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Can USATF Coach Jon Drummond Carry Your Drugs?
David Epstein, writing for Sports Illustrated and ProPublica, reports that a USA Track & Field representative and coach "encouraged [the] use of the banned products and transported them" for doper Tyson Gay....
An Ex-Con's Guide To Prison Weightlifting
Lifting weights in an American prison means joining a culture unlike any seen in a free-world gym, full of crudely welded pig iron and rust. Men forsake masturbation to improve their bench-press stats and consume cans of Jack Mack, the cheapest tinned fish in the world, along with the filthy broth i...
Why Bode Miller Mattered
In a way, it's fitting for Bode Miller's Olympic career to end like this, if this is indeed the end. Having re-injured his knee in Wednesday's giant slalom, in which he finished 20th, the 36-year-old absented himself from the last ski race of the Sochi Olympics, today's slalom. He'd spent his career...
Ted Ligety Is Skidding His Way To A Skiing Revolution
Ted Ligety is all about technique. He's precise. Controlled. Clean. He's also a complete risk-taker. Each of those so-called precise, controlled, clean turns? They're perpetually a razor's-edge (or a millisecond) from disaster. ...
Which Olympians Are Getting The Dead-Relative Sob-Story Treatment?
On Sunday we saw NBC badger Bode Miller to the point of tears over his brother's death last year, a particularly brazen example of the network turning Olympic achievement into a story of overcoming personal loss. While no other athletes have been shoved and stuffed into a prefab storyline the way Mi...
NBC Wrings Every Last Tear Out Of Bode Miller
After winning bronze in the men's super-G, Bode Miller gave a post-race interview to NBC's Christin Cooper. She asked him about his brother, who passed away suddenly last year. He struggled through an answer. She asked him again. He began to break down, a single tear running down his cheek. She aske...
The Non-Skier's Guide To Ski Racing (And Ski Crashing)
Olympic skiing began this morning—men's downhill, airing on tape delay at 11 a.m.—and if you're like most viewers, you either watch the sport with quadrennial befuddlement or you change the channel entirely. As a former ski racer, and someone who started scooting around on skis at about the same tim...
Derrick Rose Tweaks A Hammy, And Chicago Fans Freak
Late in the Bulls' win over the Cavaliers tonight, Derrick Rose went from his all-angles self to a version with an unsettling lack of verticality. Turns out the Chicago point guard, who spent all last year and much of the previous season mending a knee injury, merely tweaked his hamstring or somethi...
Chargers Lineman Thinks He Hurt Himself Body-Slamming Raiders LB
We all marveled when Chargers rookie right tackle D.J. Fluker body-slammed Raiders linebacker Sio Moore the other morning. Because, like, whoa: That's a mobile, 240-pound man in padded gear Fluker just picked up and tossed into the ground. But the play may have cost Fluker more than just a 15-yard p...
Body And Soul: The Blueprint For Raging Bull
The great John Garfield in Body and Soul (directed by Robert Rossen). ...
Why Do Tennis Players Say "Come On!" So Much?
On Tuesday, in front of a small crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the inconsistent Serbian Ana Ivanoivc had an early lead on Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round at the U.S. Open. At the end of a 14-shot rally late in the first set, Ivanovic slapped a weak forehand into the net. ...
Althea Gibson and Robert Lipsyte's Forgotten Bookmark
My friend Michael Popek owns a used bookstore and runs a site called Forgotten Bookmarks, devoted to the things he finds in old books. The site did so well Michael published a book of the same name. (Check out this Q&A we did in 2011 and this profile of Michael by Shannon Firth.)...
Pittsburgh Fan With Sign Sculpted Into His Body Hair Invades D.C.
This just in to Yinzerspin. Mark Zuckerman of CSN Washington spotted this guy a few minutes ago at Nationals Park, where the Pirates are getting set to play the Nats in about 30 minutes. Is this the same jagoff who shaved something similar into his body hair at a Penguins playoff game a few months b...
Badminton Player Beats The Crap Out Of His Former Playing Partner
A world-class badminton player beating the shit out of his opponent in the middle of a match isn't something you ever expect to see, but here we are....
Infographic: Where Is ESPN The Magazine Hiding Athletes’ Naughty Bits?
The 2013 Body Issue of ESPN The Magazine hit newsstands last Friday, managing its typical trick of publishing sultry near-nudes while simultaneously patting the reader on the back for admiring the athletic form (just like the ancient Greeks!)....
Pump, Pump, Pump, Pump It Up
Paul Solotaroff had a terrific piece on the original Gold’s Gym and the rise of bodybuilding in the February, 2012 issue of Men’s Journal:...
Everybody Street
Over at Lomography, Cheryl Dunn talks about this cool-looking new documentary about New York City street photographers....