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Infographic: Which MLB Team Has The Most Expensive Beer, Per Ounce?
We've given plenty of grief to the Yankees for their misleading advertising, but new data from the Team Marketing Report—which tracks sports attendance costs for its annual fan index—show that Boston has the most expensive beer at $0.60 an ounce, followed by St. Louis, Toronto, and Washington. The A...
The Nation's Best Players Who Will Be Ignored By Heisman Voters
Each week, Football Outsiders recognizes the most outstanding college linemen, defenders and other darkhorses from the previous weekend who are habitually overlooked in the hype for that other award (you know, that one, whatever it's called). These are the Lowsmen....
HS Soccer Players Allegedly Raped Fellow Camper With Broomstick
On Monday, we told you about three Massachusetts high school soccer players who had been charged with sexual assault after an alleged incident at a team-building camp. At the time, the nature of the alleged assault wasn't known, but now Boston.com has the grisly details....
John O'Hara Told The Truth About His Time
My father didn't care much for Fitzgerald or Hemingway or Faulkner. He loved Steinbeck. But the writer he told me to read was John O'Hara. I still have the copy of O'Hara's short stories that Dad gave me when I was in high school. ...
Is Wladimir Balentien Having The Most Dominant Baseball Season Ever?
Wladimir Balentien, the impeccably named, once-heralded Mariners prospect who hit just .221 in three seasons in the majors before retreating to Japan, is smacking the everloving shit out of baseballs right now. Friday he hit his 52nd home run—three shy of the Nippon Professional Baseball record—and ...
The Predators Just Earned Themselves A New Nickname
In the finest tradition of the Atlanta Barves, Nashville's hockey team will henceforth be known by its new, self-bestowed typo nickname. Let us be among the first to say, "Go Perds!"...
Maryland Won't Hand Out Game Balls Because Of NCAA Regulations
Linebacker Marcus Whitfield had a hell of an opener for the Terps, racking up five tackles and one-and-a-half sacks. He was awarded the game ball, but won't get to see it for a while—the school is putting it in storage to avoid running afoul of NCAA regulations....
Reports: Jay Z Selling Nets Shares To Jason Kidd
Forced to give up his lifelong dream of franchise ownership for his new lifelong dream of being an agent, Jay Z has been looking to unload his stake in the Nets for a few months now. It seems it'll stay in the family: the Post reports that at least some of Jay Z's share will be purchased by new Nets...
True Grit: College Football Photos That Feel Real
For some sports fans, fall is the season when baseball finally gets interesting. But for countless other maniacs, autumn is about one thing: football. College football. It doesn't really matter whether a school is in the SEC or the Big Ten; the Ivy League or Big Sky; Division I, II or III: when summ...
The Pirates Finally Know What It's Like To Not Lose
It's done. It's over. Professional sports' longest string of losing seasons ended last night, as the Pirates won their 81st game to guarantee at least a .500 year for the first time since 1992. Only problem is, these Pirates are too good to get excited about merely winning....
Brandon Marshall Is Better Than Drew Brees, And Other Fantasy Truths
Fantasy football may not have all the blood and sweat and violence and trauma of the game as it's played on the field, but there's at least one way in which it's just like the real thing: as John Madden put it, "usually the team that scores the most points wins." How you get those points may be ver...
Guy Who Said "You Can't Arrest Me, I'm A Colts Player" No Longer A Colts Player
How was your Labor Day? It was better than Colts rookie John Boyett's....
Jared Sullinger Arrested On Domestic Assault Charges
Celtics sophomore forward Jared Sullinger turned himself into police this morning, and was charged with assault and battery, malicious destruction of property and witness intimidation, after a weekend confrontation with his girlfriend....
Chase Utley Finally Answers Mac From <em>It's Always Sunny's</em> Fan Letter
The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode in which Mac's very sad letter to Chase Utley is read aloud is four years old, but we'll excuse the tardiness of this response because it's pretty damn funny. Maybe Utley just had a lot of catching up to do on his DVR queue. ...
Why The NFL And Players Were Both Desperate To Settle Concussion Suits
Now that emotions have cooled, it's worth looking back at the concussion litigation that led to a $765 million settlement from the NFL. Something resembling a near-certainty emerges: Had it gone to trial, this was a case the NFL was going to win, for two distinct and dispassionate reasons....
The Few, the Proud, the Totally Chill: In Praise of Old-School Beach Bums
In February 1950, LIFE published a feature on what the magazine called "the gold-bricking existence" of ski bums at Sun Valley, Idaho. Eight months later, the magazine published a follow-up under the wonderful title, "LIFE Revisits the Ski Bums (and Finds They Are Now Beach Bums)."...
Facebook Data Now Give Us The Best Map Of College Football Fandom
Taking off from its outstanding NFL and college basketball maps, Facebook has compiled county-by-county data on which Top 25 college football teams have the most "likes" across the nation (click here for a larger image). With the usual caveat that many of the counties shown here have very few people...
NY Post Declares "Carolina" Its Own State
Make sure to pick a copy of next Thursday's Post for a preview of the Potato Bowl, where we'll finally get to see who's the best team in "Dakota."...
The Champions League Group Of Death Is Just Hilarious
There are 32 teams left after the Champions League playoff round ended yesterday, and so today was the Champions League draw, where the teams were divided into eight groups of four for the group stage of the tournament. There will be plenty of analysis and explanation and bloviation around the inter...
Deep Cover
That's what J.R. Moehringer went when he wrote this story for the L.A. Times magazine on Pete Carroll, who was still coaching college football at the time. It's a self-aware piece but still intriguing: ...