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Learn To Hit Like Stan Musial From This Cool Old Vinyl Record
Used to be able to buy this 1963 record at Phillips 66 gas stations....
Bad Beat Turns Pro Poker Player Into The World's Saddest Man
Here's a bit of action from this year's World Series of Poker. As you can see on the screen, Carter Gill had a 93 percent chance of winning the hand when his opponent called his bet. Now sit back and let the agony wash over you....
Starling Marte Hung A Young Fan's Drawing In The Pirates Dugout
Starling Marte went on the DL last week with a hand injury. The Pirates, a game back in the division ahead of a big weekend series with St. Louis, could really use the speedy outfielder back in the lineup....
Cops Bust Late-Night Alcohol And Weed Party On Michigan Stadium Field
Party at The Big House!...
If The Jets Are Going Down, They're Taking The Media With Them
The New York Jets have graduated from hapless ne'er-do-wells to full-blown snowball rolling down the mountain, taking out everything in its path. Tonight, the Jets jump-started an ugly dustup between national and local media. Maybe, just maybe, some good can come out of this Jets season: total media...
Young Gun: Dempsey Pounds Willard
Slide on over to Deadline Artists for this look into the past—Grantland Rice's 1919 column on the Jack Dempsey Jess Willard fight:...
Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart Is A Mess
The Miami Marlins held a Legends of Wrestling celebration on Saturday and a bunch of former wrestling stars were present. Goldberg was there, as were both members of the Hart Foundation, Bret "The Hitman" Hart and Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart. Bret is old. Jim is a disaster....
What's The Rumpus?
Kudos to Rolling Stone for reprinting Jonathan Cott’s 1976 profile of Maurice Sendak:...
"And Here Goes The Gun Signalling The Start Of The Season."
And other sports-related funny business from my favorite New Yorker cartoonist: George Price. ...
This Interactive Graphic On MLB Payrolls Is Amazing
You may want to wait a bit before checking out Phil Roth's wonderful little tool that allows you to explore baseball teams' payrolls, because you'll be there a while....
What's In A Name, Sugar?
Vhy a duck? Leigh Montville's latest for Sports on Earth is a lot of fun:...
Knock 'Em Out The Box: Sport For Art's Sake
From the Sports Curator comes this 1921 Heywoood Broun column for the New York World:...
Struzan: The Man Behind The Poster
This looks like a dope movie. Check out this cool post by Nick Schager over at Esquire.com on Drew Struzan:...
Source: Remy's Mom Begged Girlfriend Not To Extend Restraining Order
After Jared Remy was arrested Tuesday and charged with beating his girlfriend, his mother contacted the girlfriend and begged her not to extend the emergency temporary restraining order she had been granted because it would "ruin his life," a neighbor who asked to remain anonymous told us....
NBA Efficiency Rating Inventor Kills Self, Explains Via Website
Martin Manley, the former Kansas City Star contributor whose insight into sports made him a key component of that paper's sports section, committed suicide yesterday—and left a sprawling website to explain why....
Babe Ruth In The Funny Papers
My father turned 36 in 1973. My twin sister and I were 2 and for his birthday my mother gave him a book called Great Comics, a collection of classic comic strips syndicated by the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. It featured Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Moon Mullins, Winnie Winkle, G...
Here's The Roof That'll Cover Arthur Ashe Stadium At U.S. Open
The USTA released renderings this afternoon of the new roof that will be built for Arthur Ashe Stadium. The USTA said it's "likely" it'll be ready by 2017. There will also be a grand renovation of the entire U.S. Open tennis campus in Queens. It'll cost $550 million. That'll include a new Louis Arms...
Michigan State Coaches And Players Fall For Mannequin Prank
The cruelest part of dressing a student up as a statue then having him surprise unsuspecting coaches and players is doing it at 6:30 a.m., as everyone arrives for practice. That's far too early to pee yourself....
These Minimalist Baseball Stadium Posters Are Fantastic
In the spirit of minimalist movie posters, graphic designer S. Preston Chuhon has created simple, evocative prints based off the distinguishing features of a handful of MLB ballparks....