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Here's The Roof That'll Cover Arthur Ashe Stadium At U.S. Open
The USTA released renderings this afternoon of the new roof that will be built for Arthur Ashe Stadium. The USTA said it's "likely" it'll be ready by 2017. There will also be a grand renovation of the entire U.S. Open tennis campus in Queens. It'll cost $550 million. That'll include a new Louis Arms...
The Time A Baseball Player Sent A Rat To A Female Sportswriter
This column originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee on June 26, 1986. It is reprinted here with the author's permission. ...
Francisco Liriano Gives Zero Fucks About Having To Hit
Francisco Liriano threw a four-hit complete game last night, helping the Pirates end a four-game losing streak. His performance kept scores of nervous Yinzers, panicked at the possibility of another late-season Pirates collapse, from racing to the Roberto Clemente Bridge and ending it all. Liriano t...
Notre Dame RB Wrecked By Backward Sled
Despite being warned ("No, it's not backwards!"), Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly sent his running backs into a gauntlet sled that was indeed set up backward and would not permit entry. This is not the sort of training they need—most of them remember the BCS title game well enough....
Street Fightin' Man
Here’s a good book for you: “Townie,” by Andre Dubus III....
Remote Warehouse Contains More U.S. Soccer History Than Anyplace Else
Since the National Soccer Hall of Fame closed in 2010, its thousands of artifacts have been sitting untouched in a locked North Carolina warehouse. What will become of this enormous trove of U.S. soccer history?...
The Madness of Pro Football
This one is a keeper. From Men's Journal in May, 2011—“The Ferocious Life and Tragic Death of a Super Bowl Star,” by Paul Solotaroff and Rick Telander:...
Michigan State Coaches And Players Fall For Mannequin Prank
The cruelest part of dressing a student up as a statue then having him surprise unsuspecting coaches and players is doing it at 6:30 a.m., as everyone arrives for practice. That's far too early to pee yourself....
How The Blockbuster Model Explains ESPN
The Atlantic has a really good piece today that explores how ESPN became the most "valuable media property in the United States." Two things, really: 1.) John Skipper, ESPN's president, started gobbling up live rights for traditional sports back in 2005, moving against the tide of airport-bookstore ...
Instagram: All City
Life in and around the Big Apple according my pictures over on Instagram. ...
Giant Moth Dive Bombs A.J. Pierzynski
First it was Matt Holliday. Then it was Alex Gordon. Now it's A.J. Pierzynski. Moths are not just positively phototactic. They're also drawn to baseball players. It's science....
On Second Thought...
Craig Robinson posted this photograph and writes: "This is the sort of photograph that makes me think I should really try to get into ice hockey." ...
WWE Wrestler Announces He's Gay
Not a gimmick, not an angle (yet!), and done in the least showy way imaginable....
LaTroy Hawkins Took A Ball In The Nuts And It Was The Worst Thing Ever
It is clear now that the Dodgers cannot lose. Scoring two in the ninth and one in the 12th, Los Angeles took its eighth straight. But I'm not here to talk about that. With the help of my friend LaTroy Hawkins, I'd like to tell all the kids out there just how important it is to wear your cup....
Yasiel Puig Initiates Launching Sequence, Throws Out Marlon Byrd
Puig was unable to record the out on Justin Turner's little flare to shallow right in the second inning in Los Angeles, so he just mowed down Marlon Byrd foolishly attempting to advance to third instead. Watch more angles—it looks like he's throwing a golf ball from his ear—and listen to Vin Scully...
Alfonso Soriano Is A Breath Of Fresh Air
In two nights, Alfonso Soriano has four home runs and 13 RBI. In those same nights, the Yankees have demolished the Angels 14-7 and 11-3. He's played 17 games for the Yankees this season and has seven home runs. It is 2013 and Yankee Stadium is chanting "Soriano" like it's 2003. ...
And now, a couple of sentences written about Amar'e Stoudemire: "Stoudemire has been selected as one of the judges for this year’s Miss America Pageant on Sept. 14, according to the Knicks website. He and former ‘N Sync member Lance Bass are headlining a panel of judges next month that includes name...
Pelicans Forward Ryan Anderson's Girlfriend Dead Of Apparent Suicide
New Orleans Pelicans forward Ryan Anderson found his girlfriend, model and The Bachelor star Gia Allemand, unconscious in her apartment Monday night after an apparent suicide by hanging. He called 911 and she was taken to University Hospital in New Orleans where she was placed on life support....