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March Madness: Major Achievement for Missouri Valley Conference— The Missouri Valley Conference performed even better than you think during the NCAA Tournament's opening weekend.
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