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Chaplin and Keaton Box
There’s no shortage of good boxing movies but what about laughs? Welp, dig these two funny boxing scenes from the masters: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. ...
Bull Riding Is Love
From one of my favorite magazine writers, Jeanne Marie Laskas, here's her 1999 Esquire story, "America is Bull":...
Just Writing My Name And Graffiti On The Wall
Norman Mailer's 1974 Esquire story, "The Faith of Graffiti," brought to you by test pressing. ...
Got Beef? Cassavetes Mixes It Up At A Lakers Game
Via cupofcoldsick, dig Peter Falk's story about John Cassavetes at a Lakers game:...
"I've Got A Book To Write"
Mike Lupica remembers his friend Elmore Leonard:...
Elmore Leonard's Rules For Writing
The great American writer Elmore Leonard died this morning. He was 87....
The Main Ingredient
Okay, so not an ingredient but a recipe and a sure shot one at that. A rich and silky corn soup without cream or anything fattening. Easy to make. Just takes is a little patience to strain the soup at the end....
The Cruelest Sport
If you don't already follow Longform I recommend it as a great place to find choice material. (Bookmark it already.)...
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The Greatest Yankees Meltdown Ever Captured On Tape [NSFW]
Here's a cool old relic from the last great era of Yankees dysfunction. It's a clip of Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage losing his shit in front of the New York media in 1982—the beginning of a miserable, drawn-out decade for the organization, when all that '70s glory turned to pinstriped shit....
Struzan: The Man Behind The Poster
This looks like a dope movie. Check out this cool post by Nick Schager over at Esquire.com on Drew Struzan:...
This Steeler Really Is A Cowboy
As football season approaches here's a good one from the SI Vault:...
Tough Guys Don't Dance
"To me," Lenny Bruce once said, "a tough guy is a guy who wears a wool suit with no underwear." In his latest profile for the Times Magazine, Pat Jordan writes about Peter Berg and Hollywood tough:...
Buffalo Gals And Other Old School Rap Records
I contributed a short essay on "Buffalo Gals" to Herc Your Enthusiam, HiLoBrow's series on old school (pre-1983) rap records:...
Love, Boxing and Hunter S. Thompson
Check out this long 2012 essay on Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson by John Kaye over at the Los Angeles Review of Books:...
Halberstam Takes Down Patrick Ewing
David Halberstam was not a sports writer but he wrote about sports often. He was rarely vicious which makes this Page 2 column on Patrick Ewing stand out:...
Bill Cosby Talks Money, Success, Racism, Guns And Revolution
First rock albums I ever bought were Let it Bleed and Are You Experienced?. I was in the fifth grade. My mom took me to Caldors I bought them on cassette. She dug rock n roll but wasn't an avid record buyer. She had albums by Simon and Garfunkel and Judy Collins and her favorite, Jacques Brel, but i...
The Elements of Style: "I Never Liked Fighting"
My father wasn’t a boxing fan but talked about Sugar Ray Robinson with admiration. Robinson was a brutal and efficient fighter, I was told, “pound-for-pound, the greatest boxer of all-time."...
