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Weekend Stacked
The Stacks now has a weekend home over at The Daily Beast. ...
Shaun White: All Moussed Up
From Elizabeth Weil's New York Times Magazine profile:...
This Old Chinese Figure Skater Has Smooth Moves, Awesome Facial Hair
In February 1946 readers of a popular weekly magazine were introduced to exactly the sort of scene Henry Luce likely had in mind when, a decade earlier, he and poet Archibald MacLeish crafted their famous prospectus for a publication initially called "The Show-Book of the World." The still-stirring ...
The Paranoid And Obsessive Life Of A Mid-Level Bookie
Check out Doug Brown's fine profile for Cleveland Scene:...
Heart of Darkness
The fear came for Willie Walker that November. He was not expecting it. Evening had dropped early and hard, as it does in Western Pennsylvania in the fall, but these were streets he had known forever. Hours had passed since the 2004 regional championship game had ended down in Pittsburgh; the adrena...
NFL Films Taught Us How To Watch Football
Rich Cohen's great portrait of Ed and Steve Sabol:...
Hey Mike Burke, Don't You Wish You Were The Boss Of The Mets?
From Jock magazine, here's Stan Issacs' 1969 story on Mike Burke....
At The 1960 Cotton Bowl, A Syracuse Win And A Nasty Racial Ruckus
In January 1960, an undefeated Syracuse team whipped Texas, 23-14, in the Cotton Bowl. [See rare photos from the game here.] But it wasn't especially pretty, as LIFE magazine reported in its Jan. 11, 1960, issue: ...
When Chickens Play Baseball, We All Win
"Casey Number Two, who is more temperamental than her colleagues, jumps on the playing field to peck at the first baseman, who has blocked her hit."...
Love Song to Willie Mays
Joe Flaherty's love song to the Say Hey Kid. ...
75 Years Ago NFL Players Looked Like This
"Pro football is almost a different game from college football," LIFE magazine helpfully informed its readers in October 1938. In those years, the biggest pro sports in America were baseball, boxing and horse racing; professional football barely registered on most fans' radar. But pro ball was makin...
Tom Seaver And Pat Jordan: The Sunshine Boys
Over at Sports on Earth Pat Jordan has a nice long story about his recent trip to California to visit his old chum Tom Seaver:...
A Face Only A Hockey Puck Could Love
Once upon a time, NHL goalies played without masks. Unsurprisingly, their faces often got all fucked up. In 1966, LIFE published an article, "The Goalie Is the Goat," that not only aimed to put a human countenance on "hockey's reviled and bludgeoned fall-guys," but featured a photo of what looked li...
Who Said Girls Can't Jump?
Check out this winning piece by Mireille Silcoff for the New York Times Magazine:...
The Badassest Rookie Linebacker The NFL Has Ever Seen
I was never a Bears fan, although I do admire the uniform — orange, black and white together just feels football-y, somehow — and I bawled like a crazy person while reading I Am Third and again while watching Brian's Song. (Damn you, James Caan. Damn you to tearjerking hell.) But recently I came acr...
Smash
The big question for those of us jaded with the modern game of ping-pong—the oof-plock, oof-plock of devious sponge, no rally lasting longer than the cramped spin serve, the dabbed return, and the silent kill—was whether the great Marty Reisman, just one grey hair short of 70 but still refusing the ...
Cut Off From The Herd
Dig S.L. Price's 1997 SI feature on Randy Moss:...
Chasing A Rod
Head on over to New York Magazine and check out Steve Fishman's takeout piece on Alex Rodriguez:...
Slap Me Five
A few years ago at ESPN the Magazine, Jon Mooallem wrote a piece on the history and mystery of the high five:...