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Sports Illustrated has become its own Sidd Finch in the age of AI-Generated journalismThe rapid integration of artificial intelligence into every corridor of society has created a surreal state of journalism in 2023. In its infancy, everyone is feeling around in the dark, stumbling over AI-generated content. A bevy of outlets, this site included, have dabbled in AI-generated content....

The Time Hunter S. Thompson Passed Out In A Pool And Missed The Rumble In The JungleThe classic 1974 Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire attracted, among other things, famous writers like Norman Mailer and George Plimpton and even ol’ Hunter Thompson. But while Mailer and Plimpton and the rest of the world marveled at Ali’s command performance, Thompson, well, he experienced the fight as on...

Plimpton's Moscow GamesThe latest installment of Michael MacCambridge's "Director's Cut" series over at Grantland gives George Plimpton writing about the 1980 Olympics:...

The Last Laugh: Mailer And Ali By George Plimpton

Norman Mailer went out running with Muhammad Ali one morning, a few days before the fight with George Foreman in Zaire. He asked me to go with him, but I thought of the long ride to Ali’s training camp at N’Sele in the darkness, and thumping along for five miles or so in the wake of the challenger, ...

Yeah, But How Does it Read?

Few years ago, Franz Lidz wrote a piece on former SI managing editor Gil Rogin for the New York Observer. ...

"Courage and mediocrity marked his first appearance in a Major League Stadium." George Plimpton makes up for a contest winner's baseball-less childhood. [American Circus]...

Get Smart

Andrew Marcus sold me his broken-down Intellivision system when we were in 5th grade for $20....

Watch George Plimpton And Billy Martin Awkwardly Pimp Old Video Games

Intellivision came out in 1979 as a competitor to the Atari 2600. Within a few years, Intellivision had its own baseball game with its own celebrity pitchman, forcing Atari to respond in kind. Thus, the George Plimpton-Billy Martin rivalry was born....