Clyde E. Dawkins
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I'm a big sports fan, especially hockey, and I've been a fan of villainesses since I was eight! My favorite shows are The Simpsons and Family Guy, etc.
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My Thoughts on the NFL's International Games
The 2025 NFL schedule was released over a month ago on May 14, and I took a different approach in comparison to last year. Instead of writing about all of the important slots at once, I decided to divide them into categories. I began with what's described as the most important spot in the weekly schedule, the Sunday Night Football games, and then the focus turned to the Thursday Night Football spot that kicks off the week. For this story, I'll focus on the international games, and to do this properly, I have to give a bit of a history lesson.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Unbalanced
"Beyond the Gates" Week 17 Review
Beyond the Gates' sixteenth week was really explosive, so I'm not surprised that the soap's seventeenth week would be even more wild. A lot of crazy, wild, and nail-biting developments took place as the summer season began, and as I said, the show's getting hotter as the temperature does. Week 17 was absolutely nuts, and these highlights prove it.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Geeks
Finals Game Seven: The Power of Thunder
The last time the NBA Finals went the full seven games was in 2016. We all remember that year's Finals. The rematch from a year prior. The Golden State Warriors, then-defending champions and posting the greatest regular season in NBA history with 73 wins, against the Cleveland Cavaliers team who was defeated by the Warriors in 2015. The Warriors were up 3-1 after four games, one win away from repeating. However, the Cavs won Games Five and Six to force a deciding seventh game in the Bay Area. The game was close, it was tied very late, but Kyrie Irving's three gave Cleveland the lead, and LeBron's block clinched it for the Cavs.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Unbalanced
Villainess Review: Emily Turner (The Nanny Sees All)
2025, so far, has delivered with some delicious villainesses on Lifetime, similar to 2024's impressive crop. The wicked women of Lifetime have really been turning up the heat, making Death Valley look as cold as Lambeau Field in December and January. It's been a fun year for me, so far, as a Lifetime movie uber-fan and enthusiast, and part of this amazing excitement included this film, The Nanny Sees All.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Geeks
Finals Game Six: Not Over Yet
On this Juneteenth evening, a very important NBA game took place in Indianapolis. Game Six of the NBA Finals, with the main question of that game surrounding Tyrese Haliburton. Haliburton got banged up in Game Five, resulting in just a four-point performance, a far cry from the big games he'd been giving NBA fans during this run. It was announced that Haliburton would give it a go for this game. No worries; it's just the Indiana Pacers' season on the line.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Unbalanced
Stanley Cup Final Game Six: You Always Remember Your 2nd
On July 24, 2024, the Florida Panthers finally reached the mountaintop and became Stanley Cup Champions in Game Seven of that year's Final. Winning the Stanley Cup is intoxicating. It's a beautiful feeling. After eight months overall, and about 100 games of grueling hockey, a team finally reaches the pinnacle and wins the greatest trophy in sports. And just a week shy of a year later, the Panthers were looking to do it again. As for the Edmonton Oilers, they had their backs to the wall and were facing elimination for the first time all year. Their last visit to Sunrise was a victorious one, but they needed to do it again to bring the series back to Edmonton one more time.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Unbalanced
CFL Week 2 Recap: Party Poopers
Beautiful, isn't it? I had Saturday, June 14 circled on my mental calendar for one main reason: it was the Toronto Argonauts' home opener, meaning that our championship banner would be raised. The 111th Grey Cup last November was absolutely amazing! It was the Argos against the Blue Bombers again, but unlike the 109th Grey Cup, which the Argos narrowly won in a back and forth battle, last year was a beat down. The Bombers had no answer for the Argos on that evening, and as a result, the Argos were Grey Cup Champions for the league leading 19th time.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Unbalanced
Finals Game Five: One Win Away
Entering Saturday, both the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Final were 2-2; a very close and back and forth championship period. Of course, a 2-2 series turns the whole thing into a best-of-three affair, and Game Five is immensely important. That's where the home field (or home ice in hockey) comes in. Game Five sends the series back to where it started. In the case of this year's NBA Finals, it's back to Oklahoma City. The Thunder took Game Four in comeback fashion in Indianapolis to even this thing at two, and the home court is back in OKC's favor.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Unbalanced
"Beyond the Gates" Week 16 Review. Top Story - June 2025.
I know I sound like a broken record, but holy moley, this genre needed this show badly. Beyond the Gates is showing the world how soaps are properly done: without immensely overdone drama, without over the top acting, and with much, much needed representation. The other soaps really need to take notes. Beyond the Gates raised the bar. Everyone else is playing catch up, plain and simple.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Geeks
Stanley Cup Final Game Five: Rat Trap
For the first time in six years, the Stanley Cup Final is even at two games each, and has now become a best-of-three series. Of the 29 previous occurrences, the winner of Game Five went on to win the series 22 of those times. One of the seven teams who failed was the New Jersey Devils in 2001. The Devils won Game Five in Denver, but dropped the next two games to the Colorado Avalanche. The most recent failure was 2011, when the Vancouver Canucks shut out the Boston Bruins, but were blasted again in Beantown before getting shut out at home in Game Seven.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Unbalanced
Finals Game Four: Business Picks Up
There's something in the air in both the Stanley Cup Final and the NBA Finals this year. This is why I love the month of June. Not only is it the first month of summer, but it's the month of champions, as two of the main four leagues award their trophies during the sixth month of the year. Usually, one seems to outdo the other, and nearly every year, it's the Cup that does it. But there's something different about this year. While the Cup Final rematch has delivered big time, the NBA Finals has also been quite delicious.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Unbalanced
Villainess Review: Bobbie Burton (Diagnosis Murder)
I absolutely love Diagnosis Murder; the show is filled with amazing villainesses, some of whom I've already written about. In past years, reruns of the show aired on PAX-TV, but currently, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries has the reruns, as well as their streaming site, Hallmark+. I have a theory as to why the latter acquired the episodes: Dick Van Dyke. He's six months away from turning 100.
By Clyde E. Dawkins8 months ago in Geeks
