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"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]...

Is Jose Canseco insane? Or is he the only sane one? Probably neither. But PopSci nonetheless collected all his smartest Twitter tidbits. [PopSci]...

Our man Drew Magary was on Morning Joe today (where Mike Barnicle talked about beaning his kids with fastballs) to promote his new book, Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood. You should buy it if you like things that are good. He'll also be doing a thing in Brooklyn t...

How can MLB teams make their players suck less? By giving them a lot of naps! [PopSci]...

Austinites: Glory boy author Drew Magary will be at BookPeople tonight to read from Someone Could Get Hurt. 7 p.m. CDT. Details here....

Out-of-context single-clause excerpt from Drew Magary's new book, selected at random (by a reader): "Children HATE it when you talk on the phone to other people." Someone Could Get Hurt arrives Thursday. Buy it....

Out-of-context single-clause excerpt from Drew Magary's new book, selected at random: "... the only thing spanking does is set your child up for a life of sexual deviancy." Someone Could Get Hurt drops Thursday. Buy it now....

Cool baseball newsletter: The Slurve. It's like an unconstipated version of Buster Olney's morning roundup. Very much worth the subscription. [The Slurve]...

Editor emeritus A.J. Daulerio is speaking on the NFLPA Draft Forum sports media panel, along with SI's Richard Deitsch, New York Giant Justin Tuck, and others. A.J.'s the one in the visor. You can watch a live stream here....

Hebrew University, Pfizer, and Clemson University: where synthetic marijuana came from. [PopSci]...

Deadspin's Drew Magary is hosting an "Ask Me Anything" with our close friends at Reddit at 1 p.m. ET. Go bug him....

Jon Allen introduces the "Broke Man[ual]," in which he'll detail "the tricks of my Poor Man’s GQ lifestyle." First up: ties and watches that you can maybe even afford....

How To Be A Good Captive, And Other Notes From My Fake Kidnapping

I have an article in this month's GQ about my experience with a luxury abduction service, which I paid to kidnap me and hold me captive for 14 hours or so. (Here I am talking about the story on The Howard Stern Show, if you care to listen.) Given that Adam Thick, owner and operator of Extreme Kidnap...

Editor emeritus A.J. Daulerio was on Matt Ufford's SB Nation NFL Show this afternoon, with this tagline: "Wanna hear about Joe Buck, Eddie Vedder, and cocaine?" Ha ha, no, I mean, why would you? Go watch the interview here....

A math professor explains why your bracket sucks. One in 128 billion odds ain't great. [PopSci]...

Gary Sheffield Is Now An Agent, And He Wants You To Know That He Still Doesn't Like Scott Boras

If you follow the insane micromovements of the baseball hot stove season, you probably, over the past year or two, had a reaction like the one Hardball Talk had in February. "Apparently, Gary Sheffield is an agent," the headline read. Sheffield had just negotiated a minor-league deal for journeyman ...

You Can Waste A Morning Looking At These New Sports Infographics

Co. Design has a story about New York designer Deroy Peraza's latest project, in which he has created visual representations of the result of every NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA postseason in history. Each season is represented by a simple, radial infographic that have the power to evoke vivid memories of...