Locker Page 1009 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Death Of A Racehorse
Here's W.C. Heinz's celebrated 1949 column, "Death of a Racehorse." ...
I Could Not Help But Cry
[Image Via Cooley Art Gallery]...
Deadspin Up All Night: You Can't Depend
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Greg will be with you momentarily....
A Young Karl Malone Once Fell For A Great Frank Layden Prank
The Salt Lake Tribune caught up with Karl Malone, who turns 50 tomorrow, a fact that ought to make any kid who followed basketball closely in the '80s and '90s feel really old. Malone tells the newspaper the story of his first visit to Utah in 1985, a little more than a month after the Jazz drafted ...
J.J. Redick And His Ex-Girlfriend Had An Abortion Contract
The muckrakers at MediaTakeOut have done it again, this time uncovering a very odd legal document that was drawn up in 2007 by lawyers representing NBA player J.J. Redick and his then-pregnant ex-girlfriend, model Vanessa Lopez. The document is essentially a contract that seems to be the result of R...
Dick Young's America ... The Reactionary Who Changed Sportswriting ...
Originally published in the Aug. 1, 1985, issue of Sport magazine. Reprinted here with permission of the author's widow, Laura Ross....
Plucked Her Eyebrows On The Way
Found this Guardian reprint of an old Lester Bangs column on Lou Reed over at Longform last week. ...
Report: Greg Oden To Decide Between Heat And Spurs
It's not often that a 25-year-old seven-footer with world-beating potential comes on the market, and it's even rarer for the two suitors in the mix to both be defending conference champions. But that's exactly the situation with Greg Oden, who will work out for teams this week, and according to one ...
The Art of Storytelling: John Hersey's Writing Seminar
Our man Peter Richmond wrote a wonderful piece over at the Nieman storyboard about John Hersey's senior-year writing seminar at Yale. ...
Here's The Thing
Alec Baldwin talks to Doc Gooden about addiction and Gooden's playing career:...
Can I Flip It?
Allen Barra once gave me a set of Major League Writers trading cards. ...
Deadspin Up All Night: I Had A Dream
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Baseball tonight. Sean's around....
The Cast Of <em>The Sandlot</em> Had A Reunion
You want to feel old? Like, really freaking old? This photo should do. Top row, left to right: that's Yeah-Yeah, Ham, Squints, and Timmy Timmons....
Sidney, Relax, Have a Cream Soda
Rest in Peace, Dennis Farina....
The Talented Mr. Tynan
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."...
A Sad Pile Of Discounted Dwight Howard Laker Jerseys
Reader Bryan was at the Team LA store at the Staples Center yesterday, and reports that Dwight Howard authentics are going for $20 apiece. They're very prominently displayed....
To Steal A Mockingbird?
Ugliness in the literary world. This one involves Harper Lee. Mark Seal has the sordid details in a story for Vanity Fair:...
It's Something More
Chris Jones delivers a good one for ESPN the Magazine:...