February 8, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry Like an amputee who can still feel his missing leg, I felt... More »
An Asian Harvard Grad Makes It In New York
February 7, 2012 – Over the past few days, one of New York's most storied sports franchises saw a player become a legend. Also Eli Manning won a football game. But in Madison Square Garden, all that mattered was Jeremy Lin—and his improbable journey from Harvard to the NBA's scrap heap to the Knicks' starting...
Seeing Jeremy Lin At The Garden Was The Best 11 Bucks I Ever Spent On Pro Sports
February 7, 2012 – Casey Chan turned to me yesterday and asked, "Are you going to the game tonight?" What? "The Knicks game. Lin's starting." What? "Yeah, StubHub's at like 11 bucks." We're going. More »
Childbirth Is A Precious Rite Of Passage, If You Enjoy Agony, Terror, And Flying Jets Of Blood
February 7, 2012 – When it comes to the Birthing Experience, I'd like to focus on the end, the summing up of everything, when the doctor in the delivery room turned to me and held up the gore-smeared, still-pulsing umbilical cord and asked if I would like to cut it. I'm afraid I looked at the doctor as if he had... More »
Math Says If Wes Welker Catches That Ball, The Patriots Win
February 7, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry | Next entry » We're all taught from a young age not to play... More »
Eli Manning Is All The Football Hero America Needs
February 6, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry | Next entry » For the second time in four years, Eli... More »
Before The Giants Ruined The Patriots’ Perfect Season, The Perfect Season Nearly Ruined Me
February 2, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry | Next entry » The replays began right after Lawrence Tynes's... More »
A Look Inside NBC’s Playbook For The Super Bowl Broadcast
February 2, 2012 – With 18 seconds left in the first half of Super Bowl 43 and the Cardinals on the doorstep, James Harrison picked off Kurt Warner and barreled 100 yards for a touchdown, dancing along the sideline as he went and narrowly breaking the plane of the end zone before Larry Fitzgerald dragged him down. More »
Here’s To The Lovable, Impish Bill Belichick
February 1, 2012 – There are two schools of thought on Bill Belichick. One is that he's a humorless football Jawa devoid of empathy or any animating purpose save destruction or creeping MILFs. More »
Homemade Infographic: What Were The Gayest (And Straightest) Super Bowl Halftime Shows?
(Deadspin.com ) January 30, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry | Next entry » Last week, one of Madonna's backup dancers... [Jezebel]
Homemade Infographic: What Were The Gayest (And Straightest) Super Bowl Halftime Shows?
(Deadspin.com ) January 30, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry | Next entry » Last week, one of Madonna's backup dancers... [Gawker]
The Gayest (And Straightest) Super Bowl Halftime Shows
January 30, 2012 – How shocking would it be if Madonna brought gay themes to the Super Bowl halftime show? Not very. Throughout its history, the halftime entertainment has meandered from straight to gay and back again. More »
Homemade Infographic: What Were The Gayest (And Straightest) Super Bowl Halftime Shows?
January 30, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry | Next entry » Last week, one of Madonna's backup dancers... More »
A Graphic Guide To Understanding USA Today’s Purchase Of The Big Lead
January 27, 2012 – The old new paradigm got a piece of a newer paradigm this week, as once-revolutionary USA Today acquired the Big Lead. What does this mean? Blog posts slipped under your hotel-room door?
A Plea To Joe Posnanski: Stop Writing Mealy-Mouthed Nonsense About Joe Paterno
January 25, 2012 – Sports Illustrated's Joe Posnanski is in a tough spot. He's a gifted writer and by all appearances a decent guy. His decency is his defining characteristic; More »
Which Will Prince Fielder And Miguel Cabrera Reach First: 600 Combined Homers Or 600 Combined Pounds?
January 24, 2012 – The balance of power in the American League shifted toward Detroit today with the Tigers' surprise signing of Prince Fielder. So did the center of mass. More »
What Went Wrong On Billy Cundiff’s Missed Kick?
January 22, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry | Next entry » From: Stefan Fatsis To: Josh Levin, Seth... More »
Did Lee Evans Catch A Game-Winning Touchdown For The Ravens?
January 22, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry | Next entry » From: Josh Levin To: Stefan Fatsis, Seth... More »
Are The Giants Really Better Than The 49ers?
January 20, 2012 – 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. « Previous entry | Next entry » From: More »
Homemade Infographic: Google Images Isn’t Excited About The Los Angeles Clippers Yet
January 20, 2012 – Have Chris Paul and Blake Griffin led Los Angeles's No. 2 NBA team into a new era of respect and recognition yet? Here's an analysis of results from a Google Images search for "Clippers": More »
