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Ronaldo Returns Lost Phone, Treats Owner And Her Friends To A Night Out
Cristiano Ronaldo is famous for his many, many goals and the selfish way he goes about scoring them. However, the forward is apparently more than willing to lend a helping hand to a random stranger in Las Vegas, finding a woman’s phone, returning it to her, and taking her and her friends on a night ...
How To Win A Swordfight
Let's say a gentleman scandalizes your lady at a bar. Rude, right? Let's say he poisons your father to get closer to your mother. Ruder, I'd say. But what're you gonna do about it? Today, such matters are usually resolved via graceless brawls involving a combination of wrestling and hair-pulling. ...
How To Not Suck At Tinder
It's cool to be good at Tinder, but it's far more important that you not be absolutely terrible at Tinder. So for starters, all you men-seeking-women types out there need to learn one important rule: Even if you match with a girl—and let me put this in italics so you'll remember—she has no obligatio...
Report: MLS Will Shut Down Chivas USA
Per ESPN, Chivas USA is expected to cease operations after season's end and remain dormant for a minimum of two years before coming back as a totally different club, which is a politically correct way to say they're blowing it all up and starting over. It's the nuclear option for an MLS club that se...
The Foodspin Archive
Here’s a complete archive of all the Saturday Foodspin columns, which we’ll update each time there’s a new one....
HIV, Hepatitis C, And More: New York's Amateur MMA Scene Is A Disaster
Things get bloody not long after the fight goes from technical battle to all-out brawl, and the former Hofstra wrestler and the kickboxer from Brooklyn up the tempo, mixing thudding kicks to the thigh with straight shots to the face. The venue—an event space in Chinatown called the Capitale—echoes w...
Still Diggin': Museum Of Natural History's Digital Archives
Sam Roberts on the digitized images now available from the Museum of Natural History. ...
Magic Act: The Making Of Earvin Johnson, AIDS Saint
Originally published in the February 1993 issue of GQ. Annotations by the author appear throughout. For more, check out E. Jean Carroll's story about NBA groupies, published in 1992 as "Love in the Time of Magic."...
Olympic Luger Crashes, Makes Incredible Recovery
During a training run on the Olympic luge course, Indian luger Shiva Keshavan fell off his sled before making an amazing save, somehow flipping over and regaining his position on his sled. The scene made for a pretty mind-bending GIF, which makes it look like Keshavan was aided by CGI or wire effect...
Vintage Radio Broadcasts Of Baseball Games
Head on over to the Internet Archive and dig their selection of radio broadcasts of old baseball games. ...
Sin City: Magic, HIV, And A Night At Roxbuy
In 1992 Paul Solotaroff wrote "The Skin Trade," a story for GQ about Roxbury, the famous L.A. nightclub. Looking back, Solotaroff doesn't think much of his story but I wanted to share its conclusion with you because it touches on the nature sports, celebrity and sex:...
Shirley Povich on Football
Slide on over to the Washington Post and check out this selection of football columns by Shirley Povich. ...
Make Your Own In-Stadium Prison Shank, America!
Did you attend the Redskins game last night? Were you sitting in the upper deck of the open-air jail that is FedEx Field? Were you stabbed with a beer bottle fashioned into a shiv? No? Well, consider yourself lucky. From reader Jon......
Another Former Employee Sues Chivas USA For Discrimination
A former employee has filed a discrimination complaint against MLS team Chivas USA, claiming any non-Latino employee was harassed and squeezed out of the club. This follows on the heels of two Chivas USA coaches filing a suit that made similar claims....
Racing's Angriest Young Man And The Greatest Hits of 1961
Though it's not easy to navigate I think it's worth your time to cruise on over to the Internet Archives to read the full text of The Best Sports Stories 1961. It includes pieces by Stanley Woodward, W.C. Heinz, Myron Cope, Red Smith, Blackie Sherrod, Dick Schaap, Tex Maule, Dick Young, Roger Kahn, ...
A Place For Our Stuff
This short documentary by Deepspeed Media is worth your time. ...
The Art of Storytelling: John Hersey's Writing Seminar
Our man Peter Richmond wrote a wonderful piece over at the Nieman storyboard about John Hersey's senior-year writing seminar at Yale. ...
American Treasure
Via NPR, Alan Lomax’s massive archive goes on line....
A Collection Of Your Stories About Meeting Muhammad Ali
On Friday, we republished "My Dinner with Ali," Davis Miller's great story from 1989 about his life-affirming encounter with Muhammad Ali. Almost immediately, the comments section began filling up with readers' own accounts of meeting Ali. You can find a few of those through the links below, but you...