Chris Pontius

Soccer News of the Week USWNT Back in Action at Summer Olympics Even though the United States U23 men crapped out during qualification, our awesome soccer ladies kick off their run for gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics with a match against France on...

Ryan Dunn: MTV will air a one-hour tribute to the 'Jackass' star featuring interviews with his friends and co-stars Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera....

Van Toffler, president of Viacom's Music Group, said in a statement: "Weaving together footage of Ryan for this special reminds us all of what a special friend he was to so many. He is sorely missed by his MTV family and fans, but his mischievous,...

It took 10 years for the Jackass saga to make the jump to 3D, and boy was it worth it. In the third installment of “Jackass the Movie,” Johnny Knoxville and friends give crotch shots and punches to the face all in 3D.  The movie follows the...

Ryan Dunn died of blunt force trauma and thermal trauma, according to a coroner's report out Tuesday. "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn crashed with passenger Zachary Hartwell early Monday in Pennsylvania after his car went off the road, possibly at 130 mph....

It was part family night, part boys' night out on the "Jackass 3-D" premiere red carpet outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Wednesday night, with newlywed star Johnny Knoxville bringing along wife Naomi Nelson and his 14-year-old daughter,...

Thanks to the song’s use in the opening credits of “Jackass,� the jangly four-note guitar intro to the Minutemen’s 1984 “Corona� has become inextricably linked in the public imagination with joke stunts, toilet humor and dangerous tomfoolery....

After conquering the Venice International Film Festival with her latest offering, "Somewhere," Sofia Coppola's stateside opening was as cool and casual as the director herself. Coppola brought her movie "home to Hollywood," as Focus Features Chief Exec...

At one point in her quiet and downright languorous Hymn to Hollywood, “Somewhere,” Sofia Coppola points her static camera at her star, Stephen Dorff, as his head is encased in goo. He's a movie star who needs to have a head-cast made for...

The "Jackass Number Two: Unrated" DVD proudly proclaims that this is "the movie with all the stuff we couldn't show in theaters," and that's not necessarily a good thing, even if you are a fan. The additional footage isn't really that much raunchier or...

Between the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...

The ascendancy of Johnny Knoxville and the rest of MTV's "Jackass" gang to the big screen shouldn't come as all that surprising, especially given the original show's popularity and the synergistic ethos of the cable network's parent company, Paramount,...