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The Wet Stuff
Over at Grantland, here's our pal Bryan Curtis on the men who built the great American waterpark:...
Yesterday's Hero
Let's take time out from the distressing state of modern football for this melancholy portrait of Bob Suffridge by the great Paul Hemphill:...
Once Upon A Time In American Film
I had a subscription to American Film magazine from say 1982-86 and was happy to see this over at the great Cinephilia and Beyond. ...
The Face Of Baseball
Well, this here's something nobody else thought of doing to honor Derek Jeter. The artist Kevin Champeny has built a sculpture/picture of Jeter out of 10,000+ hand cast 1/2" diameter baseballs. Ya heard? ...
Hustler's Handbook
Here's Pat Jordan's 1971 Sports Illustrated pool room story, "A Clutch of Odd Birds." It's the kind of piece you don't see much these days and worth a read. ...
The Man Without A Mask
The latest from William Finnegan is a beaut:...
Redneck Lust
Dig this appreciation of redneck men from Allison Glock: ...
Must Be In The Front Row...
…and "Down in font," and "He missed the tag." The lines from this ad were high comedy to this teenager and his friends when it came out. ...
The Life And Death OF Vaudeville
The Library of America's story of the week by the incomparable Fred Allen. ...
Charles Portis On Motel Life, Lower Reaches
Here's a beaut from Charles Portis, published in the Oxford American:...
A Conversation With Phillip Roth
Check out this 1974 interview from the Ontario Review with Joyce Carol Oates and Phillip Roth....
The Brutal Beauty Of Our National Game: Talking With John Schulian
Today marks the publication of the Library of America's latest sports anthology—-Football: Great Writing about the National Sport. It's edited by our old chum John Schulian....
What Robin Williams Left On The Stage For Us
Robin Williams is dead at the age of 63....
What Happened To The Art Of An Overhand Curveball?
That's the question Pat Jordan asks in his latest profile:...
The Funeral At Fenway
Our man Charlie Pierce is in fine form over at Grantland writing about the 2013 Red Sox:...
Machers And Rockers: Jews And The Blues
From Rich Cohen's winning book, The Record Men, here's an excerpt about Leonard Chess and Muddy Waters:...