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North Hollywood Forty
I WAS sitting at the window of a ninth-floor room in the Stoneleigh Hotel the week before Hollywood Henderson's wedding, facing approximately north, reckoning by the Dallas Cowboys tower out on North Central Expressway. The clouds had closed back in after burning off for a while earlier in the day. ...
Braised Boneless Short Ribs And A Chat With L'Artusi's Erin Shambura
A few years ago my wife and I were introduced to L'Artusi, an Italian place down on West 10th street in the Village. We rarely have the chance to dine out, but we've been back to L'Artusi a dozen times since that introduction. We feel welcome there—it's a place that makes us happy. The environment ...
Sports Talk Radio: Art Rust Jr.
When I was a kid in the early 1980s, before WFAN, I listened to Art Rust Jr. talk sports on WABC radio. One day, must have been in 1981 or '82, I was home sick and I got to stay in my parents bed that afternoon. Nobody else was home. I listened to Art and was desperate to ask him a question, the mos...
The Joys Of Being A Sportswriter: Pass The Mustard
Six years ago, I had dinner with the late Vic Ziegel at Liebmann's Deli in the Bronx. We'd been introduced through a mutual friend and I wanted to chat with him about his career and the history of sports writing. He was funny in a skeptical, weathered, manner you'd expect from a career newspaperman....
Seven Scenes From The Life Of A Quiet Champ
Dig Pete Dexter's 1980 Inside Sports profile of Larry Holmes:...
John Ed Bradley Remembers Peyton Manning As A Young Man
My man John Ed Bradley recalls meeting Peyton Manning in this sweet essay for Sports Illustrated:Sports Illustrated:...
Exploitation Was Duke Ellington's True Genius
Last month, Adam Gopnik wrote an absorbing review of Terry Teachout's new Duke Ellington biography in the New Yorker. It's only available to subscribers but I wanted to share this part:...
The Sordid End of David Meggett
Here's the latest from my pal Greg Hanlon. This one's over at SB Nation Longform and it's a tough story: The Sordid End of David Meggett: ...
Two Tough Mothers
Here's Charlie Pierce's 1991 Sports Illustrated story on Bettie Taylor and Bonnie Lindros:...
Joey Goldstein Was A New York City Legend
"I am not a hustler. I am a practitioner who enlightens the American populace and brings joy to the world." Joey Goldstein....
Shane, Come Back: The No-Stats All-Star
From Michael Lewis' 2009 New York Times Magazine profile of Shane Battier:...
Alex Haley's Seminal Interview with MLK
In 1964, after he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat down for a series of interviews with the author Alex Haley that were edited into one interview that ran in Playboy in 1965—the longest interview King ever gave any publication. In January 1965, Playboy published Alex Hal...
An Oral History of Kurtis Blows' "Basketball"
Dumb fun from SB Nation. ...
Nashville
Here's a long, thoughtful, and engaging essay about "Nashville" by Ray Sawhill (Salon, June 27, 2000):...
Big Trouble With A Capital "T"
"The Gulf Stream," By Winslow Homer (1899)...