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Birds Are Good
It has come to my attention that some people do not like all birds. This or that bird is not good, they are saying or thinking or blogging nearly two years ago. But actually, whatever bird they are talking about is good. Birds are good....
The First Four-Minute Mile, In One Pain-Wracked Photo
Sir Roger Bannister died over the weekend at the age of 88 and, as to be expected, the glowing obituaries focused on his epochal mile of May 6, 1954, when he shattered the four-minute barrier on Oxford University’s Iffley Road track....
The World Took So Much From Me, But Baseball Gave It Back
Originally featured in the anthology Birth of a Fan (Ed. Ron Fimrite), 1993, this essay appears here with permission....
Serena Williams's Comeback Starts Now, Ready Or Not
On Thursday at Indian Wells, Serena Williams will play her first tour event in more than a year. Is she ready? Yesterday in an interview with the BBC, Williams heaved a sigh and answered:...
Kobe Bryant Now Has As Many Oscars As He Does NBA MVP Awards
Kobe Bryant and Glen Keane tonight won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film tonight in Los Angeles for Dear Basketball, based on the poem he wrote to announce his retirement from basketball in 2015. In his brief speech, he noted that while some expect basketball players to “shut up and dri...
The Kings Are Terrible, But De'Aaron Fox Is Great At Hitting Buzzer-Beaters
The Sacramento Kings are 19-43, and there’s not much at stake over the last 20 games of the season, save for lottery ping pong balls. That’s how this season was always going to turn out, and after moving George Hill to Cleveland, the Kings can thrust rookie point guard De’Aaron Fox all the way into ...
Report: NFL Teams Ask Heisman-Winning Quarterback To Give Wide Receiver A Try
The NFL combine has begun, which means it’s time for NFL coaches, GMs, scouts, writers, and draft prognosticators to make all sorts of ironclad evaluations about various incoming rookies that will eventually prove embarrassingly inaccurate. We’re off to a good start so far, according to this report ...
Virginia Finishes Utterly Insane Final Second With Buzzer-Beating Three For Win Over Louisville
Down by four points with less than one second remaining, Virginia needed a wild finish to pull off a win against Louisville. They got it. ...
Gymnast Jacob Moore Becomes First Male Victim To File In Larry Nassar Lawsuit
Gymnast Jacob Moore is the first male victim to join the lawsuits against Dr. Larry Nassar, Michigan State and USA Gymnastics....
Mauricio Pochettino Says Video Replay Threatens To "Kill The Emotion" Of Soccer
Yesterday’s Tottenham-Rochdale match had all the ingredients for great game. It had stakes, as an F.A. Cup knockout match; it had narrative, since it pit a Goliath of a club against a lower league David; it had drama, after it went into halftime tied at one goal apiece as Rochdale fought valiantly t...
Nick Young's Irrational Confidence Almost, Kinda, Sorta Works
Nick Young did not come close to making this shot. Not remotely. But he played it off as if he did, and sometimes that’s all you need. Announcer Bob Fitzgerald fell for it, hard. ...
Scott Blackmun Resigns As Head Of USOC Amid Larry Nassar Fallout
A month after ordering the entire USA Gymnastics board to resign in the wake of the Larry Nassar sex abuse case, U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun has also resigned....
From John Shuster's Persistence To Rachel Homan's Disappointment, Every Olympic Curler Is On A Journey
Last November, my team played in a World Curling Tour event. Our team couldn’t be considered “competitive”—we play about one such event a year, whereas the good ones are looking at about a dozen weeks a year. We know what we’re doing; we’re just out of shape. Still, we finished 0-3 in our pool and o...
The Most Controversial Part Of Obama's Off-The-Record Sloan Speech Was Just A Light Criticism Of The NCAA
The off-the-record talk that Barack Obama gave at MIT’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last Friday didn’t stay under wraps for long. The folks at Reason obtained a recording of the former president’s hour-long speech and published it today, and—surprise—it doesn’t have anything too different from...
Larry Eustachy Resigns From Colorado State
Larry Eustachy has resigned as head coach of men’s basketball at Colorado State, two weeks after he was placed on a paid leave of absence while the university investigated him for violating a zero-tolerance policy of abusive behavior toward players....
Steven Adams On Autobiography He Wrote: "I Can Barely Read, Mate"
Steven Adams has an autobiography coming out this year with author Madeleine Chapman. The Oklahoma City Thunder center talked about it today when prompted, and it’s clear that he worked very hard on it....
Blake Bortles Gets One More Year To Prove He Doesn't Totally Suck<em></em>
Why on earth would the Jaguars sign the quarterback who has spent much of his four-year career doing shit like this—...
Adding A Skateboard To Pole Vault Makes It Even Better<em></em>
French vaulter Baptiste Boirie gave us the highlight of the All-Star Perche pole vaulting competition this weekend, and he did it with a skateboard. He jumped 5.9 meters while using some help on his approach....
Maybe Just Get Zaza Pachulia The Fuck Out Of Here
Here are some fun clips. For all intents and purposes, they might as well be the highlights of Zaza Pachulia’s 14-year NBA career....