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Do You Quit A Book You Don't Like Or Do You Keep Reading?
I’ve never had the desire to finish a book that I don’t enjoy. If a book doesn’t grab me in the first 20 or 30 pages, I’ll put it down. No guilt. But I’ve also put down books after a hundred pages, books I admire, simply because I’m distracted. It’s me, not the book....
For Those Who've Eaten Lightning And Crapped Tuesday Night Thunder
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: A farewell to TNF. Tonight's reviewer: Brian Hickey. ...
The End Of The Affair
I haven’t read anything by Graham Greene in a long time but he came to mind when I read about this book by Pico Iyer. Check out this excerpt from The Los Angeles Review of Books:...
And The Nobel Prize Goes To...
Last week Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature. ...
Satchel: The Life And Times Of An American Legend
Satchel knew that, despite being the fastest, winningest pitcher alive, being black meant he never would get the attention he deserved. That was easy to see in the backwaters of the Negro Leagues but it remained true when he hit the Majors at age forty-two, with accusations flying that his signing w...
High School Football Players Accused Of Groping Girls At Pep Rally
Ridge Point High in Texas recently held a homecoming pep rally that featured a seven minute fireworks display. While the lights were off, several football players allegedly started groping girls in the crowd and later bragged about it on Twitter. "The number of booty that was grabbed was unreal," o...
Escaped Dog Runs Half-Marathon, Wins Medal, Gets Neutered
Boogie got off his leash Friday night, and the next day decided to join the Evansville half-marathon. He finished in 2:15—better than most of the entered runners—and promptly got sent to an animal shelter for his trouble....
Death Of A Fighter
If you haven't read John Branch’s excellent profile of the late Derek Boogaard, do yourself a favor. “A Boy Learns to Brawl,” is top-notch:...
The Main Ingredient: Marcella
Last week, a post about the bluesman Furry Lewis, included this:...
Hockey Player Banned 47 Games, Then Cut, For Fighting, Eye-Gouging
Derek Campbell of the Hull Stingrays was nailed with a 47-game ban and subsequently released from his team for reacting violently after being hit against the boards by a Dundee Stars player....
A Lady Texan Reflects On A TexBro Battle In Houston
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: Tonight's commentator: Tashina Richardson. (Coming next week: The Tuesday Night Fights series finale.)...
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Earlier this year the New York Times reposted a 1976 article by Clark Booth about violence and football. It originally appeared in The Real Paper....
Peyton Manning's Naked Bootleg Is Football's Most Unstoppable Weapon
The most impressive touchdown of a game filled with them came at the end of the first half, as Peyton Manning bluffed a handoff to Knowshon Moreno, rolled to his left, and shuffled untouched into the end zone. It was a rare sighting of the Peyton Manning naked bootleg, the secret weapon of our gener...
V. S. Naipaul on Writing
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."...
Three Guys At Bar Allegedly Stabbed By Two Guys Who Hate The Steelers
A "battle of the bands" at a suburban Pittsburgh bar became the scene of a triple stabbing at the hands of two dudes who allegedly don't care much for the city's sports teams, according to police....
Every James Bond First Edition
From The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. ...
Old-Time College Football Booster Gets Wistful About Paying Players
Roy Adams, an infamous booster in SEC country, thinks the game has changed of late and that the players and boosters don't have the same relationship. He thinks the players want too much money. Don't get Adams wrong, he'd probably still give it to them and brag about it, but it's just not as quaint ...
The Sneaky Public Drinker's Guide To Impromptu Tailgating
Massachusetts has a lot going for it. First and foremost, it's a really fun word to say. We also have a lot of apples here, plus more peaches than you'd think. And I can't say for certain, but I assume we still have unparalleled access to the Funky Bunch....
Furry's Blues
“By now there must be in the world a million guitar virtuosos; but there are very few real blues players. The reason for this is that the blues–not the form but the blues–demands such dedication. This dedication lies beyond technique; it makes being a blues player something like being a priest. Virt...
How Jack Ryan Kept Tom Clancy From Buying The Minnesota Vikings
Tom Clancy died last night at the age of 66, after a long and prolific career as one of the country's most popular military and espionage writers. But during a whirlwind few months in 1998, Clancy nearly joined the ranks of that most American club: dilettante NFL owners....