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OJ: The Musical is a movie that exists, and the trailer suggests we might actually enjoy it. If you live in or near Atlanta, you can reserve some seats for a June 17 screening over here....

Since Iverson, the shooting sleeve has been as much a staple of NBA fashion as anything, but it actually started as a happy little medical-MacGyvering accident. The New Yorker has a short history of how it happened—go give it a read. ...

How To Plan A Road Trip To All 30 MLB Ballparks In 30 Days

Over at Slate, Eric Brewster and Ben Blatt have put together a very cool tool that completely automates an itinerary for you for a <30-day road trip to every MLB park. It's pretty useful—if you have the leisure time and bank account to run off and do something like this. Go poke around at it and pla...

Retro Report does its thing on the '98 Manning-Leaf draft and the cottage industry of character whisperers that sprang up in its wake. (If you've never heard of Retro Report, take a few minutes to watch this, about the myth of the crack-baby boom.)...

Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, has his pick for the Kentucky Derby. He likes Chitu as the best value—20-1 right now—but he has some other recommendations for exotics that you should check out on his blog. Levitt also swung by Deadspin to chat horse racing yesterday, which you can read her...

Tired of dumb sportswriting? Our pal Yago Colás and friends are raising funds for a site that will bring together sports and the academy, in service of addressing serious questions about class, race, gender, and all the rest. Check out their plans, and think about kicking them some money. [The Allro...

Old pal Emma Carmichael tells you everything you need to know about UConn's Breanna Stewart, whom Geno Auriemma calls "the first Durantesque player in the women's game." [SI]...

How do you survive an avalanche? You get a backpack that doubles as an "avalanche airbag," apparently. They've been around for decades, but have gotten a higher-tech makeover. Our friend Amanda Ruggeri has a look at them over on BBC. ...

Every White Basketball Player Gets Compared To Larry Bird

This week's SI cover on the left; the Nov. 28, 1977, cover on the right. While we're doing throwbacks, here's Josh Levin in 2005, on the folly of white-on-white hoops comparisons. [Slate | SI.com]...

This is your annual reminder to subscribe to Michael Brendan Dougherty's smart, comprehensive baseball newsletter, The Slurve....

Clean person Jolie Kerr is hosting an AMA over on reddit right now. Go ask her how to clean whatever the hell it is you've ruined this time. ...

Deadspin Clean Person Jolie Kerr, author of a forthcoming book, is all up in your New York Times....

Over at FastCoDesign, they've collected a bunch of the worst (best? best.) uniform failures. This year's speed skating suits rank, but loop back for the bobsledder ass-rip and bobsledder pot belly. [FastCoDesign]...

Friends of the site Adam Pash and Ellen Flaherty have made this cool thing that won't in any way be used by randy teenagers for the purposes of displaying genitalia. [andtheniwaslike.com]...

Bootsy Collins Made A Christmas Song About Peyton Manning

We have Sports Illustrated Kids to thank for this, which is fairly ironic seeing as how it's very unlikely that any kids who see it are going to know who the hell Bootsy Collins is. ...

Greg Pollock lost a piece of his humanity playing fantasy football, which he writes "takes up attention that could otherwise drift into negative thoughts about the NFL." [Slate]...

"Yeah! Let's watch some interchangeable monsters kick the shit out of each other strategically! And use a ball!": Jack Dickey watches football with Nate Jackson (have we mentioned how great his book is?). [Time]...

Q: "How many people do you think you've had sex with?" A: "Counting oral sex, I think we're to four figures at this point. Let's call it a thousand." [The Hairpin] ...

"He’s just like a child. This guy hit 555 homers in the major leagues, and he’s coming here trying to learn from kids about how they swing. I’m like, what? Are you fucking kidding me?" A look at how Taiwan remade Manny Ramirez. [BuzzFeeᴅ]...

Our man Donnell Alexander has re-released Beyond Ellis D, his iPad book about the life and times of Dock Ellis, with a new prologue addressing Biogenesis. Re-read the excerpt from last year if you'd like, then check the whole app out. [iTunes]...