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Deadspin Up All Night: Campaign Shoutin' Like A Southern Diplomat
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All The NFL TV Themes, On Piano
All the classics: Fox, NBC, CBS, and ESPN. Turns out you like sonatas, huh?...

Report: NFL Agents Funneled Money To College Players
A big Yahoo report dropped today, presumably to ride/torpedo the momentum of SI's flawed Oklahoma State exposé. It claims that NFL agents and financial advisers funneled tens of thousands of dollars to five college players, including Alabama tackle D.J. Fluker....

Horrible People Beat Up A Dog For Wearing The Wrong Soccer Jersey
No, yeah, this is a totally reasonable thing to do. Of course it's the Old Firm....

Great Men Die Twice: Muhammad Ali In Decline
Originally published in the June 1989 issue of Esquire. Republished here with the permission of the late author's son, Mark Kram Jr., a wonderful storyteller in his own right. His postscript follows. For a contemporary, but very different, glimpse of Ali, check out Davis Miller's story about his day...

How Do I Eat Less Meat?
Welcome to the Feedbag, where all the dumb questions about food, drink, cooking, eating, and accidental finger removal you've been embarrassed to ask can finally receive the berating they goddamn deserve. Also: answers. Send all your even-vaguely-food-related questions to [email protected] wit...

Guns Don't Kill Doves. Texans Kill Doves
In states from Maine to Texas, Oregon to Florida, the end of summer and the beginning of autumn heralds that time of year when family and friends get together for some quality shooting. This is how it's been for generations, and the likelihood of it changing anytime soon is effectively nil....

Pride Of The City
Over at SB Nation Longform, Joe DePaolo has a strong piece on the annual baseball game between the NYPD and NYFD:...

Elaine de Kooning: Baseball Fan
Baseball Players by Elaine de Kooning. Ink Wash on Paper (1956)....

She's Leaving Home
Mournful cover by Syreeta Wright, Stevie Wonder's ex-wife and collaborator. ...

Memories Of Terror
I lived in Brooklyn from the fall of '95 to the summer of 2000 and was in my Bronx apartment on the morning of September 11, 2001. But I still had a lot of friends in Brooklyn like my pal who was in his Carroll Gardens apartment. When the second plane hit he walked to his roof to see what was happen...

Deadspin Up All Night: As We Know It
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Oklahoma State? Pffft. Here's What A Real Sports Scandal Looks Like
If you're a scandal-porn aficionado as I am, you are bound to be left wanting by Sports Illustrated's beyond-exhaustive expose of Oklahoma State football. It's a story that promises, in bold type, lots of shit that I like in a scandal: MONEY (follow the money!), DRUGS (I like drugs!), and SEX (the c...

Is It OK To Participate In A Threesome With Your Cousin?
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Long Jump to Glory
Dig Pat Jordan's 1975 Sports Illustrated profile of Willye White:...

Vanity Fair Turns 100
Slide on over to Vanity Fair and dig their 100th Anniversary site. ...

Cool Flix
Check out Chris Ozer's photographs for Jimmie Johnson racing. ...

Blindsided
Michael J. Mooney's a good one. I remember liking this GQ story he did a couple of years ago:...

The Most Important Part of <em>SI's</em> Oklahoma State Shamestravaganza
Beneath all of the handwringing and pearl clutching that is laced throughout Sports Illustrated's story on Oklahoma State's pay-for-play schemes is this, the final paragraph:...
