Andrew Gruttadaro

Nov 21, 2024 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Netflix/Ringer illustration It happens about once a year. The wind shifts, the salt wafts off the sea and through the air, the sun settles at a point in the sky so that it’s always a perfect shade of yellow-orange outside. And that’s how you know that Outer Banks has returned. With all due respect to Ripley, Squid Game, and every bonkers show Ryan Murphy has ever created, this is the greatest thing that has ever aired on Netflix.

Oct 9, 2024 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Fans of the Buffalo Sabres have long awaited this moment. For over a decade—through multiple tanks, rebuilds, and disappointments, through that one COVID season where they were one of just six teams that didn’t make the expanded playoffs—they have waited for something they can believe in. Something they can look up to. Something that makes them feel like everything will be OK.

Apr 19, 2024 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Getty Images/Ringer illustration It’s probably unfair to nitpick a couple of lines from a collection of 31 songs. I’ll admit that. Taylor Swift’s new double album, The Tortured Poets Department, is more than two hours long, and in that time she says a lot of words—10,663, to be exact.

Jan 17, 2024 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

Getty Images/AP Images/Ringer illustration Orchard Park, New York, is a strange place. First of all, not a ton of orchards there, in my experience. Far more Tim Hortonses. But more specifically, Orchard Park is an unassuming bit of flat land located 12 miles away from downtown Buffalo. Founded in 1803 by a man named Didymusand his wife, Phebe, it sits just off of Lake Erie, in the heart of a snow band that consistently pummels the area while other nearby towns remain dry.

Aug 11, 2023 | theringer.com | Andrew Gruttadaro

The Jerks Bracket final can be summed up in one image: Happy Gilmore Productions That’s Shooter McGavin running off with a title that Cartman seemed to have in the bag. And this time, no one’s going to beat the ever-living hell out of Shooter—because this time, he actually won. Ladies and gentlemen, meet your champion jerk. Happy Gilmore Productions It was an astounding final between two jerks who really separated themselves from the pack over the week.