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SI has a nice profile this week of hockey's undisputed signature voice, Mike "Doc" Emrick. The story picked up some of the things that make Emrick a great play-by-player: his research, his enthusiasm, his longevity. More »
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We're not sure it matters, ultimately, whether or not Curt Schilling, as Gary Thorne famously (and obliviously) claimed last evening, actually painted blood on his sock in the 2004 World Series. We don't think he did, and his performance was rather amazing either way, but Schilling has always seemed like the type of guy who would do something like that. No one has ever seemed as interested in the myth of Curt Schilling than Curt Schilling himself, and that's meant as less of a criticism than it sounds. Baseball players love to be seen as heroes; Schilling is just more skilled and craven at propagating the myths than anybody else. More »
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