Jerry Thornton

3 days ago | barstoolsports.com | Jerry Thornton

You don't have to have lived through the Golden Age of American pop culture that was the 1980s to appreciate how significant it was. A magical time in which the entertainment industry dedicated itself to the noble pursuit of actually entertaining their paying customers. A novel approach in these dark times; but then it was common. And it created a Renaissance the likes of which the world has not seen since.

4 days ago | barstoolsports.com | Jerry Thornton

Nothing has marked the last five seasons of football in New England more than region-wide case of moderate-to-severe Quarterback Envy.

5 days ago | barstoolsports.com | Jerry Thornton

Daniel Bartel. Getty Images. There's a massive, Marianas Trench-sized gap between the good pro athletes and the truly great. But the distance between the greats and the elites is even wider. By comparison, that gap could measured in Astronomical Units. It requires more than mere talent to be among the best of the best. The Old Busts Home is filled with athletes who were touched by the gods with physical ability, but lacked the mental capacity to maximize their gifts and are lost to history forever.

5 days ago | barstoolsports.com | Jerry Thornton

Boston Globe. Getty Images. If the two Commonwealth v. Karen Read trials were dramas - and I've been contending all along they were - they shared one common plot thread that ended up going nowhere. Like you remember all those story lines in LOST we never got explanations for? The magic numbers that kept cropping up. Mysterious Egyptian hieroglyphs all over the place. Characters with powers that were never explained.

1 week ago | barstoolsports.com | Jerry Thornton

Anthony Harvey. Shutterstock Images. I'll confess that to the extent I do ever invest the mental energy needed to think about a celebrity couple, Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry hardly take up any of it. In fact, I tend to forget they even exist and an entity. He's one of the central characters of my all time favorite film series, Lord of the Rings. Plus he did Pirates of the Caribbean and Troy.