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There's No Place Like Home
From a recent Jamie Jackson article in the Guardian:...
Aaron Dana's Sports Illustrated
It's a Long Season is a killer tumblr site for you baseball junkies. This morning I saw a post featuring Aaron Dana's work. ...
The Main Ingredient: Mom's Orange Tree
In 1974, when I was three years old, my grandparents returned from a trip to Florida with a gift for my mother and my aunt. They carried it in a box, a few small branches of an orange tree. My aunt planted hers and it died almost immediately but Mom, who has a way with plants and flowers, potted the...
Broadway Danny Rose: It's A Beautiful Thing
We're getting into a definite type of situation here......
Funny As Fuck: Buddy Hackett
Because...well, you need a because for Buddy?...
Tom Seaver And Pat Jordan: The Sunshine Boys
Over at Sports on Earth Pat Jordan has a nice long story about his recent trip to California to visit his old chum Tom Seaver:...
The House of Beretta
In the rooms where the engravers work their drawings into the steel of a shotgun's receiver, the meditative strike of their hammers on the heads of their chisels makes a tick-tick-tick-Tick-TICK that you might first think was coming from a woodpecker's drilling on a tree. The tones are woodsy, with ...
Peter Sellers in Lolita > Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove
Claire Quilty: I get the impression that you want to leave but you don't like to because you think I think it looks suspicious, me being a policeman and all. You don't have to think that because I haven't got a suspicious mind at all. A lot of people think I'm suspicious, especially when I stand on...
Trying To Be The Best
"Bill Heinz is a walking contradiction of the stereotype of the phlegmatic Teuton. He is emotional and demonstrative. He can sink into depressions so deep they would give a sandhog the bends. His highs are several stories high. As cityside reporter, war correspondent, sports columnist, freelance jou...
Classic College Football Programs With Character
So in case you don't know from A Continuous Lean do yourself a favor and check it out. It's a consistently smart, stylish, and elegant place. ...
The Time Junior Barnes Hit Bill Cosby In The Side Of The Face With A Slushball
It's snowing here in New York. Nothing's sticking yet but it made me think of this famous Cosby routine....
Woody: All Schoolyard
I was always interested in gangsters and people don't associate me with that because of their image of me on the screen. They think I'm more intellectual than I am, because I wear glasses and I'm built slightly.But the truth is I came from the streets of Brooklyn. I'm not educated—I mean I was throw...
All Together Now
Is sports writing dead? Sure, just like rock n roll and rap and every other thing worth caring about. Check out this collection of sports writing is dead articles through the years. ...
Kid Bids Boogie Down Adieu
Here's a thoughtful take on Robinson Cano's decision to leave Gotham from my man William Juliano over at The Banter. ...
The Main Ingredient: Cinnamon Toast
I was in elementary school during the final sad years of my parents' marriage. We had moved out of New York City to Westchester and lived on a street that was more country than suburban. I had a friend named Kevin who lived up the road in a big, dilapidated house. He kept a water-logged copy of Hust...
Who Said Girls Can't Jump?
Check out this winning piece by Mireille Silcoff for the New York Times Magazine:...