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You Must Be 18 To Play
I found this at a thrift store in South Carolina. How could I pass it up? (And yeah, the photo is blurry which only adds to its appeal.)...
America's Game
Baseball Card Vandals is killin' it for the start of the NFL season. ...
Down, Set...Hike
Looking through some old papers this weekend I found these two drawings I did when I was a teenager. Copied from Sports Illustrated. Not sure the year but must have been 1984-85. ...
I'll Tumblr Fuh Ya
Mark Peter Drolet's tumblr site is remarkable. ...
Just Put Your Lips Together And Blow
Our man Eric Nusbaum has a fun piece on the Lucha Libre star wrestler Maximo over at ESPN:...
Inside The Monster
Via the ever-essential site, Kottke, comes this:...
The Main Ingredient
Check out this piece about the importance of authenticity by Sara Jenkins in the Atlantic:...
The Shame Game: Taylor Branch Takes On The NCAA
In case you missed it, check out Taylor Branch’s 2011 story about the same of college sports over at The Atlantic:...
Bruce Weber's Broken Noses
Before Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber made Broken Noses. ...
King Sun's Memorable Tupac Diss Record
I first heard this King Sun diss record late one Thursday night—or was it Friday morning?—on the Stretch and Bob KCR show. This was in the spring of 1996. It's my favorite of the East Coast-West Coast diss records that came out around that time. Man, I remember walking into Fat Beats the day Tupac d...
Gone Fishin' With Deion Sanders
Another good one for ya—Charlie Pierce's 2000 Esquire profile of Deion Sanders:...
Payback Is A Bitch
Friend of mine in London sent me the following. Taken from Maiden Speech by Eleanor Brown, published by Bloodaxe in 1996:...
The Marx Brothers Play Football
From the Marx Brother's fourth feature, Horse Feathers (1932)....
Ed And Steve Sabol: The NFL Dream Machine
Today gives the start of the NFL season. What better place to start than Rich Cohen's excellent portrait of Ed and Steve Sabol? The league as we know it is hard to imagine without them. Published last October in the Atlantic, here's "They Taught America How to Watch Football":...
Jack Nicholson Is Retiring From Acting (Or He Is?)
Reportedly, that is. Black Book has the details. E! has a response....
John O'Hara Told The Truth About His Time
My father didn't care much for Fitzgerald or Hemingway or Faulkner. He loved Steinbeck. But the writer he told me to read was John O'Hara. I still have the copy of O'Hara's short stories that Dad gave me when I was in high school. ...
Why Football Is So Important In Alabama
I was in South Carolina last weekend, college football country. Clemson vs. Georgia was all anyone cared about unless you counted the local high school game and they cared even more about that. I went to a general store and found these vintage Bear Bryant bottles of Coke on the shelf. They sold frie...
Robert Towne's Memories Of Sports In L.A.
We know Robert Towne as a great screenwriter—Shampoo, Chinatown, The Last Detail, Personal Best, Tequila Sunrise (never mind the script doctor work he's done, most famously on Bonnie and Clyde and The Godfather). But here's something for ya, a bonus piece he did for Sports Illustrated back in 1984:...