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The Yankee Bullshitters: What Joe D, Yogi, And Mickey Were Really Like
Last week gave a short post on the late, great Lenny Shecter. Now, for a real taste of his no-bullshit style, here's an excerpt from "The Flower of America" chapter of his 1969 book of essays, The Jocks....
9 Out Of 10 Schools On This ESPN Map Are In The Wrong Place
As of today, the American Athletic Conference is officially a thing. ESPN has welcomed the new conference with a (since deleted) map on its college hoops Facebook page. "Map" in the loosest sense of the term....
Slim Thug Is Doing His Part To Get Dwight Howard To Sign With Houston
For a few NBA teams, the mad dash to sign Dwight Howard has begun, and the Houston Rockets have emerged as a frontrunner to land the free-agent big man. The Rockets already had Yao Ming and Hakeem Olajuwon do their part to get Howard to Houston, and now rapper and Houston native Slim Thug has taken ...
AFL Opening Kickoff Leads To TD For Kicking Team, Announcers Lose It
It seems pretty likely that this is the first touchdown on the opening kickoff in football history to be scored by the kicking team, right? Ah, Arena Football....
Pirate Parrot Lunges For Ball, Faceplants
Note 1: It's not that this video is cut short. We checked, and the Root Sports broadcast cuts away from the super slo-mo JUST before the mascot goes beak-first into the dirt, in order not to miss the next pitch. Damn it....
Grip It Good
A RIDDLE: Who is stronger? Jeff, whose huge biceps pop up when he makes a "flexing" motion, as he frequently does; or his brother Jeremy, who has huge triceps thanks to endless skull crushers and "tricep kickbacks"? The answer may surprise you....
Tulsa Is Adorably Chasing The 2024 Summer Olympics
Let us get this out up front: Most of us know by now that the Olympics—as with most any government expenditure on sporting events—aren't a particularly good use of taxpayer dollars. They're good for autocrats who want to charm Western journalists; they're good for mayors, governors, and businessmen...
Angry Soccer Fans Throw Chairs At Team Owner
Here's a tip for owners of Argentinian soccer clubs: If your team has just been relegated to a lower division for the first time in its history, make sure you have a lot of security on hand at your next press conference....
Here's A Goofy Video Clint Dempsey Made With His Furman Teammates
Before becoming America's beacon of soccer opportunity in the English Premier League, Clint Dempsey was a college kid kicking around the pitch at Furman University. Here's a goofy "skills competition" Dempsey and some teammates put together roughly ten years ago....
The Yankees Are Paying $95 Million For A Whole Lot Of Nothing
Or: why payroll size matters less than what you do with it....
Today In Disinterested Baseball Fans: A Kid Doing Origami
This picture comes to us from reader Michael, and it was taken at a recent Twins-Brewers game. ...
Melting the Plastic Man
Here's a classic for you—Gary Cartwright's 1973 Texas Monthly piece on Tom Landry:...
You're Having a Party?
My aunt and uncle, longtime Upper West Siders love telling stories about Morris, the deli counter man at the old Daitch Shopwell that used to be on Broadway. They adored Morris and the little old ladies who would visit him. This is what they overheard:...
Are Any Baseball Writers <em>Not</em> On A Movie Set With Jon Hamm Right Now?
Million Dollar Arm is a movie about Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, two Indian-born pitchers who made their way into the Pittsburgh Pirates' farm system after winning a "Million Dollar Arm" contest in India. The movie is currently filming, and today a cadre of baseball writers are on set to film a cam...
Barack Obama Did NOT Discuss Hasheem Thabeet When He Visited Tanzania
Obama in Tanzania: "We did not discuss Hasheem Thabeet, but maybe we will next time." cc: @scottcacciola...
Great Expectations
Head on over to the New Yorker and check out this post by Richard Brody on a new book of interviews with Orson Welles:...