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Butkus: One Season And One Injury With The Meanest Man Alive
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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. ...

A One-Punch Knockout On $3 Pitcher Night
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Knock Out Video." Tonight's commentator: Tyler, "a concerned sports fan from Chicago" who recorded said KO Video. (Coming next week: The previously mentioned Lady Wildi...

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....

Meet The 31-Year-Old Rapper Who Is Dating LeBron James's Mom
See that guy creeping behind LeBron James and Dwyane Wade on the beach in the picture above? His name is Da Real Lambo, he's currently dating Gloria James, and he has a very active Instagram account....

How To Pair Wine With Food: A Guide For Ordinary Drunkards
"Ew, I wouldn't date him. He's a Sauvignon blanc drinker!"...

R.I.P. Tommy Morrison
Elizabeth Merrill is a terrific writer. ESPN is lucky to have her (anybody would be lucky to have her). And we're fortunate that we get to read her work. Like this story on Tommy Morrison who died on Sunday:...

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....

The FBI Vs. Marvin Miller
After the death of Marvin Miller, we FOIA'ed the FBI file of the former union head. For someone whose spent his life fighting for baseball players to enjoy the free market, the government seemed pretty convinced he was a Commie....

A Defense Of Scott Boras
You might hate Boras and the rest of the superagents. But they've worked harder for labor than just about anyone else in baseball....

The Labor Giant Who Transformed American Sports
It's Labor Day. Why not remember Marvin Miller, the union head who dragged baseball into modernity, with this reflection, written one day after his death last fall?...

Ray Lewis Still Not Making Any Sense
Ray Lewis thinks it was a conspiracy that turned the lights off at the Superdome during the Super Bowl last year. Lewis revealed his theory during filming for America's Game, an NFL Films series that discusses the previous Super Bowl with a few members of the winning team. This year, they spoke wit...

Patriots QB Tim Tebow: A Remembrance
As we learned earlier today, the Patriots cut Tim Tebow. It appears there are stones even the Mad Genius of New England cannot phlebotomize. Please watch and remember the good times we had this summer. ...

How To Barbecue Ribs: A Guide For The Perplexed
Pork ribs are to Serious Barbecue—which is something distinct from the burgers-and-dogs routine for which your average Suburban Dad-type unfurls his "Kiss The Cook" apron on the odd sunny July weekend—what the four-seam fastball is to pitching....

I Kind Of Like Tim Tebow Now
The hatred of Tim Tebow and the hatred of the attention lavished on Tim Tebow are wrongly, if understandably, mixed. In a Baylessless vacuum, in a place where the word "intangibles" isn't used by pundits for the purposes of invidious distinction, Tebow would probably be an OK dude, and a lot of fun...

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...


Hawaii QB Lays Out USC Defender With Monster Block
This is almost not fair. Hawaii quarterback Taylor Graham is listed at 6'5", 235. He has five inches and 35 pounds on his prey, USC cornerback Kevon Seymour. Still: head on a swivel, Trojans....