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Original Sin
Here's Glenn Stout's 2004 piece on Jackie Robinson's tryout with the Red Sox: "Tryout and Fallout: Race, Jackie Robinson and the Red Sox." ...

<em>Game Of Thrones</em> Author Is So Mad That The Jets Traded Darrelle Revis
George R.R. Martin, author of the popular fantasy series-turned-HBO-boob-and-dragon-extravaganza Game of Thrones, is a big fan of the New York Jets. Like many Jets fans, he is not happy that his team just traded all-pro cornerback Darrelle Revis to the Buccaneers, and so he took to his blog to vent....

The Heart of the Matter
Over at The Neiman Storyboard, Don Van Natta Jr. explains why Bill Nack's beautiful story, "Pure Gold" is so damn good. ...

This Chris Bosh Film Is Better Than All Of The Drugs
This is...I don't know what this is. It's Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse. ...

The First Photos Of The Boston Bombing Suspects' Shootout With Police
Andrew Kitzenberg lives on Laurel Street, in Watertown, Mass. On Friday morning, just before 1 a.m., he heard a series of pops from outside his window. The Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamarlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were engaging in a wild shootout with police. Kitzenberg's Twitter account was...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Charged With Using A Weapon Of Mass Destruction
That's according to a statement issued this afternoon by the U.S. Department of Justice, which reads in part:...

Delta Gamma Promises To Punish The Girl Who Wrote That Batshit Letter
This letter, which was sent by a University of Maryland sorority sister to her "fucking AWKWARD" sisters, is a gift to the world and should be cherished by all those who are fortunate enough to read it. The Delta Gamma president and executive director, however, do not feel the same way. They have is...

Massachusetts Police Release Thermal Images Of Tsarnaev In Boat
Earlier today the Massachusetts State Police released a series of thermal images taken from a helicopter, as authorities circled in on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Friday night....

Al Neuharth's Scant Positive Journalistic Contributions Were To Sports
Al Neuharth’s obituary in the New York Times was notable as much for what it did say as what it didn’t. What it did say: The founder of USA Today and driving force behind Gannett’s dubious rise to “a communications Leviathan” profoundly changed the newspaper industry. What it didn’t say: Anything mu...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev May Have Killed His Brother
According to Watertown police chief, Edward Deveau, the elder Tsarnaev was alive when his younger brother ran him over in the Mercedes SUV they carjacked earlier. ...

The Tsarnaev Brothers Allegedly Followed 9/11 Conspiracies Online
The world had to wait a half hour, max, for people to speculate that the Boston Marathon bombing was a “false flag,” i.e., a disaster manufactured by the government and pinned on someone else for political ends. Among the first to apply his apparent omniscience and determine, based on virtually no f...

Scenes From The Final Hours Of The Watertown Manhunt
The manhunt in Watertown for suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev concluded with Tsarnaev's capture around 8:45 p.m. Friday night. It capped off a surreal day that paralyzed the city of Boston and ensnared the Watertown community in a harrowing 24-hour period. ...

They Got Him: The Boston Bombing Suspect Is In Custody
At 7:00, less than an hour after police announced at a press conference that authorities had no idea where suspect Dzhokhar (Jahar) Tsarnaev was, reports flooded in that shots were been fired, and a major police action was taking place in Watertown. At 8:45, it was over....

Here's A Video Of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Wrestling With His Friends
This was just put on YouTube by one of Dzhokhar's former wrestling teammates. The description reads, "Rindge and Latin wrestling team, taking it easy over the summer. I remember Jahar, he was my friend and my teammate."...

Darkness Visible
The cover of next week's New Yorker. By Eric Drooker. ...

Bombing Suspects' Father Speaks, Claims His Sons Are Innocent
BBC News caught up with Anzor Tsanarev, father of marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and conducted a brief interview with him. Speaking through an interpreter, Anzor vehemently defended his sons, expressing confidence in their innocence. "I have 100 percent, million percent c...

Bomb Suspects' Aunt Suggests Nephews Were Set Up In Wild Presser
Maret Tsarnaev, whose nephews are implicated in Monday's Boston bombing, appeared before press in Toronto today and expressed in often bombastic language her belief that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were not responsible for the act of terror....

Meanwhile, On Fox News, Megyn Kelly Is Reading Rap Lyrics
Quality manhunt coverage right here. ...

This Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Twitter Account
Our friends at Gawker have found the real Twitter account used by Dzhokhar Tsaranev. His handle is @J_tsar, and it is listed under a simplified version of his name, "Jahar." The account has been active since the day of the marathon bombing, but as far as we can tell, his feed offers little insight o...

In Fiery Press Conference, Bomb Suspects' Uncle Calls Them "Losers"
Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, gave an impromptu press conference outside his Maryland home today. He was pissed....