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Bryce "Nothing But Hustle" Harper Benched For Lack Of Hustle
Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper was benched in yesterday's game against the Cardinals; manager Matt Williams said Harper's early exit came from a lack of hustle. The decision isn't a big deal, but it's amusing if you look at the Nationals' latest program, which advertises Harper on the ...
Bryce Harper Got Kicked In The Head
It's not officially baseball season until Bryce Harper goes through a concussion exam. So, it's baseball season....
Saints Charity Cruise Features Two Cut Players And An Alleged Rapist
The first Saints Ahoy Celebrity Fan Cruise, scheduled for March 13-17, probably sounded great when it was planned back in October. But right now, the guest list looks a lot worse....
Bryce Harper Is Jacked
Via WJFK in Washington comes this photo of Bryce Harper, carrying Girl Scout cookies in his newly enormous arms. He said all winter he was lifting, and he wasn't joking....
Darren Sharper Acquaintance Charged With Rape, Held Without Bond
Erik Nunez, an acquaintance of Darren Sharper and possibly a former Saints employee, has been accused of sexually assaulting the same two women on the night Sharper allegedly assaulted them in the same New Orleans apartment. Nunez turned himself in Friday morning. ...
Darren Sharper Turns Himself In After Eighth Alleged Rape Emerges
Former NFL safety Darren Sharper spent the night in a Los Angeles jail after surrendering to police, following the issue of an arrest warrant in New Orleans for two alleged rapes that occurred in September. If you're keeping count, Sharper is now either charged with or under investigation for eight ...
There's Another Darren Sharper Rape Investigation In Miami Beach
A new investigation surrounding Darren Sharper has cropped up in Miami. According to reports, Sharper is under investigation for sexual battery by Miami Beach police stemming from a report filed in January, and further, was linked to an incident in 2011 that sounds very similar to the allegations h...
Darren Sharper Accusations: 11 Druggings, 7 Alleged Rapes
Earlier today, details started to emerge about the charges against Darren Sharper, former NFL safety, and the alleged rapes he is connected to. As the day went on, more information made its way out, adding to the scope of the accusations, and at times conflating details. Now we have an official doc...
Report: Darren Sharper Allegedly Drugged, Raped Women In Four States
Last month, former NFL safety Darren Sharper was arrested on the suspicion of rape, connected to sexual assaults that occurred in October 2013 and January 2014. He was also connected to a third incident that happened in September 2013. Now TMZ is reporting that Sharper drugged the women with zolpide...
Plimpton's Moscow Games
The latest installment of Michael MacCambridge's "Director's Cut" series over at Grantland gives George Plimpton writing about the 1980 Olympics:...
Darren Sharper Arrested On Suspicion Of Rape
Darren Sharper, former safety for the Packers, Vikings and Saints, was arrested Friday in Los Angeles on rape charges. According to TMZ, Sharper—who now works as an analyst for the NFL Network—was connected to two sexual assaults, one from October 2013 and another this month. ...
Morality Checked
"The tendency among spoilsport sportswriters is to make it all so so elegiac and bittersweet—to like us to see our own lives (easier for men, of course) in these [minor leaguers'] prospects; to make it all a gooey-nostalgic allegory for trying and failing while still young, an emblem for rum life li...
College Volleyball Player Makes Skillful Save On Other Side Of The Net
Carson-Newman's Rachel Harper made an outstanding save, going under the net to Lincoln Memorial's side and attempting to keep the ball alive while falling. It worked! File this under cool volleyball plays you didn't know were legal....
Bud Shrake In The Land Of The Permanent Wave
Bryan Curtis wrote a nice story about Dan Jenkins, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, and their alma mater for Texas Monthly in 2008:...
To Steal A Mockingbird?
Ugliness in the literary world. This one involves Harper Lee. Mark Seal has the sordid details in a story for Vanity Fair:...
Bryce Harper Homers In First At-Bat Off The DL
In his return from a stint—it's always a stint—on the disabled list for injuries including left-knee bursitis and a wall-negotiating impairment, Bryce Harper sent the second pitch he saw over the left-center fence and gave the Nationals a 1-0 lead over the Milwaukee Brewers....
Smells Like Teen Spirit
This here's a good one, Donna Tartt's 1993 Harper's story: "Basketball Season, or Team Spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team":...
Doesn't Anyone Around Here Knock?
From Harper's back in 2001, dig Rich Cohen's fun trip to Chicago, "Down and Out at Wrigley Field":...
Fathers and Sons
Thanks to the good people at Harper's for making the late Larry L. King's classic piece, "The Old Man" available to us for free:...