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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:...
How A <em>Life</em> Photographer Got This Ridiculous Shot Of 14 NFL QBs In 1961
"I had a local high school football team come to the studio every day for that week," photographer Ralph Morse, now 96 years old, tells Ben Cosgrove, "and we practiced all sorts of scenarios until we had one that worked—the guys in front tossing the ball underhand, the guys in back throwing overhand...
14 Hard-Nosed NFL Quarterbacks Play Nice For One Photographer
[NOTE: The black and white photo that was previously atop this post has been replaced with a far more excellent color picture. Thank you, Hit Bull Win Steak, for pointing out the existence of this version.]...
A League Of His Own
If you've never read Dave Meggysey's classic Out of Their League it's worth hunting down. ...
Requiem For A Welterweight
I'm late on this but in case you missed it do yourself a favor and check out Brin-Jonathan Butler's portrait of Manny Pacquiao for SB Nation Longform:...
Doris Lessing As A Sportsman
From a 1956 New Yorker story by the late Doris Lessing:...
Tough Love: Watching Football On TV While Sitting In The Snow
At first glance, it's just a photo of Big Blue fans watching the 1962 NFL title game while seated outside a Connecticut motel, beyond the range of the New York City-area TV blackout. (Green Bay beat the Giants that day at the old Yankee Stadium, 16-7.)...
Hollywood's Most Beloved Comedian Is Martin Short
David Kamp's Vanity Fair profile:...
Baseball's Clown Prince
That'd be Max Patkin, who was profiled by Steve Wulf for SI back in 1988:...
The Kennedys And Their Goddamn Football, Fer Chrissake
Everyone's talking about JFK these days, and why not? He and his messed-up brothers from that twisted, doomed family certainly had style, even if the lads were — by and large — narcissists congenitally addicted to strange. Style. It's a slippery thing. Here, for example, is a picture of Jack tossing...
Candy
Here's Gary Cartwright's classic 1976 Texas Monthly story on Candy Barr:...
This Guy Yells At Girls All Day, But It's Cool
In September 1965, LIFE magazine profiled a man named Bill Horan, a World War II vet who spent his days yelling at young women. That's not all he did, though. He also instilled the sort of character traits one might expect from a former paratrooper — tenacity, discipline, resilience — through cheerl...
The Coach Who Exploded
Jonathan Mahler's latest for the Times Magazine is about basketball coach Mike Rice:...
The Truth According To Shoeless Joe
As told to Furman Bisher for Sport magazine back in 1949:...
The Cobra
Here's Roy Blount, writing in Sports Illustrated about Parker back in the spring of 1979:...
Joe Frazier Was Cooler Than Ali. Discuss.
Joe Frazier died two years ago today. Now is as good a time as any to pay tribute to the former champ through a single photograph that best captured the unbridgeable distance between the two premier fighters of the age — a picture made at the very moment when the rivalry between Ali and Smokin' Joe ...
The Old Man And The River
Here's a favorite: Pete Dexter's 1981 Esquire story on Norman Maclean:...
Maybe This Is Why UCLA Hoops Once Sucked?
It's been two decades since they won an NCAA title. The glory years of John Wooden's titanic career are faded California dreams. But UCLA remains a nationally ranked team each and every season. This 1945 photograph, meanwhile, might help explain why Bruins hoops endured losing records for so many ye...