The NBA has seen its shifts over time, some trends become the standard, others cast aside, why?
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And just cause, here's a baker's dozen of my favorite BASW stories over the years:
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If you've never read it, Michael Lewis' 2004 New York Times magazine story, "The Eli Experiment" is a good one:
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Check out "Kids Not Poor in Spirit," a story about pickup baseball in Havana written by Bonnie DeSimone for the Chica…
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Michael Lewis isn't just a disturbingly prolific journalist who elevated Billy Beane to mythic status. He's also a…
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The much-delayed Moneyball film finally pops into your area cinemaplex today, marking one of nerds' few victories in…
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Moneyball, the long-delayed film adaptation of Michael Lewis's book about Paul DePodesta's TI-89 and Jeremy Brown's…
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Every week, I'll excerpt a handful of stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime —…
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Michael Lewis, author of the book that is currently being butchered at a theater near you, reports that…
For those in the dark, this is the movie version of Michael Lewis' book about Baltimore's No. 1 draft pick Michael…
The Sony Pictures executive who pulled the plug on Moneyball says that Steven Soderbergh changed the original script…
It looks like Moneyball might not be coming to the big screen anytime soon because director Steven Soderbergh…
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Break out the baseball puns! Columbia has dropped Steven Soderbergh's Moneyball adaptation like an overvalued,…
Under Billy Beane, the Oakland A's won by scraping together undervalued assets. Since the rest of baseball has…
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An interesting Q&A with Michael Lewis covers Moneyball ("The A's have no intellectual advantage, as evidenced by…
Ron Zook had a busy Wednesday afternoon. First, he went to the Chicago Mercantile exchange. Then, he channeled his…
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"Daddy has a small penis!" That's according to his toddler daughter, who likes to let everyone at her day care…
As expected, there's been a lot of talk generated by that Shane Battier piece—talk that will continue until Michael…
It took me the entire weekend and most of Monday, but I finally got through Michael Lewis' epic deconstruction of…