The Couch (2025)

14/09/2025

Tonight! It's television's biggest night, as the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards (8:00 ET, CBS) celebrate the biggest and best from TV Land. Join us as we share our predictions and thoughts on tonight's biggest races!

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Tonight, the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards take place! We at The Couch will be watching as invested-- and at least somewhat informed --viewers, start to finish. The Emmys occupy a weird place in the calendar. Late December all the way through March is awards season for most television and certainly mov...

13/09/2025

Premier League action is back! Can the North London clubs get back on track? Is Liverpool on upset watch? IS this the worst Manchester Derby ever?!?!? All these questions (and more!) answered in Daniel Woodiwiss's latest Premier League Predictions:

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© Micah Veldkamp, 2025Welcome back to the weekly predictions, Premier League fans! We've finally made it through the dark valley of international break, and are back to Premier League action this weekend. I know I'm not the only one that feels that the first international break of the season hits t...

12/09/2025

The Couch Power 10 is back for Week 2! Amidst a handful of big upsets, USF shined brightest in their thrilling takedown of Florida. Are the 2-0 Bulls good enough to crash this week's Power 10? The answer may surprise you:

(Spoiler: the answer is yes. Read on anyhow.)

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With the veritable feast of big-time games, major-program showdowns, ranked heavyweight clashes that we got to enjoy in Week 1, it was almost inevitable we were going to have a big comedown in Week 2. Sure enough, just a few days after many a bold proclamation was made regarding what opening week ta...

06/09/2025

College football is back, and so is the Couch Power 10!! Defending champs Ohio State kicked off a monster Week 1 with a suffocating win over preseason #1 Texas. Was that enough to put the Buckeyes themselves #1 in our inaugural Power 10 of 2025? Read on to find out!

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What's that? College football is back? Yes, it's true. You might have missed it amidst the return of club soccer, the return of the school year, the return of your standard television programming, and well, a fascist s*x criminal using his unfettered power to destroy everything around us. There's a....

30/08/2025

A title clash in August?? Can Manchester City bounce back? Will Aston Villa score this season?!?! All these questions (and more!) answered in Daniel Woodiwiss's latest Premier League Predictions:

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© Micah Veldkamp, 2025Welcome back to the weekly predictions, Premier League fans! Another week come and gone, another weekend imminent, and before we go off to the dreaded first international break, we close out August with Week 3 of Premier League action!Last week, in my inaugural selection slate...

28/08/2025

Daniel Woodiwiss continues his journey through Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time! Numbers 320-311 is largely an indie rock-head's dream, flanked by the one-time biggest rising star of the 90s as well as one of the biggest rising stars in the 2020s:

Back in September of 2020, Rolling Stone did something rather audacious and released out to the world a ranking of, in their estimation, the Top 500 albums ever made. By any musician, any band, anywhere. It's a mammoth undertaking, of course, and one that is never going to be without controversy, di...

27/08/2025

This is what the AI-generated suggested prompt for this post was: "What if hatred could bring us together? Explore Tanner Riley's thoughts on embracing the darker side of human emotion and the community it can create. Dive into the conversation about love, hate, and everything in between."

That's really beautiful. But as Tanner himself will tell you, this is actually mostly just about the profound joy of hating on your sports rivals. Celebrate Week 1 of college football with this cathartic read!

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(With apologies to Joy Division...)My name is Tanner Riley, and I am a bona fide, pure-bred hater. It’s true. I have hatred in my heart and I genuinely believe you should let hatred into yours as well. In these trying times where we are so divided and so polarized, I know I should write an article...

23/08/2025

The Premier League is back -- are Manchester City back as well? Can Arsenal finally break through? Will Liverpool make it out of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in one piece?!?!?!

All these questions (and more!) answered in Daniel Woodiwiss's latest Premier League Predictions:

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© Micah Veldkamp, 2025Welcome back to the weekly predictions, Premier League fans! It's always hard to believe yet another season is underway each time a new one kicks off, and this one felt particularly hard to believe, as it seems like just a fortnight ago that I was drinking in the scenes of a c...

15/08/2025

The Premier League is back, baby!! Celebrate kickoff day with Daniel Woodiwiss's annual preseason humiliation ritual: confidently making bold assertions that are destined to embarrass him in 9 months' time.

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Well folks, we've made it. It's scarcely believable, but the long summer wait is over, and our beloved Premier League is already back! With a summer of international women's football and the faux-important men's Club World Cup now fully in the rear-view, attention can turn to the most elite domestic...

10/08/2025

The Couch Blog turns 9 (NINE!) years old today! Don't worry, it's scarcely believable to us as well. Celebrate our birthday with a scroll through our 10 most popular posts from the last year:

Hello loyal readers! It was nine years ago today that we launched The Couch, with goals of being: a chance for friends to participate in collaborative creativity, a great outlet for input from your peers regarding sports and pop culture, and becoming so expertly crafted and well-renowned that we cat...

05/08/2025

We had music, now it's time for the movies! Halfway through the 2020s, we've already had a slew of films that have rejuvenated the box office and laid claim to being a modern-day classic. Read Daniel Woodiwiss's 20 Best of the 2020s here:

Here are words that feel truly surreal to say: we're officially halfway through the decade. A little over halfway at this point, given that we're a couple weeks into July. We're as close to the year 2030 as we are far away from COVID-19 reaching American shores yet. Time warp, right?Anyhow, in recog...

02/08/2025

Believe it or not, we've passed the halfway point of the 2020s! This half-decade has already been rich with amazing new music from some new faces and the biggest names on the scene alike. Read Daniel Woodiwiss's 20 Best of the 2020s here:

Here are words that feel truly surreal to say: we're officially halfway through the decade. A little over halfway at this point, given that we're a couple weeks into July. We're as close to the year 2030 as we are far away from COVID-19 reaching American shores yet. Time warp, right?Anyhow, in recog...

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