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The True School Tools Of The Trade
Pat Jordan's wife calls him a troglodyte, kicking a screaming into the 19th century. I first visited Pat at his home in Florida back in 2006 and looked through hundreds of manuscripts and drafts. I saw his tools of ignorance: an old Hermes 10 typewriter (he buys old machines on ebay for the parts), ...
A Thanksgiving Miracle: Air Jordan Logo Appears Inside Cucumber
Look at that cucumber. Look at it closely. I absolutely dare you to tell me that it's not a slow news day....
I Can't Stop Looking At This Absolutely Vicious Free Kick
This is just filthy. Uruguay's Edinson Cavani freezes the entire nation of Jordan on this marvelous free kick. Uruguay won the first leg of its World Cup qualifying playoff with Jordan 5-0, but this is the only goal anyone ever needs....
All The Right Moves--And A Few Wrong Ones--With Pat Jordan
In 1996, Pat Jordan wrote a story on Joe Torre for the New York Times magazine. It wasn't a long profile or a particularly memorable one. By Pat's own admission, it is a minor piece. The story did not make the cut for a collection of Pat's sports writing that I edited; in fact, it didn't make the B-...
This Fake <em>30 For 30</em> About Space Jam Is Actually Kind Of Funny
What if I told you that the greatest basketball player of all time retired in the middle of his prime, and that this retirement involved a trip to Looney Tune Land, where he would compete in the most important basketball game ever played? This is 30 for 30: The Space Jam Game....
Here's Michael Jordan Playing Beer Pong
Also, Michael Jordan cheating at beer pong. Elbow rule, Mike. ...
Michael Jordan Traded His Flu Game Sneakers For Applesauce (Sort Of)
Graham crackers and applesauce. That's all Michael Jordan wanted during an early-season game in Utah. The Bulls' trainer had his graham crackers, but applesauce was nowhere to be found. ...
The Curious Childhood Of An 11-Year Old Beauty Queen
Pat Jordan's 1994 story for LIFE magazine. ...
Jordan Weethee Follows Up Filthy Dunk With Unsettling Celebration
This is such a nasty, posterizing dunk—valiant effort on the charge attempt, bud—that it really needs no celebration. The story behind it is great, as well. VMI's Jordan Weethee missed all of last season with an ACL tear, the second such injury of his career. Dude is back, and running shit. Just le...
VMI Sophomore Pulls Off Flawless Dunk-Mean Mug Combination
Jordan Weethee of the Virginia Military Academy just did this during the All-Military Classic against the Citadel. The dunk is spectacular, but so is Weethee's I'm-feeling-myself-so-hard-right-now stare into the camera. ...
You Can Buy Michael Jordan's Chicagoland Mansion! (No, You Can't)
Nothing here to see but real estate porn of the highest order. Michael Jordan's selling his plush estate outside Chicago, at auction. Above is the tour video. It's 56,000 square feet on 7 acres and will cost you something on the order of $29 million — less than what Jordan earned in his final year w...
The Horse Lovers
Outside the barn. Everyone is hushed, reverential, expectant. The second assistant director; Cheryl’s stand-in; a CBS female executive; and another woman, are all standing close to the closed barn door. Their ears are pressed against the door, waiting for word of the birth of the foal. Their faces h...
Tom Terrific And His Mystic Talent
From Pat Jordan's 1972 SI profile of Tom Seaver:...
GQ
Up North Trips gives us some of GQ's basketball covers. I remember most of these issues well—from our man Peter Richmond's heyday at the magazine. ...
Daniel Negreanu: Card Stud
Daniel Negreanu is a vegetarian, without much interest in food. ''I ate two days ago'' is the kind of thing he says. His disdain for food is a reaction to his mother, who is obsessed with food. Mommy, as he calls her, likes to serve people food, then sit down and smile at them as they eat. When Negr...
Here's Michael Jordan Schooling O.J. Mayo: "Better Scream For Mama!"
When O.J. Mayo was a high school phenom, he made the mistake of shit-talking Michael Jordan at one of Jordan's summer camps. Jordan was a few years north of 40 and well into his (permanent) retirement, but because he's Michael Jordan, he wasn't about to let such insolence from some young buck stand....
Athletes Among Us: The Stories Behind These Cool Photographs
Last year the photographer Jordan Matter released a super-cool book called Dancers Among Us. He put dancers in everyday situations—in the middle of a park, a subway station, on a busy sidewalk—and photographed them, out of context, doing their dance moves. As a follow-up to the book, Matter has rel...
The Wit And Wisdom Of The White Rat
Pat Jordan's 1992 L.A. Times story on Whitey Herzog:...
Breaking The Wall With Burt
Never shy about his take on a subject, here's Pat Jordan's stinging profile on Burt Reynolds from the 1980s:...