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The Elements of Style: "I Never Liked Fighting"
My father wasn’t a boxing fan but talked about Sugar Ray Robinson with admiration. Robinson was a brutal and efficient fighter, I was told, “pound-for-pound, the greatest boxer of all-time."...
Moto X Competitor Spices Up His Tricks With A Little Air-Humping
This is one of Blake Williams's runs from last night's Moto X Freestyle competition at the X Games. Williams pulls off some pretty Xtreme tricks here, but we would like to draw your attention to the two he pulls off at the 1:03- and 1:26-marks of the video....
Bringing It All Back Home
Grantland's Director's Cut series began with this gem from Tony Kornheiser: a 1980 Inside Sports cover story on Nolan Ryan:...
LeeRoy, He Ain't Here No More
Pete Dexter's 1980 story on LeeRoy Yarbrough for Inside Sports has a chilling lede:...
Manchild In The Promised Land: Where Darryl Dawkins Came From
Originally published in the April 30, 1980, issue of Inside Sports. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
What's Your Hurry, Joe?
Found combing through the excellent and most bookmark-worthy site The Sports Curator, I came across this 1941 column by Jimmy Cannon:...
What Hockey Needs Is More Violence
Originally published in Inside Sports in January 1981....
The Spurs Just Beat The Motherfucking Brakes Off The Miami Heat
This is an article about Tracy McGrady....
Gentlemen, Start Your Coffins
Another good one—Rick Reilly's 1986 SI tribute to the columnist Jim Murray—"King of the Sports Page":...
How To Get The Crazy Out Of American Youth Sports
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
"This Is Becoming Comedy Central": NJ Senators Want Rutgers AD Fired
Two State senators, Governor Chris Christie and other New Jersey officials want to put an immediate end to the Rutgers/Julie Hermann circus. Senators Ray J. Lesniak and Richard Codey have gone on record as wanting to see newly-hired athletic director gone and university president Robert Barchi follo...
The Double Life Of A Gay Dodger
Originally published in the October 1982 issue of Inside Sports....
How Ed O'Bannon's Lawsuit Would Dismantle The NCAA
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
A Column Is Who You Are, And Other Lessons: A Q&A With Pete Dexter
From Pete Dexter's first novel, God's Pocket (1983):...
Sympathy For the Devil
Here's a treat—Joe Flaherty's 1981 Inside Sports piece on Jake LaMotta:...
Pete Dexter: A Writer Who Makes Writers Want To Give Up
Pete Dexter was a columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News for close to ten years, from the late Seventies through the mid-Eighties. He wasn't just any old columnist but one of the most original we've ever had. His columns often read like short stories so it's no surprise that he went on to write no...
The Complete Family Tree Of College Mascots
The above image is just a tiny portion—the cat teams—of the universe of NCAA mascots. Of nearly 1,300 schools in Divisions I, II, and III, there are bound to be some repeats. But now that someone has gone to the trouble of putting every single one on a poster and breaking them down by team name, it'...
Mark Emmert Is The NCAA's Teflon Don
Since taking over as president of the NCAA in 2010, Mark Emmert has overseen the unjust railroading of the Penn State football program in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, as well as the shoddily run investigation into the University of Miami, which only succeeded in revealing the NCAA to...
Singing Wrestler May Lose Scholarship Because The NCAA Is The Worst (Even When It's Not Doing Anything)
I suppose we all agree that the NCAA is terrible. The organization does so many wretched things in the name of protecting academics and amateurism in college sports that it's hard to keep track. (If you remained unconvinced after this latest mess at Miami, where the NCAA's half-assed shadiness wou...