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We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries. More »
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Your morning roundup for Jan. 2, the day we learned you're not that tall. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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Today, as they tend to do, the LIFE photography archives released a beautiful selection of never-before-seen photographs. The new collection, released 60 years to the day after Willie Mays' major league debut on May 25, 1951, is of the Hall of Famer's earlier years as a professional baseball player. There are many more photos (by Loomis Dean, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and Ralph Morse) over at the LIFE website; this one, of Mays pelting Monte Irvin with a pillow in their hotel room, is an obvious favorite. "I've got a couple of kids, 6 and 10 years old," Irvin said to LIFE in 1954, "but when I take a road trip I've got another one on my hands. That Willie is 23 years old and he'll drink maybe seven big sodas and a dozen Cokes in 12 hours." More »
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There's a new Asian monster stomping through the Japanese leagues and he is the tallest human being ever to play basketball. At 7'9", Sun MingMing is three inches taller than Yao Ming. (No relation.) More »
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