Category: Lists, Tiers and Rankings

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    Alien (franchise) Power Rankings

    If Star Wars and Star Trek are credited with popularizing sci-fi, space and space exploration, then Alien and the following films should be credited with bringing space-horror into popular culture. While Star Wars and Star Trek have some horror elements they don’t lean into the dark, bloody, disgusting and body-horror elements like the Alien franchise […]

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    Team USA Final Power Rankings

    Mission accomplished! Team USA went undefeated and won their 5th consecutive gold medal. Most of the games were a walk in the park, due to the United States’ superior talent advantage. Other than the semifinals matchup against Serbia, which was one of the greatest Olympic basketball games ever played. Watching this group of players come […]

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    Team USA Power Rankings Re-Rank

    Team USA dominated group C, as expected, winning all 3 of their games; 110-83 vs. Serbia, 103-86 vs. South Sudan and 104-83 vs. Puerto Rico. Germany and Canada also went undefeated topping their respective groups but, due to point differential, the US lands the top overall seed in the knockout stage and will face Brazil […]

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    Team USA Power Rankings

    Since 2000, the United States of America has won Olympic gold 5 out of 6 times, with the lone exception coming in 2004 when Team USA lost to, eventually gold medalist, Argentina in the semifinals. Suffice to say they are once again the prohibitive favorites going into the Paris Olympics. Even after an uneven showing […]